Jepara Wooden Furniture as the supply resources of Indonesia Reproduction Furniture

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Jepara-town is the biggest supply-resources for Mahogany Furniture & Teak Furniture.

Most of Wooden Furniture, that been sold from Cities of: Bali, Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Semarang Solo and Surabaya, and other places of Indonesia are supplied from Jepara-town. Especially for the Reproduction Furniture in various European style of Replica Antique with its carving ornaments.

Jepara is the biggest "National center of carved wood furniture"in Indonesia.
Well known as "Carving town", where the Javanese ethnic as the majority and origin tribe in the town are blessed with the carving skill, It existing by descendants since 16th century.

This emerging sources were optimized by the English, Dutch, Australian and other westerners in 1985's. They converted the carving style into Replica antique for exporting Mahogany Furniture to Europe, it was "Chippendale style"as the first Antique Reproduction in Mahogany wood, that been produced in a mass production Industry scale, more than just a craft from villagers craftsman. The Hits of Chippendale's succes were followed by others style: Victorian, Queen Anne, Louis XV & XVI, Raccoco, Empire etc.

These European Patron of Replica Antique furniture had brought the knowledge of products and the collection for Jepara. Nowadays the products, the catalogues and photos were found and copies so abundant.
These two above resources are the main factors of: How Jepara was became a town of European Antiques reproduction furniture?!
Indeed, there are also many other resource factors that brought Jepara leading in Furniture business.

Jepara town in Statistic figure
Geographic: 1,000 Km2
People : 1,000,000
read more at :
http://www.jeparakab.go.id/index.php/2007092738/Potensi/Perindustrian/Negara-Tujuan-Ekspor.jpr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jepara
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabupaten_Jepara
http://hal.cirad.fr/cirad-00191168/

The Resources
Jepara furniture mostly are craftsmanship or handcrafted made with hand-tools or semi-machines. Only a few that been produced by full-machine

By statisic, year of 2005-2007 as below:
Craftsmen : 15,000
Registered company(furniture) : 3,223
Employer/worker : 120,000
Export range: 76 countries , 5 continents Worldwide
Export value : 100 Million USD per annual in average

Jepara-funiture, Supply resources :
Wood:
-Teak(Tectona G.),
-Mahogany(Swietenia Macrophylla),
-Mindi(Melia Azedarach L.) also
-Tropical fruit(=Mangoes, Durian, etc)
source of timber:
Plantation by State and private-sector,
sustainable resources.
http://hal.cirad.fr/cirad-00191168/en

Enterprises: (*)
38 Ex-patriarch or foreigner owned,
448 National or regional companies and
2,700s of local-traditional Small enterprises/private-sectors.
*: figure may change as dynamic variable factors
News to read :
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/06/15/jepara-administration-patents-99-wood-carving-motifs.html?t=1245216742