Do you want your furniture to complete the interior of your house at the end of the month? The material that you might think of for making furniture is wood. Maybe you only know about teak or meranti. Many other types of typical Indonesian wood are used for various needs, especially for making furniture.

4 Indonesian kinds of wood are exotic and have many benefits, including for making furniture. What are the typical types of Indonesian wood? The following is a list of four types of typical Indonesian wood that have high quality, apart from teak and meranti wood.

Trembesi Wood
Trembesi wood is a typical Indonesian wood that has beautiful veins, which are perfect for making furniture. This wood is often used as a furniture material, carvings, and statues. Apart from raw material for furniture, Trembesi wood is capable of absorbing up to 28.5 tons of CO2 or carbon dioxide gas.

Merbau Wood
The next type of typical Indonesian wood is Merbau wood. This wood usually grows in Maluku and Papua regions. Merbau wood is often referred to as ironwood because it has superior quality and hardwood, perfect for furniture. This wood is dark ash brown or dark brown, with an almost straight grain direction. Not only furniture, merbau wood is often used as flooring, building poles, truck beds, and construction materials because of its hardness and durability. The prices of teak wood and merbau wood are currently competitive on the market.

Albasian Wood
Another name for Albasia wood is sengon wood. This type of wood can be easily found in building stores of rafters or boards. This type of wood is a type of softwood with hairy wood characteristics and large pores. The character of Albasia wood makes it difficult to use as furniture material.

This makes many people think that sengon wood is of low quality. However, demand for this type of wood is starting to increase from year to year. This proves that albasia or sengon wood can use for various things. Sengon wood is usually used as the main material for processed wood such as plywood, ice cream sticks, pencils, and raw materials for making paper.

Ebony Wood
The next type of typical Indonesian wood is ebony. This wood has a beautiful color, a combination of black with brown and wood grain, which contrasts with the types of Indonesian wood known as Macassar Ebony and Black Ebony.

This exotic combination of colors is what makes this type of wood much sought after by the Japanese, Europeans, and Americans. Unfortunately, this type of wood is starting to be difficult to find. Then, currently ebony wood is designated by the IUCN and the 2000 World Conservation Union (WCN) Red List of Threatened Species as protected wood.

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