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Indonesian Member Unit--PT. Sutra Alam Nusantara Visited ISU Secretariat

Time:2019-05-09 Source:ISU Secretariat

On April 29, 2019, Mr. Koentjahro Widjaja, director of PT. Sutra Alam Nusantara and his delegation went to Hangzhou, China to visit ISU secretariat. Mr. Li Jilin, chairman of ISU, met with the delegation at the meeting room of Cathaya mansion. Mr. Qian Guoming, vice-president of ISU member unit--Zhejiang Cathaya International Co., Ltd., and office staff of ISU secretariat accompanied the meeting.

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Chairman Li Jilin welcomed the visit of director Koentjahro Widjaja and his delegation. He gave a detailed introduction to the background and the work carried out since ISU establishment, including organized regional silk industry and cultural exchanges many times, convened ISU Members Assembly and ISU Chairman Enlarged Meeting, held the Seminar on New Development Trends of World Silk Industry, and the Belt and Road Forum for International Silk, organized China Hangzhou Silk Boutique Exhibition during French Silk Festival, and established five professional committees for History Culture, Fashion Design, Education Research, Technical Innovation and Trade Manufacture. Chairman Li Jilin issued an invitation to director Koentjahro Widjaja on the important activities of 2019 Vietnam-International Silk and Brocade Culture Festival and 2019 International Silk Union Members Assembly. He hoped that Indonesian member unit would actively participate.

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Director Koentjahro Widjaja introduced the development situation of sericulture in Indonesia. It is suitable for sericulture because of comfortable climate and intensive labor, mainly based on family workshop mode. Each year, 400-500 tons of white raw silk is imported from China, Singapore and other countries. The quality is concentrated on 3A-4A grade, mainly used for local traditional clothing manufacturing. At present, Indonesia still uses vertical reeling machine and traditional hand weaving. With the support of Indonesian government, PT. Sutra Alam Nusantara actively explores large-scale mulberry sericulture. The existing sericulture trial base of more than 70 acres has achieved phased results with the support of the Chinese sericulture technical team such as Chinese Academy Of Agricultural Sciences. This time came to China, communicating with ISU secretariat and ISU member units, he hoped to combine Chinese development opportunity of Belt and Road strategy, strengthen cooperation, and realize the leap-forward development of Indonesian silk industry. Director Koentjahro Widjaja added that the company will actively support the ISU work and enhance mutual exchanges.

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PT. Sutra Alam Nusantara trial base

Finally, the two sides conducted in-depth discussions on the development trend of international silk industry. Director Koentjahro Widjaja said that he hopes to strengthen the communication and cooperation with other member units through the platform of ISU. Chairman Li Jilin said that the ISU is a platform for dialogue and communication for the international silk industry. ISU will always practice the principle of “communication and cooperation, development with concerted efforts” and provide good service for member units.