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Press Release:
For Immediate Release
indo.com Launches Online Arts & Crafts Trading Community
JAKARTA - October 18, 2000 - indo.com, Indonesia's
international gateway, announces today the launch of its online Arts &
Crafts trading community, which can be accessed on the Internet at http://craft.indo.com.
This trading community portal is designed to be the meeting place for
buyers and sellers of high quality Indonesian arts & crafts products.
Through this centralized marketplace, producers of arts & crafts products
in Indonesia can reach out to potential buyers worldwide, and in turn,
buyers can find comprehensive information about qualified sources for
a broad range of Indonesian arts & crafts products.
craft.indo.com, a B-2-B business unit of indo.com,
is launched to coincide with the Resource Indonesia Export Product Expo
2000 (PPE-200) and APEC Trade Fair IV at the Jakarta Fair Ground in Kemayoran.
In addition to having a presence at Hall E # 36 throughout the event that
will run from the 18th until the 22nd October 2000, craft.indo.com will
also conduct an e-commerce clinic twice daily for interested sellers and
buyers.
craft.indo.com's Technical Adviser, Dennis Walker,
says that craft.indo.com is a very attractive online trading mechanism
for producers of Indonesian arts & crafts products, especially small
and medium size enterprises (SMEs).
"craft.indo.com is a unique concept because of three things. First,
the community of craft.indo.com consists of select group of sellers, backed
with in-depth information content about arts & crafts products such
as furniture craft, metal craft, textile art, craft gallery and fine art,"
adds Dennis. "Secondly, craft.indo.com
provides additional value added services for buyers, such as prequalification
of sellers, to ensure that the parties involved in the community are serious
parties." Additionally, indo.com has developed its own proprietary
technology to help facilitate the community and marketplace of craft.indo.com.
For example, indo.com deploys technology that allows sellers to create
smart catalogues of products that they are offering, enabling buyers to
quickly search for products that they are interested in. Communications,
from basic inquiry to procurement order, can also be facilitated online
using indo.com's technology.
The industry response to this concept has been tremendously positive.
In the past few weeks, while completing the content and the design, leading
producers of Indonesian arts & crafts products have lined up to join
the community of craft.indo.com. To date, over 75 sellers have signed
up, from SMEs like Pernique Gallery, Pita Seni, and Reliable Metal to
leading companies like Lumbung Arts, Batubulan Painting and Hadiprana,
from the furniture centers of Ciputat and Kemang to the jewelry center
of Yogyakarta and Celuk in Bali.
In closing, Dennis would like to invite all producers of Indonesian arts & crafts products to take advantage of the services offered by craft.indo.com. The services are immediately available online, and the cost to join the community starts at an incredibly affordable fee of only Rp. 500,000 for the whole year.
About Indo.com
Established since 1995, indo.com, or more popularly known as Bali Online,
has taken the lead in Internet travel to Bali and Indonesia, and in providing
content about Indonesian Arts & Crafts products. Deeply enmeshed in
the Internet, indo.com enjoys over 14,000 links from other sites pointing
to its site, from the world's largest sites like America Online as well
as from the biggest travel companies like American Express and SABRE of
American Airlines. indo.com has a large number of audience, accumulating
to over 8 million people, generating hits around 10 million per month
and reservation requests amounting to 30,000 room nights in 1999.
indo.com operates in two cities, Bali and Jakarta. Backed by a team of almost 100 professionals, the company strives to provide the highest quality services and products for travelers to Indonesia. For additional information on indo.com and its services please visit our Web site at http://www.indo.com or call Maya/Franky at (62-21) 798-4290.
