Event: Crafina 2015

An annual event, Crafina, is back participating in one of Jakarta’s event from October 7th until 11th at Jakarta Convention Center, Senayan.

Crafina is second biggest Indonesian craft exhibition once a year after the biggest, Inacraft. I was fortunate to come to the first day of the exhibition, where all the products still complete displayed so I still have a lot of options for sizes or colors of any product. The product are from all over Indonesia. This kind of event plays an important role to connect the small and medium enterprises with national and international market. Handicraft industry is one of the flagship product of creative industry, and they are the one who give big contribution in moving the economy.

Having a lot of small and medium enterprises is a sign of a good economic growth. So, instead of getting worry about our Rupiah, why don’t we learn something from all these small and medium enterprises that to use local material or our local natural resources and turned it into creative products. From year to year, the result of my observation of the product in handicraft exhibition, the quality is getting better and better especially in fashion industry. Well, quality is very important to make market attracted.

When I was browsing from aisle to aisle, I heard this music that caught my attention and led myself to found the source of this beautiful sound. There’s this man wearing full traditional clothes of West Kalimantan playing his Sape a wooden instrument with string. Sape was made from a one wooden logs, as you can see from the picture below. He carved the instrument by himself and made an image of an Enggang bird (Hornbill) at the end of the handle. And carves symbols of Fertility and properity.

He is Mr. Christian Mara, he is a musician and he made his own music instrument. He lives in a remote village like 6 hours walking from Jangkang districts (kecamatan) in West Kalimantan. He is quite a dedicated person in making music and a very passionate man. I found an information about him, you can click this link: http://www.tokohindonesia.com/biografi/article/287-wiki-tokoh/3127-seni-dayak-christian-mara

You thought attending Crafina is just like any other exhibition, but I surely amazed by Mr. Christian Mara. He is the star of this cultural exhibition. Don't worry sir, I'll help in promoting your music and your effort. I fully support you.
Crafina's last day would be on Sunday, 11th of October 2015. So, don't forget to come by and check cool things made in Indonesia. For us, since we are running a bed and breakfast business, we always need to find things for our household or knick knacks for our rooms interior. Because it is a great way to introduce our local handicraft to our foreign guest. -SK-