Dina Mahardika, also known as "Bang Dina," an art craftsman from Indonesia, makes various unique crafts using different kinds of animal skins.

His controversial handicrafts include key chains and bags made from monitor lizard skin, horse skin, buffalo skin, and stingray skin.

In footage from inside his home in Makassar in South Sulawesi Province, on Tuesday (September 22), Mahardika explained that he's been doing this since 2010.

"I learned from my grandmother and my father. My father was a sculpture artist, and my grandfather was a leather artist. But skin is different. I use extreme animal skins.

"I started in 2010, making works from monitor lizard skin. At first, I used goatskin, but now I use monitor lizards. Initially, it was just a bag and wallet, but now there are key chains, ashtrays, belts, hats, and phone cases made from monitor lizard skin," said Mahardika.

Dina Mahardika, known as "Bang Dina", an art craftsman from Makassar, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, makes various unique crafts using various kinds of animal skins. One of his works is making key chains and bags using monitor lizard skin or the Latin word Varanus varius.

When met at his home, Tuesday, September 22, 2020, Dina Mahardika admitted that he had been doing this handicraft since 2010. He tried to make various bags and key chains using various wild animal skins. Among other things, using monitor lizard skin, horse skin, buffalo and stingray.

"In terms of heredity, it was from my grandmother, my father was an artist. My father was a sculpture artist, my grandfather was a leather artist. But skin is different. I use extreme animal skins.

"I started from 2010, making works from monitor lizard skin. Initially it was just a bag and wallet but now there are key chains, ashtrays made from monitor lizard skin, belts made from monitor lizard skin, hats made from monitor lizard skin, and phone cases made from monitor lizard skin. At first I used goat skin, but now I use monitor lizard and stingray skins, "said Dina. (*)