Batik Day Celebration in INACRAFT
Every year, INACRAFT is the most awaited event by the batik shops in Pekalongan. With thousands of visitors from Indonesia and abroad, this is the opportunity for these batik craftsmen to introduce their batik and culture proudly. Pekalongan as the Main Icon This year’s INACRAFT is held on the same week as Batik Day. Celebrated […]
Final Presentation Stage: It’s Showtime!
After several weeks of learning and co-designing, the participants were finally able to show their best designs in the final presentation stage on the 8th of October, 2023. The event was carried out in hybrid mode, where the participants and the Beasiswa Indonesia Maju (BIM) coordinators gathered in one place in the Balai Penjaminan Mutu […]
Co-Design Phase: Let’s Mine-crafting!
After almost 4-week of learning and sharing, it’s time to build in Minecraft! The co-design phase that had been waited for by the participants finally started right after the third expert workshop ended. This is the time when the participants can pour their creativity into visualising their proposed solution in Minecraft. The participants are encouraged […]
Zahir Widadi: Pekalongan’s Sustainable Batik Champion
Is it possible to produce batik sustainably? The answer is YES! Showing the way for sustainable batik production is Zahir Widadi, renowned batik artist, Dean of the Batik Faculty at the University of Pekalongan, and the former Director of the Batik Museum in Pekalongan. Zahir stumbled upon rows of Indigofera plants wildly growing in and around the […]
Beauty and the Beast: The Environmental Disaster Behind Batik
Walking the streets of Pekalongan, one immediately sees the two faces of Batik: the beautiful, colored fabrics on the one hand, and the heavily polluted natural landscape on the other. Batik production in Pekalongan involves a labor-intensive process that includes waxing, dyeing, and boiling the fabric to achieve the desired patterns and colors. Unfortunately, many […]
Learning Session III – Understanding Climate Change and Greening as One of the Solutions
The last learning session began in the third week of the program, started with a Raincraft education module discussing the topic of urban greening. Like the previous sessions, the module was accompanied by a workshop with experts conducted on the 9th of September, 2023, through an online platform. The third part of this learning phase […]
The Emergence of Green Batik as Future Demand
Batik Pekalongan must meet this demand by offering green batik products that hold higher value while also promoting environmental conservation
Batik Pekalongan: Significance Role in Economic
The Batik Pekalongan alone accounts for approximately 70% of Indonesia’s domestic batik supply despite the batik industry in Pekalongan faces several issues ahead.
Learning Session II – The Close Relation between Drainage and Waste Management
One of the issues found during The Water Agency’s preliminary site visit to Lapangan Puputan Renon was poor waste management that clogged up the area’s drainage. Through Bali Raincraft, this issue is addressed, and the participants are invited to collaboratively develop potential solutions that they can build in a Minecraft world later on. Before jumping […]
Presentation Slides for Workshop II – Urban Waste Management
A workshop with the topic of “Urban Waste Management” was conducted online on the 2nd of September, 2023 as an addition to the second Raincraft Education Module about drainage. The workshop was presented by Rendra Kurnia Hasan, a Waste Management Coordinator and an Associate Policy Analyst from The Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment […]