Crocodile leather crafts are long used in the world's fashion industry. The harder and strong skin advantage makes the crocodile skin material much sought to be used as a variety of objects such as bags, shoes, wallets and others.
In Indonesia, buaya leather crafts are already one of the most eastern cities in Indonesia. It is not difficult to feel for tourists visiting Merauke find a store that sells souvenirs of crocodile leather crafts.
But to make a crocodile leather craft takes a long time. Need the process as well as skill in processing the raw material of the crocodile skin to become a high economic value product.
Perajin prepares a dehydrated and further processed crocodile of products in Merauke, Papua.
Details of product range from crocodile skin in Merauke, Papua.
Unfortunately, although the craft of crocodile skin in Merauke is relatively a lot, but there is no contributor to supply raw materials. Perajin still rely on supply from outside the city such as Jayapura to get crocodile skin.
It is because of the crocodile is one of the animals protected under the Government Regulation No. 7 of 1999 About the Preservation of the Type of Plant and Satwa. Based on the regulation, including the category of Apendiks II CITES, namely the list of species that are not threatened, but may be threatened if the trade continues without the arrangement.
Meanwhile, the appointment of Merauke as one of the clusters of the National Sports Week (PON) XX Papua brought blessings for the craft of crocodile skin. Not a little of athletes and contingents shopping souvenirs of crocodile leather crafts in Merauke. The economic wheel of the UMKM squad is mainly the craftsman of the skin of the crocodile back to grate after this time the pandemi of COVID-19.
Deretan souvenir store that sells a variety of products in Merauke, Papua.
Group and banal campaigns to not buy aloe skin products that do not have holograms as an official product sign attached to the glass of souvenir shops in Merauke, Papua.
Merauke crocodile leather crafts have the potential as one of the leading creative economic industry sectors that develop in the future and directly impact on business players such as craftsmen, skin providers, to the owner of the Merauke specialty souvenir shops.
Photo and Text : Predipta Gover
Hologram is installed in the bag located in the souvenir store in Merauke, Papua, as the marker of the product's authenticity and made of crocodile skin from official suppliers.
The craft of crocodile skin,Jusni Hidayat, measure the crocodile skin before drawing the pattern and cutting it in Merauke, Papua.
The craft measures the crocodile skin before drawing the pattern and cutting it in Merauke, Papua.
The crocodile skin is characterized by a special numbered bracelet as a sign originated from the official catcher in Jayapura in a UMKM craft of crocodile skin in Merauke, Papua.
Perajin makes the wallet pattern on the crocodile skin in Merauke, Papua.
Perajin softens the purse of the crocodile skin in Merauke, Papua.
Buy skin craft sprays "cleaning" fluid to the wallet surface in Merauke, Papua.
The details of the crocodile skin purses are dried as a record in Merauke, Papua.
The bags and wallets made by crocodile skin after the painting process in Merauke, Papua.
Editor : Danika Wahyu
