W. Java to open batik academy
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 11/29/2011 5:54 PM
The West Java Batik Foundation (YBJB)
will establish a Batik Academy to develop and train young
professional Batik makers.
“The West Java Batik Academy will
train batik professionals to master batik skills and be ready to work
in the batik industry,” the foundation’s executive director
Komaruddin Hudiya said on Tuesday as quoted by Antara news agency.
The academy is scheduled to be
established in 2012 with a capacity of more than 100 graduates per
class. Every class will learn batik for three months and develop
their own businesses.
“The batik market is still promising
right now, even though the booming started in 2009. We are trying to
maintain the market’s gusto for batik products by developing batik
motifs from various regencies,” Komaruddin said.
He added that there had been 200 batik
motifs in West Java that had been published in a batik motifs pocket
book.
