Enterprises of Leather from Garut as one of center leather and leather product in Indonesia. Garut city is one of the city's famous leather industry. A wide variety of processed products such as sheepskin leather bags, leather jackets, leather shoes, leather wallets, leather belts, leather and even processed food is also available is skin crackers. Most of the leather used by leather craftsmen Garut there is genuine sheepskin which is already known for good quality leather because it has an engaging blend of three types of sheep. But not all of them use sheepskin as the main ingredient, there is also the use of cowhide and buffalo.
In the beginning of the leather industry in the town of Garut has been around since the days of Japan that was first pioneered by Jatayu Bandung leather industry workers, that are becoming more grown up now. Lots of leather craftsmen in the city of Garut both formal (legal entity) and informal (non-legal), this indicates that the town of Garut indeed processed leather-producing city. According to data gathered from Perindagkop & SMEs Garut at the end of 2017 there were a total of 417 business units leather craftsmen in the town of Garut, is comprised of 75 business units of formal and informal business units 342. A number large enough for the number of businesses in a town, with a total of 417 units of leather craftsmen's businesses absorb approximately 3,000 workers.
Leather craft industry development is quite an increase and still exist in the apparel industry in Indonesia, Garut city lies close to the city that is the center of the apparel trade, the city also is the center of a national trade is very profitable for the sellers of this skin refined products. Supported also by leather craftsmen in Garut who keep abreast of the times, especially in apparel or fashion, thus giving birth to new models of refined-processed skin. This makes skin products can still compete in the market with his trademark respectively. The leather craftsman is required to be able to innovate to create new models of leather processed without reducing the quality of the general public so that it can be accepted.