Indonesia is one of famous and prospective country on producing furniture. The data from Ministry of Industry states that export performance of Indonesian furniture industry in the last three years shows a positive trend: US$ 1.60 billion in 2016, US$ 1.63 billion in 2017 and US$ 1.69 billion in 2018 – gbgindonesia,2018.

Meanwhile, furniture exports rose 9.41 percent year-on-year (yoy) to $1.12 billion in the first seven months of this year. But, Indonesia Government confident to reach $2billion export value this year. 

Regarding to the data, Indonesia still become potential source to import furniture. Hence, not all Indonesia Furniture Manufacturer provide same quality standards and service. as potential buyer, in order to avoid any loses and disadvantages, you need to know essentials things about furniture industry in Indonesia.

May this guide will help you to get more sight when buying or import furniture in Indonesia.

For those who never import furniture from Indonesia or who has already experienced. This section may make it clear understanding about what you need to consider and step to buy and import furniture in Indonesia.

Find certified legal company. For wooden furniture, make sure furniture manufacturers and suppliers have legal SVLK certified. It standard procedures of legality from Indonesia governments to export wood furniture.

Arrange properly the goods you will buy/import. In common, importing furniture from Indonesia needs to be 20HC or 40HC containers. You can also do consolidation of mix items within manufacturers to fulfill the containers. But most of them still requested to minimum order of full container.

Considering shipping terms. Common agreement of shipping terms are FOB or exwork. FOB (Free on Board) is a term that manufacturers will give price quote based on delivering cost to the nearest port. It means buyer needs to pay for the shipping cost from port until the destination point. The advantage is buyer can decide own freights carrrier with best prices and has more control of the shipping. This terms is most used by international buyers. EXW (Exwork) is a terms that manufacturer/supplier don’t involve in any transportation cost and risk. Means that buyer needs to pay all of transportation from from warehouse of manufacturer until final destination. This terms is risky if buyer doesn’t have any insurance.

Payments Terms. Most of furniture manufacturers are willing to have 30-50% deposit. And the rest is after copy B/L documents is released.