Batik for the people of Indonesia is a work of art of the ancestors whose existence has been there since a long time and reach out to all walks of life.
Batik is used as clothing, fabric, bags, bed linen, it even extends to products such as shoes, hats, ceramics, and so on.
Despite the identical as the culture of the people of Java, in fact batik in Indonesia, many are also produced outside the region, and each has characteristics that distinguish it from the works of other areas.
However, today there is a tweet from the Chinese media, China Xinhua News @XHNews who called batik is an original work of community groups in the Bamboo Curtain Country.
One of the accounts is questioned if indeed batik is the original work of the Chinese people, why they also call it as ‘batik’?
“Batik is original traditional art from Indonesia since hundred years ago NOT from China How do you get the name of Batik for your art???? Why do you using the same name for your traditional craft???,” wrote the account @KanjengMammie.
Cultural Heritage Objects
Back in batik, the actual in 2009, the united nations agency UNESCO has set batik as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity from Indonesia.
In its website, UNESCO calls the Indonesian batik is a technique, a symbol, and the culture attached to a cotton fabric or silk dyed by hand.
Batik is already inherent in the community since the baby until he died. Baby sling using the fabric batik long, people shower a lot of wear batik clothes, even with people died that most diselimutkan batik fabrics.
Although used for a variety of purposes, batik has a style that is highly diverse with different meanings anyway. For example, the meaning of good luck, prosperity, firmness, and others.
Process of drawing this batik using hot wax is formed into a point and a line and a point with a special tool.
There is also the use of the technique of dye to get the color desired.
Many kinds of pattern of Indonesian batik so-called because of the influence of various factors, ranging from Arabic calligraphy, wreath Europe pigeons China, peacock India, to the cherry blossoms of Japan.
But behind it all, the batik of Indonesia reflects the creativity and spiritual beliefs of the people.
Intangible Cultural heritage means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that by the communities, groups and, in some cases, the individual is recognized as a part of their cultural heritage. Intangible cultural heritage is transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and gives them a sense of identity and continuity, thus encouraging respect for cultural diversity and human creativity. For the purposes of this Convention, consideration will be given solely on the intangible cultural heritage which is compatible with the instruments of international human rights, as well as with the requirements of mutual respect among communities, groups and individuals, and of sustainable development.
Vocabulary batik
In the meantime, quotes Indonesia, Both managed by the Ministry of Information and Technology (Kominfo) the term batik comes from the vocabulary of the Javanese word amba and to the point.
Therefore, batik is historically referred to comes from the Javanese.
The existence of batik then become commonplace in the community since the Majapahit kingdom in the 17th century.
When it is, batik began to be made clothing. Made of fabric that is drawn using natural dyes derived from plants.
The more famous, batik spread to various other kingdoms in Indonesia.
Finally, the authorities of the kingdom of Mataram, Majapahit, Demak, and others make batik as a cultural symbol.
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