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Selasa, 27 April 2010

Batik Garutan conservationists and Succession

Batik Garutan conservationists and Succession

Batik pamor garutan dimmed after a brilliant year ever lQjo's. One problem because there is no regeneration. Not many young people want to continue the work of these ancestors. "Booming" batik lately become the early momentum was beautiful batik resurrection. One of the younger generation that is eager to revive the Batik Garut is Rahmi Yulia Fauziah, S. Sos. (29th).

WHEN graduated from the Department of Journalism Faculty of Communication (Fi-Com), Padjadjaran University (Universitas Padjadjaran), Bandung, not the slightest conceived in the mind of Ami, as he is called, to continue the tradition into luargan va as batik crafters. Granny, Uwak, as well as their parents, Yeyet Heryeti (55) and his father Endang suntara (50) is the batik crafters in Garut. Like most other young children, she wanted to work in an office.

"I have time to become a radio announcer in Garut and an English teacher in high school," said Ami, when found in the Business Consultation Clinic (CLA) Office of Cooperatives and SMEs in West Java province was the center which makes consultation with partner agencies.

After getting married and has two children Ismi An-skia funny (9) and Mohammad. Judge Zaidan Nawfal (6), Ami getting away from the world's attention. He had moved to several cities to follow her husband. When waves break the Ark of the household, Ami's lap back ke1 family.

"I am working on my Uwak," he said. Uwak Ami is Hj. Ai, one of the batik crafters arrowroot.

Despite countless close relatives, she worked did not get preferential treatment in company with the family system.

"I started from peurih (painful) first. So SPG (sales promotion girl)," he said. Like tekerja in the family business, Ami worked odd jobs. In addition to the marketing world, he was also involved in the production process. Work in these areas to give its own benefits.

"I not only know how to market and the ins and outs of the batik itself, ranging from quality to a popular trend," he said,

Frustration

As an eager young man. Ani has great ideas. In the minds of Ami, a traditional patterned batik should not. "While maintaining the traditional motifs, I think there is a modern motifs that may be desirable young man," said Ami.

He also tried berinova-tif, batik market in various ways, directly to consumers to look for business networks through various exhibitions. The problem is, the gap between the two generations that far adrift at the age difficult to avoid. Segamya ideas less accommodating.

Frustration with this situation. plus the desire to be independent some day, Ami breakaway with the family firm. Armed with meager capital, he tried to stand on his own feet. Mandiri is a word easy to say but not easy to mewuj udkannya.

Only enough capital to buy his little bit of plain cotton cloth as a shaman pekalongan basic batik. The second difficulty is a matter of a very rare batik craftsmen in their area. Unable to pay employees, as a way out he used the tactics used by many garment entrepreneurs, namely maklun.

The design drawings he submitted to the batik batik craftsmen in Tasikmalaya to etched on cotton cloth. Yes, the scarcity of inflammation-jin in his homeland to make Ami forced to flee to Tarlac.

Assiduity manage small capital brought meaningful change. The business grew. Currently Ami who is also smart to have a 10 batik is a permanent employee. He no longer had maklunkan batik on others. He began building craftsmen in their homeland.

The need for economic support his family later turned into a concern for preserving Batik Garut. "I see nothing strange. Why batik Cirebon, Tasikmalaya, or could be more advanced than Garut?" he said.

Then he realized. Apparently there is a broken link. Other more promising jobs suck young people in the modem industry. Ami woke up, he was one of the missing link in the chain. Ami offers himself as a connection chain is now missing.

Batik uniforms

Ami determination to preserve batik arrowroot almost simultaneously with the policies of local governments to raise the prestige of batik with batik requires that employees use every day on Friday.

"The government policy is very helpful for craftsmen such as Ami," said Ridwan Mohamad, Chairman of the JSC who accompanied Ami activity. Narrated Ridwan, tenacity Ami seen by institutions engaged in order to maximize the potential of small and medium entrepreneurs in West Java. Ami become partners with a facility participate in various exhibitions and is reunited with fellow entrepreneurs in various places. This mid-June, Ami went to India to meet with local state businesses to seek opportunities there.

Ami figure of a young, agile coupled with high educational capital is a big hope to promote batik arrowroot. Generally people who had been old batik has become comfortable with the existing conditions. They make and market batik with the old way, ie waiting for buyers who come to their place.

In a fast-paced era, as now, those who do not want to pick up the ball would have fallen behind. Ami understand correctly that the new innovation is needed to lift the prestige of this batik. In addition to innovative, the excess energy that the younger generation is still optimal. That's all there in Ami.

Ami has never wasted an opportunity that came to him. Some time ago, when she joined the show in Batam, he does not sit nicely in the booth waiting for buyers. "I'm into a mall and found only one place selling batik there. I offer batik arrowroot on the owner, and he agreed," said Ami. After "closing" business at the mall, he crossed over to Singapore to try marketing peek in there.

The young woman was very persistent. The facility is not everything. In all the limitations, Ami who looked much younger than her age was always struggling maximum. It's not uncommon to see Ami carrying a suitcase full of batik using public buses or intercity buses.

Despite limited facilities, its mobility is very high. One time after Rav-week exhibition in a Jakarta, the delegation asked the ministry of cooperatives and SMEs to exhibit to Pontianak. Meeting with a group is determined in Cengkareng Airport.

"At two o'clock in the morning I went from a boarding house, lodging house by driving a motorbike taxi. Then take a taxi to the terminal Rawamangun," said Ami. With two colleagues, he was pursuing his entourage to the airport.

"It's been so, obtain any information about the aircraft used by the group," he told an early scene that day. Rival "printing"

The challenge that most in-feeling right now is tough competition from batik industry players. "Many people feel that batik is very expensive because they compare me with batik printing (printing machine)," said Ami.

For a printed batik, Ami could give pricing USD 70000.00 per piece, while for batik can be up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, batik printing can be made through the factory price of USD $ 20000.00 per piece.

For this large difference, Ami often become "public relations" batik. He will explain the difference between the batik printing, batik, and batik. "Quality printed batik, especially batik, batik printing far above." he said explained.

In addition to quality, because it is made manually, batik and write this of course requires time and a much longer process of batik printing using rollers made by a factory machine. Within a month home-based business Ami can produce a long cloth batik 2000. Apart form the fabric, Ami also create a center of batik clothes trends.

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