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Visitors pack Indonesian’s pavilion during CAExpo's last day
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A seller of leather bags serves customers, who fill the Indonesian Pavilion at the 14th China-ASEAN Expo (CAExpo) in Nanning city, Guangxi, China on Friday, the last day of the four-day annual event. People always pack the Indonesian pavilion on the last day of the event in search of big discounts. (JP/Bambang Nurbianto)
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isitors crowded the pavilions of Indonesia and nine other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during the last day of the 14th China-ASEAN Expo in China’s southern city of Nanning in Guangxi province on Friday.
All corridors of the Indonesian pavilion were packed with visitors, while attendants were busy serving their customers, who were hunting handicrafts, fashion items, home decorations, accessories and various kinds of food usually sold at cheaper prices on the last day.
“From what I've seen, many more visitors have come this year. It may be because the security is a bit loose,” said Asikin, a Trade Ministry staff member, who also attended the ministry’s booth in the Indonesian pavilion last year.
Even after the exhibition ended at 5 p.m. local time, visitors were still trying to enter the pavilions by negotiating with security officers, however most failed.
Chika, an expo participant, said visitors always stormed the exhibition venue on the last day because they knew the participants offered big discounts.
“I learned that big discounts are only given at the Indonesian pavilion on the last day. I don't think it's good because during the earlier days, many visitors only looked. They came back on the last day,” she added.
Previously, Trade Ministry’s export development director general Arlinda said last’s year transactions at the Indonesian pavilion reached about US$4 million. (bbn)
