The complicated process of making batik is less attractive to young people
The complicated process of making batik is less attractive to young people. The 2012 Batik Design Competition held by the Yogyakarta Center for Crafts and Batik, is an effort to encourage the creativity of the younger generation to create new designs and foster a love of batik. Bawean society of batik is very minimal, but at this time Bawean typical batik was developed by young people as a regeneration of its predecessor batik maker. Bawean typical batik has its own character and has the potential to be developed which has a great opportunity to become a national batik, as revealed by members of the FKB DPR RI, Jazilul Fawaid during a visit to Penaber Boarding School (Penaber Sukaoneng, Tambak, Regency, Gresik According to Jazil, it is very rare for pesantren whose students can consistently make batik. In fact, making batik is one of the local curricula for santri to attend education in pesantren. The batik that the students work on is not just any batik. But batik with character. Besides schools, the students still took time to make complicated batik, he said. Batik from the production of Penaber Islamic Boarding School students, has a unique motif. Namely, there are images of swords, Santegi flowers, deer antlers, and durung houses. Therefore, Jazil has a strong desire that batik Penaber Bawean continue to be developed. Thus, Bawean batik can penetrate the national market share. In Penaber Boarding School, the only batik maker in Bawean. Although only the beginners produced the product already has its own character, he said. Jazilul also emphasized that he would support the development of batik typical of Bawean Island. By introducing motifs and batik products to the national market. Meanwhile, caregiver Ponpes Penaber, KH Mustofa said, making batik has become an extracurricular activity of the students. Every day, the students are involved in learning and producing batik products typical of Bawean. Through this activity, students are expected not only competent in terms of religion, but in the creative economy, he said. Explained, the price of typical Bawean batik reached Rp. 200 thousand for the type of one color, and Rp. 250 thousand for the type of two colors. As for written batik, the price reaches Rp 500 thousand. It is necessary to review again that batik is a fabric that is painted using canting and liquid wax so that it forms high art-value paintings on cloth. Batik comes from the words amba and tik which are Javanese, which means to write a dot. If in the past it was called an ambatik. Batik preservation can be done in various ways, one of them by preserving batik patterns that are very diverse in Indonesia. Batik is an Indonesian cultural heritage that has been recognized by UNESCO as an international cultural heritage on October 2, 2009. To preserve batik as one of the world’s cultural heritages can be done through the introduction of batik patterns in Indonesia. One of the problems in the field of pattern recognition is the classification of images into certain classes. Batik can be classified based on the shape of the motifs, namely geometrical motifs, non-geometric motifs and special motifs. Motifs of very diverse batik images make it difficult to recognize each pattern of batik imagery. The purpose of batik classification is to divide the image of batik into classes of motifs in accordance with the pattern of the motif so that it is easy to recognize according to its characteristics (Kasim & Harjoko, 2014).