Coconut Shell Craft from Tanjungsari Village Blitar City, Now Became Famous in Indonesia

Tenacity and persistence of Rofi to make craft of batok bags yields a results. Now his craft of batok bags is growing rapidly. The orders for batok bags from outside the region continue to flow every month, starting from Bali, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Aceh, Sulawesi, until Kalimantan.

Not only that, the development of technology also makes the marketing of batok bags reach overseas. He markets his batok bag through social media.

The impact of selling craft batok bags is many Indonesian workers abroad are ordering batok bags in their places to be sold overseas start from Hongkong, Singapore, Netherlands, until Russia.

The production of batok bags also continues to grow. Now, every day on average, he produces 50-75 batok bags. The number of workers also increased to reach 43 people.

The workers are his neighbors. The type of production also increase, not only bags, but also making key chains, tissue boxes, and lighting places.

The price of crafting Rofi’s batok bags is also relatively cheap start from IDR 50,000 to IDR 100,000 per seed. With initial debt capital of IDR 2 million, now the turnover of the business of Rofi’s batok bags reaches IDR 50 million per month. The turnover has not been deducted by the employee’s salary, raw material purchases, and other production coasts.

Rofi is grateful that his batok craft business is growing rapidly. However, he is more grateful to be able to create employment opportunities for unemployed neighbors. With the development of its business, automatically the workforce needed also increase.

"At least my initial intention to make a craft that benefited the surrounding community was realized. This is my shodaqoh in the hereafter," he said.

(sha)

Translator : Hesti Muqaromah Aini