Indonesian Arts & Crafts

Batik as traditional culture from Indonesia, begin to be empowered by Government. The starting policies, because of young generations are not interested in continuing to design batik.
Indonesia archipelagos have different culture and language, so batik design performances are the same as culture of people.
Sidoarjo and Surabaya are starting point to create Village center or Kampoeng batik in Indonesia. Philosophy of creating Kampong batik in order to invite many visitors and foreigners come and find batik home industry easily. You can find women and men to assemble to design batik, using canting, showroom to show varieties of batik to sell and batik processing. It is very interesting to see. The most interest one, Sidoarjo as industry town in east java Indonesia that has serious problem to handle social struggling, because of volcano mud, become pioneer of Kampoeng batik.
Once upon time, the story began when the son of kingdom, anonymous as Mulyadi came to Jetis village. Jetis village as center of government, was so near mosque, called Al Albror in 1675.

By so no one believes if lamp colorful with a charming model that made from banana fiber. But that's. Piasco work, titled young engineers dropout is a German university,
lights are not ordinary. But lights from the paper. Uniquely, He made his own paper from banana fiber abaka imported from East Java. "Actually, if we want and creative, What can bring in money, " minus glasses sliding this man who can make it as business since four years ago.

Of this effort has Piasco able to employ 12 people employees with a monthly salary. And results production has been able to export to United States, Japan and several European countries. "These lights actually not just for outside markets (exports), but also suitable for market in the country. Yet somehow biggest buyers so far are still from the outside. Especially from Japan, " I graduate this machine technique.

Drum is a product of familiar to communities anywhere in the world. Everyone knows that to produces a pleasant sound, drum should be beaten with a technique specific beat. Sound quality produced from the drum, of course determined by the quality of leather and wood which became the basic materials for it drum and how the process or the drum-making techniques.

Province of Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) which consists of the island of Lombok, Sumba and Sumbawa is part group of islands in the archipelago Nusa Tenggara is very rich in art
distinctive culture and unique. In addition to the ceremony known as a typical ancestral lands, West Nusa Tenggara province is also known to have great potential in the field of handicraft industry.

One of the handicraft products which are now typical of NTB were already widely known among lovers of art and craft products are woven Lombok handicrafts made from various types of raw materials such as bamboo, rattan and ate or keta (a kind of mountain grass). Mix between art woven bamboo crafts, rattan or a combined mountain grass with the wood material to produce a combination crafts of a very harmonious and beautiful.

Start a business since 1996 starting with selling crafts product made by people other. Since the year 1999 began to plunge the industry to supply the various crafts to a number of galleries in Bali. These galleries require unique crafts that Slamet asked to supply different goods with crafts existing in the gallery.

Initially only Slamet Rosyidi producing various handicraft items made from coconut shell, but then evolved into shells, cinnamon and Other items that can be affixed with resin material (fiber glass). Order it shell crafts combined with resin / fiber glass continues to increase rapidly. In fact, handicraft manufacturing orders of the shell is now dominating the activities handicraft production in the home production Slamet's Central Rosyidi Crafts.

Manufacture of wood and articles of wood was grow long enough in the ground water. Capacity production was already developed enough big. Its products not only sold in the countries to meet customer needs locally but also exported to many foreign countries because a lot of interest among foreign buyers country.

But lately the processing industry national wood many experienced deterioration especially after the rise of illegal happened illegal logging and trading. Trade restrictions wood material by government policy as an effort to address illegal activities logging and illegal trading makes it more wood processing industry in the country becomes worse off because it became increasingly difficult to obtain raw materials. otherwise, the incident of illegal logging and illegal trading even more to give support to the development of wood processing industry back in the curved state. In fact, a number of wood processing industry which had been closed because of difficulties obtain raw materials, is now rising again because the back to get the supply of timber from the illegal logging and illegal trading that occurred in Indonesia.

Industry craft gold and silver in Bali has developed a long time, ie when ongoing era heyday Nusantara kingdoms of the earth, many centuries before the entry of the colonizers to the area ground water. Although culture make crafts gold and silver jewelry in Bali accounted very old, but the skills to make crafting gold and silver jewelry can be well preserved in the community because of the regeneration of the worked well where the skill hereditary inherited from one generation to the next generation.

Maintaining the skills to make Bali handicraft jewelry is also not apart from the role of indigenous peoples in maintain the customs and culture hereditary societies. Therefore, jewelry crafts were widely used people of Bali as a specific customary upacaraupacara. Relations between handicraft-making skills jewelry with traditional solemnization course specific synergistic effect of mutually supporting efforts to conserve the cultural elements of that society.

Making crafts from the metal is nothing new for the premises. Because, long ago when I was standing much too royal metal craft industry has developed in many different corners of the country. Some metal crafts dating from the time of the kingdom among other various tools of war (beginning of the keris, swords, machetes, spears, shields, etc.), jewelry and accessories empire, art tool (such as gamelan saron, bonang, gongs) and others.

Now in this modern era the art of traditional crafts from the metal try revived as part of efforts to preserve the cultural arts in particular ancestral culture and art of designing and making things from metal. In addition to preserving traditional culture and art heritage ancestors, metal craft industry by taking the form of an antique motif and the royal era was much in demand among buyers, art lovers and collectors of antiques from home and abroad. Of course it became a separate business potential is very promising for those who are able to bring back the values of traditional culture and art era 'fashioned'.

Often, residential buildings, offices or hotels built with modern style seemed so elegant, beautiful and comfortable when the interior space is designed and arranged by attending the atmosphere and feel of ethnic and antique. The mood and feel of ethnic and antique it can be done by placing various ethnic interior decoration and antiques in the room in harmony and proportion.

Of course, the placement of interior decoration in the room must also consider the layout of the various equipment rooms that have specific functions such as cabinets, tables, chairs and others. It is very important to create harmony in the laying of these items in a room. Interior decoration and antique ethnic itself consists of several types, namely a table decoration, decoration wall hanging or floor decoration (ornaments placed on the floor like a jar, a statue or other ornament shapes).