INDONESIA’S TRADITIONAL TEXTILES NEED RECOGNITION, INVESTMENTS, SAY EXPERTS
July 1st, 2016
INDONESIA’S hand-made traditional textile sector, especially its famous batiks, is lagging behind growth on its large scale machine-printed batik motifs on apparel and textiles, industry experts have warned. And this is a pity, given this potentially lucrative high end production has not been recognised for its true potential value on the international market, they have said.
“The government does not distinguish between traditional batiks and machine printed batiks in its export data,” a spokesperson from the Indonesia’s textile association, Asosiasi ...
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