Leather Products RI Increasingly Shines On Kangaroo Country: http://inforial.bisnis.com/read/20150803/74/458670/produk-kulit-ri-makin-bersinar-di-negeri-kanguru/3 August 2015
Australia is one of countries with economic power that has resilience to the crisis as well as the country with high economic growth in the world. One industry that is growing in the country is the leather industry. However, the domestic leather industry suffered a setback over the last five years, due to declining demand from tannery plant; leather product factory for bags, suitcases, and so forth; as well as downstream industries, such as clothing and footwear.

The period of 2013-2014, imports of footwear made from leather by Australia covers 78.1% of the total footwear industry in the country. That number increased compared to the 2008-2009 period, reaching only 75.1%. The data shows the trend of imports of leather products Australia as a whole increased by approximately 10.5% during the 2009-2013 period. Indonesia's own ranks 9th as exporters of leather-based products, such as handbags, luggage and the like, to Australia, however, the average growth of products imported from Indonesia over the past five years was the highest at 22.1%. This indicates RI leather products have very bright prospects in the Australian market.

Craft genuine leather handbags: http://taskulitasli.com/?cat=136/17 June 2012
Genuine leather handbags handicraft industry began to flourish in Indonesia since the 1970's; in the upstream sector, a growth of 37 large and medium-sized manufacturers in 1975 to 112 in 1995. In 1975-1990 emerging centers such as the leather industry in Magetan, Garut, and Madison. In the same year an increasing number of plants of about 200 mills to 500 mills in the same time span.

Leather industry in Indonesia had declined in the periods 1998 to 2000, which in 1998 about 112 scale enterprise and small-scale enterprises by 400 businesses and in 2000 a decline in large-scale plant to 47 medium and small-scale factories to 125. The cause of the decline is the supply of raw materials decreased skin as most skins it is more profitable to export directly, not used for downstream industries in the country.

Entrepreneurs become entrepreneurs' craftsmen leather bag imitation leather craftsmen do but at first to maintain the continuity of the business as well as leather bags leather handbags imitation product now has its own market share promising. One of the central areas of leather in Indonesia is East Java, precisely in the District Tanggulangin Sidoarjo.