REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR - Ceramic exports in Bali increased by 38.80 percent in the January-August period to 1.03 million USD from 744.11 thousand USD in the same period last year.

A year-on-year comparison revealed that the ceramic exports rose by 35.81 percent in volume to 298,485 units in the first eight months of the year from 219,776 units, Chief of the Central Statistics Office (BPS) in Bali, Panasunan Siregar said on Saturday.

Singapore led the market for Balinese ceramics, having purchased 61.92 percent of the overall exports. It was followed by the US (10.81 percent), Australia (4.22 percent), Spain (3.10 percent), Britain (1.95 percent), Japan (1.82 percent), Italy (1.09 percent), Hong Kong (0.48 percent), and France (0.88 percent).

Ceramic products are one of the 17 types of commodities produced by household industries in the province. The Balinese ceramic handicraft industry witnessed its golden era in the 1990s, owing to the technology invented by Anak Agung Ngurah Oka, who is currently a lecturer at the School of Arts and Design at Udayana University in Bali. Balinese ceramics are a combination of various elements of art that attract foreign customers.

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