Export gallery to open in Denpasar

Export gallery to open in Denpasar

JAKARTA (JP): A Jakarta-based trading company, PT Mega
Milenia, will open the Indonesian Export Gallery (IEG) in
Denpasar, Bali, which will display a wide range of handicrafts
and furniture, on Saturday.

Chairman of the Jakarta branch of the Indonesian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (Kadin Jaya), Pungky Bambang Purwadi, said
on Thursday that about 100 small and medium-scale companies would
display their products in the permanent exhibition center.

"The gallery will run as an integrated promotion center which
will connect producers and potential buyers through online
computer networks with Kadin Jaya and the World Trade Center in
Jakarta," Pungky said.

He said Denpasar was chosen as the first site for the IEG
because Bali was a famed tourist destination.

"We are looking for the possibility of opening similar
exhibition galleries in other cities in cooperation with local
chambers of commerce," Pungky added.

IEG's operational manager Khozin told The Jakarta Post that
his company also planned to open exhibition galleries in Jakarta
and Batam Island.

Mega director Yudianto Tri said an exhibitor in the Bali
gallery was charged a monthly rental of only Rp 390,000 (US$60)
per square meter.

Yudianto said IEG would act as mediator between exporters and
foreign buyers, and would cooperate with the Indonesian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, World Trade Center and other trading
associations to gather and disseminate market information.

"But the exhibitors in the gallery will conduct the
transactions themselves," he added.

About 40 percent of the exporters taking part in the Bali
gallery are from Jakarta. The remainder are from Sumatra, Central
Java, Kalimantan and other provinces in eastern Indonesia. (01)