In the furniture industry, exhibition is one of promotion strategy where numbers of furniture manufacturers, exporters meet their potential buyers from many countries.  In addition, IFFINA is one of the major exhibition in Indonesia which many to be the reference for buyers and manufacturers, especially furniture manufacturers and exporters from Indonesia.

This year the 4^th International Furniture & Craft Fair Indonesia or IFFINA 2011 will be held on 11^th – 14^th March 2011. It takes the same place of IFFINA 2010. The exhibition takes place in Jakarta International Expo at Kemayoran, Jakarta, Indonesia. All of IFFINA participants are producer, exporter, manufacturer, and wholesalers or retailers, small & medium enterprises of furniture and handicrafts industry in Indonesia. Wide selections of furniture will be presented by numbers of Indonesian furniture manufacturers and exporters, which always consider that quality is the number one requirement of all.

AQSA Living is one of the participants of IFFINA 2011 that will be our fourth opportunity to participate on IFFINA exhibition. We will present latest furniture collections made from finest wood material and the most recent is oak.  Our collection of metal leg furniture will also accomplish wide ranges of modern living furniture.

In IFFINA 2011 our booth is at Hall A (A3-055), you can meet us there with our brand new collection of wood furniture. Meet these entire participants in the exhibition where you could chance on the appropriate producers or suppliers. Do not miss this great opportunity!

Congratulation to all the winners of AQSA Living Furniture Design Competition 2010.After series of discussion, the judges have decided the winner whose are :

The Winners
1st winner.

Adi Santosa from Sleman – Indonesia
2nd winner.

Herry Abdul Basith from Yogyakarta – Indonesia
3rd winner.

Viswanadham Katta from Bangalore – India

All winners were attending the award presentation that was held in Surakarta, Central Java Indonesia on Thusday, 21 October 2010 in The Sunan Hotel in the AQSA Gathering; AQSA INDUSTRIAL PARK DESIGN COMPETITION “GREEN TECHNO-ECONOMY FURNITURE FACTORY”.

AQSA Living has release new collections of indoor furniture, which made in distinctive designs to meet the customers’ needs and demands. These collections are available in bedroom set, dining room set and living room set. These collections are Denali, Niagara, Tavira, Wabuff, Alabama, Himalaya, Ibiza and Madrid. Except the last four collections mentioned are AQSA Living previous collections that made in new finishing.

It can be seen in the Alabama collection. This collection re-produced in new finish, pieces of finest wood furniture with carved leaves on it as decoration. On the other hand, the brand new collections as well as made in distinctive design of furniture. Tavira collection provides simple and unique design with an ethnic touch on it. It will suitable both in modern or traditional style of house.
These collections absolutely provide fresh and distinctive indoor furniture to yours. These all are made in quality wood materials to present the finest collections ever. These collections are available in catalogs by request.

Feel free to request our catalog by filling in this form.

Exhibition considers as a means of promotion that commonly held in the expo center or other building. Thus, many of companies joint in the exhibition or trade fair. In this place, many of buyers and seller or re-seller is met, to meet their needs and market demand.

One of many international or national exhibitions that held in Indonesia is Trade Expo Indonesia, or in other name is PPE, which stands for Pameran Produk Ekspor. Trade Expo Indonesia is one of big exhibitions which not only for furniture trading, it will showcases all Indonesian export products as well ranging from industrial, mining, agricultural to craft sectors.. Thus many companies are joined this exhibition to promote their business as well introduce their business to the new clients or buyers.  In this years, like many years before, the 25^th Trade Expo Indonesia will held in Jakarta at Arena Pekan Raya Jakarta International Expo, Kemayoran. The exhibition will open on October 13 -17^th, 2010.

AQSA Living is one of the participants of Trade Expo Indonesia 2010.  It is not the first time for AQSA Living joined in the exhibition, in the years before AQSA Living had joined in the exhibition.  In this exhibition, AQSA Living will promote the new collections, including the old collections in new finishing.

AQSA Living booth is in the hall B no. 32-33, you are able to see the stunning collections of AQSA Living. All collections of indoor furniture that is available in bedroom furniture, dining room furniture also living room furniture.

Then meet us there at the 25^th Trade Expo Indonesia 2010!

Thank you for all participants who have registered in AQSA Living Furniture Design Competition 2010. We have received some of the design and we’re still waiting for others to submit their best design.

Due to varied participants from all over the world, we have some question related to our hard copy requirements. To accomplish that request, we have decided some regulations adjustment. Please read carefully:

1. The deadline of design submission is extended until April 19th, 2010 at 23.59 local Indonesian time. This extended submission deadline is only for those who have registered before the deadline on March 29th, 2010. Those who already obtain registration numbers are still welcome to submit more design by informing us and we will give you more registration number. A new participant can’t register from our regular method since our automatic registration form will be closed after our deadline on March 29th, 2010.

2. The deadline submission for hard copy is extended until May 8th, 2010 to give enough time for it to reach our office in Surakarta, Indonesia. But please send the hard copy immediately.

3. If there is a problem sending the hard copy of the design due to delivery cost, the participants can send ONLY affirmation letter. So, the participants are allowed to submit the design in soft copy but it is a MUST to send the affirmation letter in hard copy. Please note that in case we have a tied scoring, we will decide the winner is the one who have submitted both design and affirmation letter in soft copy and hard copy.

If there is any further question, please fill in our contact form from our website www.furnituredesigncompetition.com/faq

The biggest furniture exhibition will be held in Indonesia on 11^th – 14^th March 2010, the 3^rd International Furniture & Craft Fair Indonesia or IFFINA 2010.  The exhibition will be held in Jakarta International Expo at Kemayoran, Jakarta, Indonesia. This exhibition will present you the greatest range of Indonesian best furniture and handicraft also household and accessories. It is a right place to find a great number of brand new designs of furniture and craft product.

All of IFFINA participants are producer, exporter, manufacturer, and wholesalers or retailers, small & medium enterprises of furniture and handicrafts industry in Indonesia. This is the third opportunity for AQSA Living joining the exhibition. In IFFINA 2010 our booth is at Hall A (A2-048), you can meet us there with our brand new collection of wood furniture.

Meet these entire participants in the exhibition where you could chance on the appropriate producers or suppliers. Do not miss this great opportunity!

click here to see AQSA Living booth map in IFFINA 2010

Aqsa Living were visited by Jordan Embassy on saturday, January 30th, 2010 which held by Mr Kamal Al hamawi and Mr Bilal Anani as Finance & Development Manager of Jordan Indonesian Business Council.

Signing MoU between Jordan and Solo companies.

They were invited by Major of Surakarta Mr Ir. Joko Widodo which purpose is to sign the MoU among the furniture exporters regarding of business relationship between Jordan and Solo companies. There are several companies which signed the MoU and one of the companies is Aqsa Living.

Agreement of cooperation between Jordan and Surakarta

Congratulation to all the winners of AQSA Living Furniture Design Competition 2009.After series of discussion, the judges have decided the winner whose are :

SET DESIGN CATEGORY
1st winner. Nguyen Thanh Nham from Ha Noi city – Viet Nam
2nd winner. Enriko Maradona Thamrin from Sukabumi – Indonesia
3rd winner. Winta Sekundatia Adhimena from Yogyakarta-Indonesia

INDIVIDUAL CATEGORY
1st winner. Sukmadi Rafiudin from Bandung – Indonesia
2nd winner. Sashia Rosari from Jakarta – Indonesia

All winners were attending the award presentation that was held in Surakarta, Central Java Indonesia on Monday, 10 August 2009.

We also informed that AQSA Living Furniture Design Competition 2010 has been launched on 10th August 2009 by Mr. Ikhwan Asrin, Deputy State Minister of Cooperation and Small Medium Enterprise of Republic of Indonesia. The information will be available starting 1 September 2009 on www.aqsaliving.com and detailed info will be provided in www.furnituredesigncompetition.com.

AQSA Living Furniture Design Competition 2009 Winners Expo & ASMINDO great sale 2009 is an event cooperatively initiated by ASMINDO Komda Solo Raya and PT Aqsaliving Solo.

The opening day of this event will be on Friday, 10th August 2009 at Graha Solo Raya. It is scheduled that the States Minister of Cooperatives Small & Medium Enterprises Republic of Indonesia, Drs. Suryadharma Ali, Msi will be there to open the event. His presence in that event has been made sure by information got from Marketing Deputy of States Ministry of Cooperatives Small & Medium Enterprises Republic of Indonesia on last Friday, 31st July 2009. For your information, this event is the first expo held in Graha Surakarta building. All this time, the building located in the Gladak area, Solo, is used as BKAD office.

As for Aqsaliving, this event is the final series of International Furniture Design Competition. “As it is known that since last February, we have conducted this competition, and not less than 139 participants are noted having submitted their work Together with ASMINDO Solo Raya, we will also display the work of the ten nominators who have chance to be the winner,” said Wahyu Hanggono, The main director of PT Aqsaliving Solo.

The competition which provides total reward of about US$15,000 gives chance to public to have direct look at the prototype of the ten nominators’ works. The judging process to decide the winner will also be done during 12 days of the expo. “This competition will be held regularly every year,” add Wahyu.

Information centre

Meanwhile, to Asmindo Komda Solo Raya, this exhibition is a chance to the local people to know further about the local furniture products.
R David Wijaya, head of ASMINDO Solo Raya, said that his team will show the furniture products in export quality from at least 20 furniture companies.
“This event is held coincide to the momentum of idl-fitr. So that’s why we will offer special price under market-rate. About the Graha Solo Raya building, it is expected to be a kind of Solo Raya Information Centre. However, it won’t be only about furniture but overall potential aspect in Solo which can be accessed by public, for instance, tourism information, UKM, industry and food. Instead, it has sufficient facilities” said him.
Completing the 26 stands before, PT Telkom Solo declared its availability to support this event, said Dwi Heriyanto, General Manager of PT Telkom Solo.
“We will open free hot-spot until 12 days full. Besides, in our stand, there are trained instructors ready to give the supervision of producing web to the visitor. Hopefully, it can be fully utilized by them either by looking at the furniture product from the local company and also an opportunity to enrich IT” said him.
This event will last for 12 days, August 10th-21st 2009. Open everyday from 10 a.m. until 21 p.m.
“Except at the last day, concerning about the 1st day of fasting month in 2009, we open at 9 a.m. and close at 21 a.m.” said one of the crew.
Solo, July 7th 2009
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Contact: M Isnaini 081 1263 2626 / 0271 8081288

The ten nominees in alphabetical order of AQSA Living Furniture Design Competition 2009 are :

1. Adi Muchdillah (Yogyakarta – Indonesia)
2. Ardhi Febriyantoro (Semarang – Indonesia)
3. Ari Arsono Boedisantoso (Tangerang – Indonesia)
4. Enriko Maradona Thamrin (Sukabumi – Indonesia)
5. Nguyen Thanh Nam (Ha Noi city – Viet Nam )
6. Sashia Rosari (Jakarta – Indonesia)
7. Sukmadi Rafiuddin (Bandung – Indonesia)
8. Theophilus Wijaya Suryanto & William Tjhi (Semarang-Indonesia)
9. Topo Handoko (Yogyakarta – Indonesia)
10. Winta Sekundatia Adhimena (Yogyakarta-Indonesia)

The next stage of judging will be held on 24 July 2009. And finally, the winners will be announced on 25 July 2009. May the best design win!

*[update] due to technical difficulties, we’re sorry to announce that the announcement of our competition and award seremony will be scheduled on august 2009.