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Plaited Bamboo from Bangli

Since the 1980’s, plaited bamboo handicrafts have been a characteristic local product from Bangli. It is fairly standard in shape, design, pattern and also market segment. The main consumers are local people. Available products are household implements, like kukusan, bakul, nampan, sidi wakul. Through the development of the tourism world, plaited bamboo products of Bangli became more widely known amongst the people. 

I Ketut Darmaja (45), from Kayubihi, Bangli, has been a plaited bamboo craftsman for ten years . He noted that design modifications, patterns and product shape have really determined the development of the bamboo handicraft industry in his village environment.
“If the products are monotonous, it is impossible to penetrate the outside market segment or the export market,” he explained. So since the 1990’s he has been introducing new designs and types of implements to change the image of bamboo handicraft products from Bangli.
Darmaja now owns more than 70 kinds of plaited bamboo products with different shapes and designs. At first it was very hard to introduce his products to consumers especially the hotels and restaurants in Sanur and Nusa Dua.
Now, Bangli’s plaited bamboo products are well known and widely used. Darmaja said his products are often used as interior equipment, for exteriors, hotel set-ups, household equipment, souvenir items and many other equipment, like trash bins, which not only functions as garbage place, but also as a part of the interior arrangement with artistic design. The products are in the forms of lamp stands, bags, tissue boxes, frames, towel holders, pen boxes, and many other items that can be found in hotel rooms, restaurants, private houses or office buildings.

Bamboo Handicraft Center of Bangli 
There are a few places that are commonly known as central bamboo cane places in Bangli Regency, such as Kayubihi, Banjar Tanggahan, Sulahan, and other villages like