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Ditjen PEN/MJL/02A/I/2016 January ExportNews INDONESIA Indonesia’sBatik Overwhelming Heritage What's Inside One of Indonesia’s cultural richness is its awesome traditional fabrics, created by local craftsmen in various provinces with batik being the most well-known. There are still many other beautiful ethnic fabrics in this country. Therefore, this edition of Export News provides huge information on this cultural heritage, which also provides economic potential to increase the welfare of Indonesian people. Export News January 2016 1 EDITOR’S DESK Advisor : Dear awesome readers, Nus Nuzulia Ishak Happy New Year! Here we are in the year of 2016. In this first month, we wish you already have determined new goals to be achieved. We believe trade relations between Indonesia and Editor in Chief : its trading partners can be further improved. Tuti Prahastuti To begin with, the January edition of Export News provides information about the awesome Indonesian batik. This fabric has obtained international recognition from the UNESCO as Managing Editor : one of the world’s cultural heritages. RA. Marlena In addition to the cultural aspect, batik also has economical aspect that generates additional income for local residents, Editor : mostly the craftsmen to improve their welfare. This increase in welfare will in turn provide positive impact for Indonesia Sugiarti as a nation. The development of batik industry has eventually enhanced the image of Indonesia by global consumers. Writer : Besides batik, Indonesia also has other beautiful traditional Roesfitawati fabrics from various provinces, such as rangrang from Lombok, tapis from Lampung, ulos from North Sumatera, songket from West Sumatera, sasirangan from South Kalimantan and many Design : others. It is expected that these local ethnic fabrics will also gain the recognition from the UNESCO as the world’s invaluable Dewi heritage. As an effort to promote the variety of Indonesia’s traditional Editorial Addresses : fabrics, the Adiwastra Nusantara exhibition will be held on March 23-27 at Jakarta Convention Center in Jakarta. This DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF event was first organized in 2008. This year, in accordance to NATIONAL EXPORT DEVELOPMENT the implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the Adiwastra Nusantara exhibition will also display traditional Ministry of Trade of The Republic of Indonesia fabrics from other nations in the Southeast Asia region. Jl. MI. Ridwan Rais No. 5 To sum up, the government and entrepreneurs must Jakarta 10110 – Indonesia collaborate cooperatively to explore the economic potentials Phone : +62 21 3858171 from the existing resources. This way, the citizens will reap economic benefits and at the same time improving the Fax : +62 21 23528652 country’s economic level. Email : [email protected] Website : http://djpen.kemendag.go.id Thank you. Published by : DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF NATIONAL EXPORT DEVELOPMENT Ministry of Trade of The Republic of Indonesia Ditjen PEN/MJL/XXVI/01/2016 2 Export News January 2016 Ditjen PEN/MJL/05/I/2015 January ExportNews INDONESIA Table of Contents Indonesia’sBatik Overwhelming Heritage What's Inside One of Indonesia’s cultural richness is its awesome traditional fabrics, created by local craftsmen in various provinces with batik being the most well-known. There are still many other beautiful ethnic fabrics in this country. Therefore, this edition of Export News provides huge information on this cultural heritage, which also provides economic potential to increase the welfare of Indonesian people. Export News January 2016 1 02 Editor’s Desk 03 Table of Contents 04 Hot Issue Batik is only one of numerous traditional fabrics which come from Indonesian 06 Market Review Batik 10 List of Exporters 11 Commercial Attaches 12 Indonesian Trade Promotion Center (ITPC) Export News January 2016 3 Hot Issue Batik is only one of numerous traditional fabrics which come from Indonesian. There are still a number of other ethnic fabrics such as rangrang, ikat woven, tapis, songket, ulos, sasirangan, besurek, and many others. Batik The huge variety of Indonesia beautiful Synergizing the ASEAN Economic traditional fabrics will be displayed in a Community nation-wide exhibition, the Adiwastra The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Nusantara. This event is an annual agenda has already started in December 2015. that attracts visitors from Indonesia and In this era, all entrepreneurs in ASEAN abroad. This year, the Adiwastra Nusantara member countries must be prepared to will be held on March 23-27 at the Jakarta compete with other businesspeople from Convention Center in Jakarta. their neighboring nations. Only the best will be the winner. Only superior product Adiwastra Nusantara was first held in will reap the benefits from a huge single 2008. At the 9th edition in March, the market of some 500 million people. exhibition will have a theme of “Endless Creation in Fibers and Patterns”. Based However, in addition to the trade on the theme, the Adiwastra Nusantara performance, it will also be awesome Foundation keen to explore and promote to gather all wonderful fabrics from a number of Indonesian traditional fabrics 10 ASEAN member countries. Thus, in from all provinces. More importantly, the organizing the 2016 Adiwastra Nusantara, fabrics are designed and produced the by the organizing committee also encourage small and medium enterprises (SMEs). craftsmen from 9 other ASEAN members 4 Export News January 2016 Hot Issue Batik is only one of numerous traditional fabrics which come from Indonesian. There are still a number of other ethnic fabrics such as rangrang, ikat woven, tapis, songket, ulos, sasirangan, besurek, and many others. The huge variety of Indonesia beautiful traditional fabrics will be displayed in a nation-wide exhibition, the Adiwastra Nusantara. This event is an annual agenda that attracts visitors from Indonesia and abroad. This year, the Adiwastra Nusantara will be held on March 23-27 at the Jakarta Convention Center in Jakarta. Adiwastra Nusantara was first held in 2008. At the 9th edition in March, the exhibition will have a theme of “Endless Creation in Fibers and Patterns”. Based on the theme, the Adiwastra Nusantara Foundation keen to explore and promote a number of Indonesian traditional fabrics from all provinces. More importantly, the fabrics are designed and produced the by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Synergizing the ASEAN Economic Community The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) has already started in December 2015. In this era, all entrepreneurs in ASEAN member countries must be prepared to compete with other businesspeople from their neighboring nations. Only the best will be the winner. Only superior product will reap the benefits from a huge single market of some 500 million people. However, in addition to the trade performance, it will also be awesome to gather all wonderful fabrics from 10 ASEAN member countries. 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The original batik uses a and is created by human resources with specific device called canting to incise liquid wax skill, by using ‘canting’ and/or stamp to carve a called ‘malam’. The process is conducted manually by a craftsman, which took hot liquid wax called ‘malam’ as the color several days or even weeks. Afterwards,