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he Culture and Tourism Agency'€™s Art Museum management unit has announced that the Textile Museum in Central Jakarta will host the 2015 Enjoy Ramadhan festival from Wednesday to Sunday.

The annual festival, entry to which is free, features a batik-making workshop, a bazaar, an exhibition and various art performances.

'€œEnjoy Ramadhan aims to lure people, particularly youngsters, to spend time prior to the breaking of the fast at the museum while involving themselves in educational activities,'€ Art Museum management unit head Dyah Damayanti said at the Textile Museum during the opening on Wednesday.

Dyah said the program also aimed at encouraging people to visit the capital'€™s other museums, such as the Arts and Ceramics Museum and the Wayang Museum in Kota Tua, West Jakarta.

'€œPeople should not simply tour the museums as they can also learn something about our culture, for example about the various textiles from across the country,'€ she said.

The committee is also involving boy and girl scouts in the batik-making workshop.

Scout Abdul Salam welcomed the cooperation, saying that promoting Jakarta'€™s tourism was one of the Jakarta scouting movement'€™s latest programs.

'€œMany people think that scouts'€™ activities are mostly done outdoors or in nature. But we are now developing urban scouts as Jakarta lacks outdoor spaces [..] we have a subdivision focusing on tourism,'€ he said.

Jakarta scouting movement tourism subdivision member Rezza Martadinata pointed out that more than 1,000 pieces of textiles were among the most valuable exhibit pieces of the Textile Museum.

'€œYoungsters can learn a lot,'€ he said, adding that the subdivision had planned various programs with city-managed museums.

Another member, Gunya Putri, pointed out that Betawi art performance and free tajil (snacks to break the fast) were other interesting features of the festival.

Among the highlighted events at the Enjoy Ramadhan festival is an exhibition of wastra woven cloth that has a checkered pattern, which is commonly called pelekat. Pelekat was derived from the word pulicat, a town on the Coromandel coast in India, believed to be the home of wastra. Wastra arrived in the country at the beginning of the 17th century, thanks to Portuguese, English and Dutch merchants who exchanged the fabric for Banda Island'€™s spices.