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Origin of Rattan Chair products

Rattan is a group of palms from the tribus of Calameae that has a climbing habitus, especially in Calamus, Daemonorops, and Oncocalamus. While Puak Calameae itself consists of about six hundred members. With its spreading regions in the tropical parts of Africa, Asia and Australasia.
While Into this folk include the Salacca clan, Metroxylon (eg rumbia / sagu), and the climbing Pigafetta, and traditionally not classified as rattan.

The rattan rod itself is usually slim with a diameter between 2-5cm, as well as long segments, not hollow, and most of it is protected by long, hard, sharp spines. Thorns themselves serve as a means of self-defense of herbivores, as well as help climbing, because rattan is not equipped with tendrils. One rattan can reach a length of hundreds of meters (wah-wah ..) The rattan rod removes water if it is slashed and can be used as a means of survival in the wild.

Most of the rattan comes from forests in Malesia, such as Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara. Indonesia supplies 70% of the world's rattan needs. While the rest of the market is filled by Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The growth of rattan is very fast and relatively easy to harvest and transfotation. This can be considered to help preserve forests, because people prefer to harvest rattan rather than wood.

Even so the common rattan used in the industry is not much. Some of the most commonly traded are just like Manau, Batang, Tohiti, Mandola, Tabu-Tabu, Suti, Sega, Symbol, Blubuk, Java, Bitter, Kubu, Track, Slimit, Worm, Semambu, and Pulut.

Before becoming a rattan chair, rattan has several processes: After cleansed from the thorny midrib, the rattan is to go through the stages for preservation and protected from the Blue Stain mushroom. Broadly / general there are two processes of processing rattan raw materials are:

1. Cooking with kerosene for medium / large rattan

2. Smoking with sulfur for small rattan.

Furthermore, rattan can be processed into various raw materials such as rattan chairs, rattan tables, Peel (Peel) / Sanded Peel, polished / semi-polished, made core, fitrit or star core. The center of the largest handicraft and rattan furniture industry in Indonesia is located in Cirebon.