Japan and Vietnam as biggest competitors of Bali’s plait crafts

Japan and Vietnam as biggest competitors of Bali’s plait crafts


The plait handicrafts made in Bali get competitors from same product made in Japan and Vietnam. Both of the countries have better material quality if compared to same material from Bali. For instance, bamboo, up to these days Japan has many bamboo plants.

The Japanese bamboo has the nattier fiber and easy to plait, so that good for the material of plait handicrafts, the Director of Design Development Organization (DDO) Bali, I Made Raka Metra said recently.

According to him, up to these days Japan still the biggest competitors of plait handicraft made of bamboo and other materials. As well as Japan, Vietnam also as the competitor of plait handicrafts made in Bali. In Vietnam their government party support the craftsmen, so there the craftsmen able to produce many standard quality products.


“In produce some quality handicrafts, Vietnam’s craftsmen use technology. This make many foreign buyers very interested to purchase handicrafts made in Vietnam,” he said. “There is only one way to winning in this competition that is producing newly motifs and designs of handicraft.

The local designer and craftsmen is expected able to produce the newest design, because this early step to successful the marketing of the product. Therefore, let us competition to create the design with the high innovation,” he said.


Meanwhile, the Head of Foreign Trade Division of Trade and Industrial Office (Disperindag) Bali, N.W. Kusumawathi said, in period of January to June 2007 the value of Bali’s plait handicraft exports increase until 10 percent. While up to these days, the product was export to 70 states in the world.

“In period January- June 2007, the export value of plait handicraft exports to Japan reached US$ 309,699.89. This value is the highest if compared to the exports value of other countries, like Italy only US$ 177,148.16, USA US$172,296.77, German US$ 142,370.85, Finland US$ 119,862.42, Spain US$ 109,743.25, and Australia US$ 103,627.81,” she explained.

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Friday, December 10, 2010

Japan and Vietnam as biggest competitors of Bali’s plait crafts


The plait handicrafts made in Bali get competitors from same product made in Japan and Vietnam. Both of the countries have better material quality if compared to same material from Bali. For instance, bamboo, up to these days Japan has many bamboo plants.

The Japanese bamboo has the nattier fiber and easy to plait, so that good for the material of plait handicrafts, the Director of Design Development Organization (DDO) Bali, I Made Raka Metra said recently.

According to him, up to these days Japan still the biggest competitors of plait handicraft made of bamboo and other materials. As well as Japan, Vietnam also as the competitor of plait handicrafts made in Bali. In Vietnam their government party support the craftsmen, so there the craftsmen able to produce many standard quality products.


“In produce some quality handicrafts, Vietnam’s craftsmen use technology. This make many foreign buyers very interested to purchase handicrafts made in Vietnam,” he said. “There is only one way to winning in this competition that is producing newly motifs and designs of handicraft.

The local designer and craftsmen is expected able to produce the newest design, because this early step to successful the marketing of the product. Therefore, let us competition to create the design with the high innovation,” he said.


Meanwhile, the Head of Foreign Trade Division of Trade and Industrial Office (Disperindag) Bali, N.W. Kusumawathi said, in period of January to June 2007 the value of Bali’s plait handicraft exports increase until 10 percent. While up to these days, the product was export to 70 states in the world.

“In period January- June 2007, the export value of plait handicraft exports to Japan reached US$ 309,699.89. This value is the highest if compared to the exports value of other countries, like Italy only US$ 177,148.16, USA US$172,296.77, German US$ 142,370.85, Finland US$ 119,862.42, Spain US$ 109,743.25, and Australia US$ 103,627.81,” she explained.

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