Article: RATTAN-PROCESING INDUSTRY HAUNTED BY CRISIS IN BASIC MATERIAL PROCUREMENT

Difficulties in procuring rattan, which is a side-product from the forest, have been increasingly serios. This has made certain parties pessimistic about the future prospects of Indonesia's rattan-processing industry. A number of rattan-processing plants in several centers of furniture production in Indonesia are said to have had to discontinue operations or to switch to other business lines such as garment manufacturing. As a matter of fact, the crisis in the procurement of rattan from domestic sources has lasted for quite some time, especially since regulations concerning rattan trading started to be applied, e.g. the regulation on the interisland transportation of ...

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