Batik FabricsLately, when I noticed, batik-print clothing is popular among women, particularly teenagers to wear everyday. Previously, batik clothes more often used only for formal occasions. This raises the emergence of trends like two questions in my mind: does this shape their love attitudes towards Indonesia's traditional work, or even this form of reaction to their anger because there are neighbors who claim batik as "owned" them?
I just realized how rampant batik clothes a few weeks ago, when my mother, the dealers batik, batik clothing merchandise offered for my everyday wear. Not usually, I do not refuse. I am actually happy to receive it. Whether it was indeed a good model that I want to wear it, or whether because without me realize batik clothes have started to bloom among teenage girls so I want to follow the trend. However, for whatever reason, I started wearing batik clothes as everyday clothes as batik began Manjadi trend.
I think maybe the reason people started wearing batik liked because they liked him as the nation works. Moreover it recently offered models practically up to date. To me that's good, because then as a work of traditional batik from Indonesia's regions can adapt to today's world so it can compete with the proliferation of western clothing are also popular. But I wonder, why now attract the attention of various circles batik through modern designs?
Apparently according to my uncle who is a batik entrepreneur, who is also new lately producing batik design up to date, the reason for doing this batik makers are all on the basis of their annoyance against neighboring countries who suddenly claim batik as "owned" them. They are as successor agents Indonesian batik culture felt very insulted and unappreciated. Bother to maintain presence in the Indonesian batik, batik suddenly diaku neighboring countries. Therefore, to prove that batik "property" of Indonesia, they also make the modern designs of batik clothes to wear everyday, so that people can often wear them.
ON the one hand, it sounds fun, as it shows how strong the producers were trying to prove is owned by Indonesian batik. However, there is irony in there, too, because it shows that we are only able to sustain batik as belonging to the nation after the attack by gaining recognition of ownership of batik. If it belongs to the Indonesian batik, batik should have been the first used in everyday life. No need to patents, because there is no real tradition. However, if you want to have it, we should love and take care of long ago. If only batik has been used since the first bloom, probably would not have dared to admit its ownership in another State.
If it is not rampant batik clothes everyday is instantaneous emotional reaction against neighboring countries, this might be a trend for a moment. When the situation muffle, just maybe people will start to leave and lulled by a safe state that we have succeeded in proving that batik is "owned" the Indonesian nation. It certainly will increasingly lead to the irony, because it shows the love that was so shallow in the works of the nation. Lovely only emerged as an emotional reaction to the attack other nations.
I can only hope to prove love for batik clothing community today simply will not subside when the attacks from neighboring countries come to subside. Hopefully this trend does not like the batik of every fashion trend once a year just left and forgotten, replaced with less then a new trend again.
