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Indonesian leather products to potential customers is actually a community abroad, not domestically. Therefore, the purchasing power of the Indonesian people against skin products is still weak. At least, that’s what traders felt the local leather bag from Yogyakarta, Syaiful Malchan.

“Maybe if in Jakarta different, but if in quiet area, due to market leather products were in the outside community,” he said, Sunday (09/05/2010), on the sidelines of the exhibition of shoes and leather products, in Jakarta.

The same is also felt by businessmen leather, Hi Hwat. “Indeed we have often joined in the exhibition outside (the country) so that our products known to the international market,” he said.

Hi Hwat claimed, companies are often involved in exhibitions in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Bogota. Skin material products are now exported to Europe, America and Japan.

S just the same money with Hwat Hi, Saiful also explain their products rely heavily on overseas markets. “Back when I was often out of exports, profits can be 100 percent. Now at least 20 percent, because it does not export anymore,” he said.

Under the name A. Syahlan Collection, Saiful claimed in previous years he regularly sends his leather products to Japan, Taiwan, and Spain. He admitted that its sales to overseas raw materials stopped because the skin becomes increasingly expensive.(source kompas)

Raced In The Creative
Local leather products industry need to be more creative in the face of global competition. Improved quality should be a priority. Thus the Secretariat General of the Association submitted Indonesian footwear (Aprisindo), Binsar Marpaung.

“The entry of foreign products such as China should be addressed by improving the quality of local products,” he said, Sunday (05/09/2010), at the Shoe and Leather Products Exhibition 2010, Jakarta.

He also explains the need for the role of government and associations. “For instance, the government has helped restructure the engine in the form of incentives, this is also a form of protecting local products,” he said.

However, he thinks leather shoe industry still requires investments in the field of raw materials. “Exhibitions like this actually really helped the local shoe industry for introducing their products directly to customers with a facilitated industrial ministries and associations,” he told Kompas.com.

Meanwhile, the sales turnover of footwear and leather industries of Indonesia in First Quarter-2010 reached USD 4.6 trillion. This figure is up 10 percent compared to Quarter IV-2009. Meanwhile, the local shoe product actually been able to speak in the international market. Therefore, the target market of this sector’s exports in 2010 reached 2 billion U.S. dollars, up 11 percent over the previous year.