Teak Patio Furniture Wholesaler

Jepara is a small town in the province of Central Java, Indonesia. Jepara is on the north coast of Java, north-east of Semarang, not far from Mount Muria. It is also the main town of the district of Jepara, which has a population of about 1 million.

In the sixteenth century, Jepara was an important port; in early 1513, its king, Yunnus led an attack against Portuguese Malacca. His force is said to have been made up of one hundred ships and 5000 men from Jepara and Palembang but was defeated. Between 1518 and 1521 he apparently ruled over Demak. The rule of Ratu (’Queen’) Kalinyamat in the latter sixteenth century was, however, Jepara’s most influential. Jepara again attacked Malacca in 1551 this time with Johor but was defeated, and in 1574 besieged Malacca for three months.It was the site of an English Fort in the 1600s. It is the birthplace of Indonesian national heroine Kartini

Contemporary Jepara
The population is almost entirely Javanese and over 95% Muslim. In the 16th century it was an independent kingdom, and was twice burned by the Dutch. As a pesisir (’coastal’) area many traders from around the world landed in Jepara centuries ago. As a result, some of Jepara’s resident have at part European, Chinese, Arabs, Malay or Bugis ancestry.The town is renowned its furniture industry. The production of teak furniture, employs approximately 80,000 people in the town, working in a large number of mainly small workshops. The trade has brought considerable prosperity to Jepara, well above the average for Central Java. Since there is a large export trade, the fall in the value of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar and other currencies has probably led to an increase in income for the [furniture makers]. Jepara is also well known for a distinct fruit named Durian Petruk

How to visit Jepara
Jepara is a small town north of Semarang, the capital of Central Java province. It takes 45 minutes air plane trip from Jakarta or Bali to Semarang. When you arrive at the Bandara Ahmad Yani, the Semarang’s airport, take a taxi and tell the driver you would like to go to Jepara. The trip to Jepara takes 2 hours time.

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