Durian. Southeast Asia’s largest handicraft and houseware exhibition, the Jakarta International Handicraft Trade Fair (Inacraft) resumed its 23rd edition on Sunday after its five-day event at Jakarta Convention Centre.
There were 1,118 tenants from micro, small and medium size enterprises participated at the 23rd Inacraft 2023. And almost 82 percent of them are members of the Association of Exporters and Producers of Indonesian Handicraft (Asephi).
Asephi is the organizer of the event in cooperation with some government agencies and state-owned banks.
Under the theme “The Authentic South Sulawesi – From Smart Village to Global Market”, the event was not only about trade fair but the organizer also provided workshops, talk shows as well as competitions.
Some participants told thebigdurian that purchasing power of visitors at this year Inacraft was lower if compared to previous years before the pandemic Covid-19 occurred.
The organizer targeted 170,000 visitors to visit the trade fair and to expected purchase value to reach 145 billion rupiah or about 9.4 million US dollar.
