Mayor of the Yogyakarta City, which Zudianto Herry at the opportunity to open direct Gelar Expo Produk UMKM Kota Yogyakarta 2009 said Yogyakarta city, this activity is one realization of the educational batik industry.

“With the implementation of a variety of exhibitions of batik, batik making uniforms, the curriculum includes batik as ektrakulikuler, upgrading to the dissemination of information on batik designs copyright is the actualization of our society in the making of batik as an integral part of their lives,” Herry said on the sidelines of the event, Friday ( 4 / 12).

Furthermore Zudianto Herry said the future of batik is not only produced by Indonesia alone, other countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Thailand and China are also able to sell it in Indonesia. Seeing this competition, the Indonesian batik will be more to love this single soul culture.

“We also have to make people love the batik, the government until the tourism industry using the batik in a variety of activities is a good effort love batik,” he concluded.

The exhibition is intentionally different from the exhibition is packed usually focused on aspects of education for the people that visit the exhibition. Visitors can see the complete batik industry types ranging from raw materials, batik dyes, different ways of production processes and various kinds of batik and downstream industries that use raw material of batik cloth.

At this event also launched the UMKM website, Disperindagkoptan signing of the MoU with the City of Yogyakarta Yogyakarta Provincial Intellectual Property Clinic to register 5 brand Yogyakarta batik entrepreneurs. This exhibition involves 26 companies in Yogyakarta batik industry. (Fir)

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• Local and International Batik Producers
• Small and Medium enterprises and Cooperative
• State Enterprises and Government Institutions
• Banking and Finance Institution
• Private Companies
• Batik Collectors & Designer
• Company Association
• Batik Organizations & Batik Lovers

Culinary Street Party

It is actuallu a folk party to enjoy varieties of tempting Indonesian foods and snacks from hundreds of food hawkers around Pekalongan city, Central Java and other areas in Indonesia

Business Forum / Batik Seminars & Dialogs

The important agenda is to find solutions to the problems concerning batik industry in Indonesia and the world’s market and also to try to supply production factors with the right strategy in this global economic crisis. We are inviting local as well as international experienced speakers.

Art and Cultural Party

This activity is mean to entertain visitors and tourist with unique central java tradition music performances, campur sari, java langgam and puppet shadow play (wayang kulit). It will create a relaxing atmosphere that will become a magnificent tourism attraction in Pekalongan city.

Batik Decorated Vehicle Parade & Fashion on the Road

This new agenda will become a unique tradition of Pekalongan city. Hundreds of batik decorated vehicles like cars, horse drawn carriage (andong), three- wheeled pedicab (becak), motorcycles, bicycles-along with marching band, traditional dancers, followed by fashion batik show by local and national models and designers will surely enliven this parade. There will be also the breaking of MURI record for batik clothes worn and batik decorated houses all over Pekalongan city.

Batik Design, Painting AND Decorating Competition

In order to provide a media for painting and designing batik fans, there will be a batik painting and designing competitions for the folks of Pekalongan city for elementary, junior high and senior high school students, as well as entrepreneurs and key officials.

Batik Demo and Making Batik Canting ‘Tulis & Cap’

To familiarize the people to making of batik of high art quality and to help them understand the beauty of batik, there will be a discussion and demo of the making of exclusive expensive batik using canting and cap. This activity will involve the batik makers and canting entrepreneurs. They will also show how to make canting.