Rattan Harvest

Rattan ready for harvest will show special characteristics, such as yellow stems, fallen leaves, black or yellow-black thorns, and the midrib has come off and does not wrap the stem.   Harvesting rattan can be said to be quite difficult, because it requires skills to climb large trees where it Read more…

rattan raw material protection policy

Before the rattan export policy was implemented in 1986, many stems were harvested commercially to be shipped to Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, America and European countries. At that time, Indonesia was the world’s largest rattan-producing country, although the national processing industry had not yet developed.   Then, after the issuance Read more…

Types of rattan in Indonesia

There are eight types of rattan in Indonesia, namely, calamus, khortalsia, daemonorops, plectocomia, ceratolobus, plectocomiopsis, calospatha and myrialepis. There are 8 types of rattan consisting of approximately 306 species in Indonesia which have been identified and spread. Of the total that have been identified, approximately 50 species have been collected, Read more…