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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Indonesian Consumers potential skin products is actually a community abroad, not domestically. Therefore, the purchasing power of the Indonesian people against skin products is still weak. At least, that's what traders perceived the local leather bag from Yogyakarta, Syaiful Malchan.

"Maybe if in Jakarta different, but if in quiet area, due to market leather products were in the outside community," he said, Sunday (09/05/2010), on the sidelines of the exhibition of shoes and leather products, in Jakarta.

The same is also felt by businessmen leather, Hi Hwat. "Indeed we have often joined in the exhibition outside (the country) so that our products known to the international market," he said.

Hi Hwat claimed, companies are often involved in exhibitions in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Bogota. Skin material products are now exported to Europe, America and Japan.

S just the same money with Hwat Hi, Saiful also explain their products rely heavily on overseas markets. "Back when I was often out of exports, profits could be 100 percent. Now at least 20 percent, because it does not export anymore," he said.

Under the name A. Syahlan Collection, Saiful claimed in previous years he regularly sends his leather products to Japan, Taiwan, and Spain. He admitted that its sales to overseas raw materials stopped because the skin becomes increasingly expensive.