Thursday, 3 May 2012

Batik-producing areas in Indonesia




Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 17 thousand islands and is divided into several provinces, hundreds of counties, and thousands of villages. But for the art of batik, all areas of culture and art have this one. And we will try to discuss the art of batik from every region in Indonesia.


 Java
Java is a name of the island in Indonesia, which is incidentally one of the tribes on the island of Java is its name as well. On this island the art of batik has been grounded and unified in their flesh and blood. call it Jogjakarta, Pekalongan, Cirebon, Lasem, Mojokerto, Indramayu and Solo area is the largest producer of batik in Indonesia maybe even the World.

                            




Sumatra (Andalas) 
Sumatra is a large island in Indonesia, a region including batik producers, such as Aceh, Bengkulu, Lampung and Palembang



Kalimantan(Borneo)
Almost all provinces in Kalimantan has a central borneo batik take the name of the center for batik "garing nganderang " and South Kalimantan with batik "sasirangan"



Sulawesi (Celebes) 
like the other major island in Indonesia, Sulawesi has a lot of batik production areas such as North Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, South Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi. Batik is known of this island is batik Toraja

 

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