Vice President Jusuf Kalla has opened Indonesian handicraft expo Inacraft 2016 held from today to April 24, 2016 in Jakarta Convention Center, Senayan, Jakarta.
The largest Indonesian handicraft expo is participated by over 1,400 handicraft companies, consist of both manufacturers and exporters from 34 provinces in Indonesia that occupy 1,333 stands.
The expo has seen an increase in individual participants with 849 stands. There are also 359 agency stands, 117 SOE stands and eight foreign participant stands from Singapore, Japan, Pakistan, Nepal, India and Syria.
Adopting the theme “From Smart Village to Global Market”, Inacraft tries to facilitate Indonesian handicraft products to step up the level and standard of Indonesian handicraft products.
The handicrafts being exhibited among others are various textile handicrafts such as batik, weaves, embroideries, songket, ikat weaving and various accessories, wooden handicrafts such as statues, carved furnitures, educational toys, jewelries from gold, silver and gem stones.
This year, Inacraft provides free shuttle buses from a number of shopping malls and airport to the expo site, among others, Margocity, Mal Taman Anggrek and Sumarecon Mall Bekasi.