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The current price of teak wood is not proportional to its qualityand it's helping small-scale businesses in Jepara go to the wall.

August 10, 2004

THESE days furniture warehouses in Jepara, Central Java, look like they are waiting for a mystery episode for television to be filmed. The place looks like a ghost town. For the past two years, the teak wood carving industry seems to have lost blood. According to the Executive Director of the Indonesian Association of Furniture and Handicrafts (Asmindo), Sae Tanangga Karim, 60 percent of approximately 3,500 units of small furniture making ind

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