The Government of Garut Regency, West Java is preparing experts to advance the leather fashion industry so that it is of higher quality and can be accepted by foreign markets as a follow-up to the fashion exhibition in Milan, Italy. "Steps to improve and improve anything related to the skin," said Head of the Garut Regency Industry, Trade, Energy and Mineral Resources Agency, Nia Gania Karyana, in Garut, Tuesday (27/9/2022). the leather industry from Garut received an invitation to take part in a prestigious exhibition at the Lineapelle Leather Fair 2022 Milan, Italy as well as a collaboration with a well-known industry in the country on September 22, 2022. The results of the activities in Italy, he said, the leather industry and the various products it produces are still the need for improvements such as design, tanning, cutting processes and others.

 Gania conveyed that the result of the collaboration was that it was planned that leather experts from Italy would come to Garut Regency to provide input on various problems or deficiencies in the leather industry in Garut. "Later, experts will be brought in, now these experts are Italians who are experts in leather. Later, they will come to Garut to find out where their weak points are," said Gania. He added that efforts to advance the leather industry in Garut were not only carried out by the Garut Disperindag and ESDM ranks, but there were other agencies such as the Department of Cooperatives and SMEs, then also from the Garut Livestock Service. "While waiting for the experts to come to Garut, there have been steps some time ago, for example, the Ministry of Cooperatives sent several sources to design all kinds of products," he said. The Tagleather8 leather fashion businessman who participated in the exhibition in Italy, Thadea Amirah Isaura said that the leather industry outside had developed, compared to Garut there was still much to be learned.

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