JAKARTA- indo.com yesterday launched its online arts and crafts trding community in a bid to pit buyersagaints sellers of Indonesia's famous arts and crafts products.
Dennis Walker, Managing Director of craft.indo.com, said the trading community portal was designed to provide a meeting place for buyers and sellers of high quality Indonesian arts and crafts products.
"Through this centralized marketplace, producers af arts nad crafts products in Indonesia can reach out to potential buyers worldwide, and in turn, buyers can find comprehensive information about qualified sources for a board range of Indoneisa arts and crafts products,"Walker said.
The service can be accessed on the Internet at http://craft.indo.com.
Craft.indo.com, was also launched yester day to coincide with the Resource Indoeisa Export Product Exppo 2000 (PPE-2000) and APEC Trade Fair Ground in Kemayoran.
Walker said tahat craft.indo.com is a very attractive online trading mechanism for producers of Indonesia arts and crafts products, especially for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). "craft.indo.com is a unique concept because of three things which the community of craft.indo.com seeks to do. The group consists of a select group of sellers, backed with in-depth information content abaout arts and crafts products such as furniture craft, metal craft, textile art, craft gallery and fine art, Walker said.
He added craft.indo.com provides additional value added services for buyers, such as pre-qualification of sellers, to ensure that the parties involved in the community and marketplace of craft.indo.com. ido.com deploys technology that they are interested in. Communications, from basic inquiry to procurement order, can also be facilitated online,"Walker said.

Media Name: Indonesian Observer
Date: October 19, 2000
Page: 6