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Central Jakarta mall holds events to mark Batik Day
Thamrin City is holding a series of events from Sept. 29 through Oct. 2 to commemorate Batik Day.
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Two Betawi batik craftswomen apply hot wax to white cloth at the Batik Gobang production house in Srengseng subdistrict, West Jakarta on Nov. 8, 2017. Batik Day falls each year on Oct. 2. (JP/Yon)
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hamrin City shopping center in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, is celebrating one of Indonesia’s most popular cultural heritage, batik, with a series of events from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2.
Batik Day is falls on Oct. 2, following the recognition of batik as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2009 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Thamrin City general manager Adi Adnyana said that, in addition to a batik exhibition featuring various types of the traditional textile, visitors would able to participate in the "Trade in Batik" event.
“'Trade in Batik' means exchanging an old batik for a new one for free,” he said in a press statement on Monday, as quoted by tempo.co.
Other commemorative events held at Thamrin City include a special bazaar where batik can be purchased for only Rp 5,000 (34 US cents), a batik auction and a fashion show, as well as traditional and modern musical performances that includes rampak kendang, a percussion ensemble indigenous to West Java.
Adi said that the money raised from the special batik bazaar would be donated to the Muslim Charitable Donations Board (Bazis) to help the survivors of last month's earthquake in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara.
Visitors would also be able to buy batik at a special price directly from craftsmen at their shops in the mall, Adi added.
Cindy Sosrodiningrat, a batik seller who has been selling her products at Thamrin City for eight years at Boutique Eyang Putri, expressed gratitude that batik sales continued to increase.
“Batik sales has been on an increasing trend year to year, in line with the government’s supporting policies, such as the requirement to wear batik on particular working days, as well as intense promotion,” she said. (sau)
