Kebon’s Hand-Painted Batik Revive after the Quake

6/17/2010 - Eka Wahyu
Hand Painted Batik Blowing Canthing
(© Eka Wahyu)
Kebon Village in Bayat, Klaten, Central Java, is one of the centers of traditional batik painters that use natural dye. Before the earthquake shook Jogjakarta and Central Java in 2006, some of this village’s batik painters were laborers in famous batik enterprises in Jogjakarta and Solo. However, after the earthquake, most of them returned to their village and worked only when there were orders from wholesalers.
Recognizing the potential of Kebon Village, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) with the support of Java Reconstrustion Fund (JRF), currently extends assistances to the 5 groups in hand-painted batik sector, which consisted of 169 batik painters through a recovery for micro and small enterprises program that have been ran for 4 years since the earthquake.
Taking Hot Wax Using Canthing
(© Eka Wahyu)
Before the assistance program, the traditional batik painters from Kebon Village only knew how to paint batik without knowing how to process it further to make a finished batik fabric that priced much higher in the market than the one that not finished yet. The coloring and nglorot-how to remove the wax – process were new to them, and so the natural dye method. IOM assistants also introduced many new batik patterns. Dalmini, one of batik painters, said that the assistance program gave advantages to the villagers, especially information about batik process, management, and marketing. “It’s also increasing our income and we did not need to buy jarik-batik cloth- anymore since we can make it ourselves,” said Suminah, another batik maker, happily.
Traditional Sun Drying Process
(© Eka Wahyu)
Along with the group continuous training and strengthening, these batik painters had developed their dreams and resolutions to grow and evolve by utilizing their skills and their surrounding environtment of natural woodland used as natural dye. They start to develop their ability in coloring batiks with natural dye and create new batik patterns. To continue the community economic and livelihood recovery after the IOM’s assistance program, which will end in 2011, a full support from local government is needed, especially in marketing, promoting, and providing financial capital.
For more information about this traditional batik village, please contact:
Batik Tulis Kebon Indah Group
Email: batik_kebon@yahoo.com
Ibu Dalmini: 0857 256 91539 (Bahasa Indonesia only)
Ibu Sri Windarti: 0813 926 04708 (Bahasa Indonesia only)
Published in Jogjapages.com on June 17, 2010.

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