Batik has its origins in ancient Africa, where it was used as a form of storytelling and cultural expression. The technique ...

atik is among the nation’s most popular items of cultural heritage. Despite its popularity, not many people know about the traditional fabric’s history, the manufacturing process as well as the people ...

enowned designer Edward Hutabarat once likened batik to “a beautiful remnant of a civilization” and called it the textile of Indonesian culture. “The batik industry has been developing well in the ...

Tourism is a major contributor to the Indonesian economy. But in the rush to cash in on the tourist trade, one local business says traditional culture is being compromised. For many tourists in ...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Hadi Suwito quietly sits at his desk to oversee the daily operations of Batik Plentong, one of Yogyakarta’s surviving manufacturers of traditional batik textile. On the wall ...

She overlays lengths of silk fabric with digitally manipulated photographs and then takes them through the batik process. This results in works that look like large, shimmering paintings bursting with ...

As an art class assignment, students picked a word or a symbol and illustrated it. Marianne Elizalde's 17-inch by 20-inch batik, titled "Reaching Happiness," has lived up to its title. It won the ...

The "Let's Batik" (Ayo Membatik) workshop is held by the Indonesian Embassy in Moscow every Saturday throughout September. Doc. Indonesian Embassy in Moscow "This batik exhibition and workshop which ...