UNIQUELY CARVED PENS FROM SUBANG WEST JAVA

In Subang-West Java a local resident makes use of unused bamboo stalks to create uniquely carved pens. Atam Hermawan is a middle-aged resident of Kampung Cilimus of The Cisaat village in Ciater-Subang who is found of traditional handicrafts. Finding unused bamboo stalks he transformed the waste into artistic pens.

Assisted by his wife Atam collects the waste bamboo stalks and cut them into shorter pieces before having them soaked in a whitening chemical substance. The bamboo pens are later carved with a type of soldering iron. Atam noted he can produce up to one hundred (100) pens per day. The pen is sold at six hundred (600) to one thousand (1.000) rupiah per piece. The products have been marketed to places outside The Java Island as well as to foreign countries such as Malaysia and Australia.