Badung Craft Products Potential to Penetrate China’s Market
Economic and trade cooperation between Indonesia and the Bamboo Curtain country are opened widely for further development. The relationships are not only developed through large-scale industry and tourism but also through the craft industry.Such condition was described when the Regent of Badung Anak Agung Gde Agung together with the Chairman of the Badung House, Made Sumer, and Chairperson of the Badung Handicraft Council (Dekranasda) Mrs. Ratna Gde Agung made a visit to Badung crafters sent to join the Shanghai Expo 2010 last weekend in Shanghai, China. The craftsmen under development of Dekranasda Badung participating in the expo included painters, sculptors and coin sculptors.
The Regent Gde Agung explained in person about the folk craft industry and Badung tourist destinations to residents and buyers in China that rapid developing China’s economy within the past few years was a very potential market for the marketing of various craft products of the Badung Regency.
According to him, the cooperation and economic relations between China and Indonesia had been developing very rapidly in various sectors. Especially for the local economy of Badung, such cooperation had been developed through tourism sector. Later on, marketing of the craft products posed a further effort to enhance the economic benefits of the economic and trade relations between the two countries for the sake of Badung people.
“In keeping with the progress of China’s economy growing stronger, and even now ranked the second in the world, then the purchasing power of the community is getting larger. As a result, more and more Chinese citizens traveled overseas and collected various objects of art. It is definitely a niche that we want to take advantage for marketing the diverse crafts produced by the community of Badung Regency. Based on the participation in Shanghai Expo, apparently the marketing opportunity of Badung craft products is very widely open that should be achieved through regular promotion,” he added.
Yao Rui, Deputy Director of China Pavilion as the organizer of the Expo Shanghai 2010 praised and appreciated the role of Badung Regency in that international event. According to him, Indonesian pavilion provided a very unique nuance, especially with the presence of Badung craft products that were not solely yielded by machine, but also by strikingly human skill of the craftsmen. His party had confidence the event could enhance the trade cooperation between the two countries, and increasingly opened the trade potential beyond the existing sectors that had been running.
Related to the appreciation of the organizer, the Regent Gde Agung also said that his party was satisfied with the event drawing a great interest of Chinese citizens to visit the Badung Regency and the marketing of craft products of Badung community.
On that occasion the Regent of Badung Gde Agung through Director of the Indonesian Pavilion, Widarma, gave bonus to the seven millionth visitor of Chinese citizen making a visit to the Indonesian Pavilion, particularly Badung Regency, in the form of hotel voucher to stay in one of the hotels in Badung Regency, Bali, for 3 days 2 nights.
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Badung Wins the Tenth Transportation Award
Badung Regency under leadership of duo A.A. Gde Agung and I Ketut Sudikerta increasingly show off brilliant achievement. At the beginning of the second tenure of their leadership, Badung Regency managed to inscribe gold ink with the highest achievement in the field of orderly traffic and urban transportation in the national forum through the Wahana Tata Nugraha (WTN) trophy.Kuta belonging to Middle Town category represented the Badung Regency in the event the Orderly Traffic and Urban Transportation competition and could win the award for the tenth time. Previously, Kuta ever won the same awards in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
WTN trophy of this year constituted the result of the assessment held in 2009 and handed over in Mataram Room of the Office of Ministry of Transportation of the RI in Jakarta Tuesday (Sep 28) by the Minister of Transportation, Freddy Numbery and received by the Head of Badung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Services, I Made Sutama, representing the Regent of Badung.
Head of Badung Transportation, Communications and Informatics, Made Sutama, explained that the award achieved had passed through the long process of observation and administrative selection along with field assessment.
In addition, it was also assessed the level of discipline society in the matter of orderly traffic and adherence to use the safety belt and helmet for motorcycle riders, human resources condition and capabilities in transportation field as well as the level of community participation in improving and developing the transportation systems.
And the no less important was the mature planning document in the field of transportation development as well as political will and strong commitment of the local government. In addition, the success was inseparable from the role of other transportation stakeholders to realize the orderly, safe, secure, comfortable transportation capable of supporting an efficient and effective movement.
Furthermore, the Head of Badung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Services added that the success of Badung Regency to win the WTN award was not solely the success of the Badung Regency itself, but also the success of Badung society in the whole. It was due to the public participation so that it could be achieved. “On that account, we’d like express our profound gratitude to the role of society in the field of traffic rules and thankfulness to God for His grace,” said Sutama.
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