Rattan and Function

Rattan is a palm group of families (Tribus) Calameae which has a climbing habitus, especially Calamus, Daemonorops, and Oncocalamus. Calameae tribe consists of about six hundred members, with regional distribution in tropical parts of Africa, Asia and Australasia. Into this tribe including the genus Salacca (eg bark), Metroxylon (eg thatch / sago), and Pigafetta who does not climb, and traditionally not classed as plant cane.

Rattan sticks are usually slender with a diameter of 2-5 cm, jointed long, hollow, and many are protected by thorns long, hard and sharp. These spines serve as a means of self defense from herbivores, while helping climbing, because the rattan is not equipped with tendrils. A cane stalks can reach hundreds of meters long. Rattan sticks if cut down and remove the water can be used as a way to survive in the wild. Javan rhino is also known to make rattan as one of the menu.

Most of rattan from forests in Indonesia, such as Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara. Indonesia supplies 70% of the world's rattan. The rest of the market is filled from Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

Rattan fast growing and relatively easy to harvest and ditransprotasi. It is thought to help preserve the forest, because people prefer to harvest rattan rather than wood.

Functions

Rattan commonly used
in the industry is not too much. Some of the most commonly traded, Manau, Stem, Tohiti, Mandola, Tabu-Tabu, Suti, Sega, Symbol, Blubuk, Java, Bitter, Kubu, Track, Slimit, worms, Semambu, and Pulut.

Once cleared from the midrib prickly mixed rattan to be treated for preservation and protection of the mushroom Blue Stain. Broadly speaking there are two rattan raw material processing: Cooking with kerosene for rattan medium-sized / large and fumigation with sulfur for small-sized rattan.

Furthermore, rattan can be processed into a wide variety of raw materials, for example made Peel (peeling) / Sanded Peel, polished / semi-polished, made core, or star Weaving core. The industrial centers of crafts and rattan furniture in Indonesia is the largest in Cirebon.

Utilization of rattan (sp. Daemonorops Draco) primarily as raw materials of furniture, such as chairs, a coffee table and bookcase. Rattan has several advantages than wood, such as light weight, strong, ductile / malleable, and cheap. The main drawback is prone to infestation rattan powder "Pin Hole".

Rattan sticks can also be made as a crutch to walk and weapons. Various universities martial arts teach you how to fight using rattan sticks. In some places in Southeast Asia, rattan is used as a battering in the caning sentence for perpetrators of certain crimes.

Some cane sap (resin) of the flower stalk. This sap is red and is known in the trade as dragon's blood ( "dragon's blood"). These resins are used for coloring violin or as meni.

Dayak community in Central Kalimantan take advantage of young rattan sticks as a component of vegetables.