Raw materials enough for furniture industry<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The furniture industry will have adequate raw
\nmaterials this year in spite of the government's policy of
\nlimiting tree cutting in natural forests, an executive said here
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
Deputy executive chairman of the Indonesian Furniture Industry
\nand Handicraft Association Soetrisno Fadali said, after the
\nopening of a furniture exhibition, that furniture manufacturers
\nhad diversified their raw materials to reduce their dependence on
\nsupplies from natural forests.<\/p>\n
Furniture factories currently used not only wood from forest
\nconcessionaires but also from farmers who supplied wood such as
\nbangkirai, nyato, sungkai and rubber.<\/p>\n
Soetrisno said wood from natural forests was mostly allocated
\nto plywood production.<\/p>\n
Director Bramantyo of PT Mediatama Binakreasi, the organizer
\nof the exhibition, said that based on a government report,
\nIndonesia's furniture exports increased to more than US$1 billion
\nin 1996 from $875 million in 1995.<\/p>\n
Soetrisno said Indonesia's export of rattan furniture was now
\nfacing tight competition from China, which produced similar
\nfurniture at lower cost.<\/p>\n
China sometimes used raw rattan smuggled out from Indonesia,
\nhe said.<\/p>\n
The government has banned the export of raw and semi-finished
\nrattan to promote the development of the furniture industry. But
\nthe export ban, which caused a price decline, has encouraged
\ncollectors to smuggle out rattan. (13)<\/p>",
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