Come to Jogja - Golek Puppet

Golek puppet its a puppet show dolls made of woods. usually the show as performed all night long by adopting 'babad menak' stories. However, there is a shortened story of two hours duration for tourist performed at Sri Mangganti room of Kraton Jogja, every Wednesday started at 09.00 a.m.

*wayang golek
merupakan pertunjukan wayang yang berbentuk manusia. Wayang Golek biasanya di pentaskan semalam suntuk dengan mengambil cerita  'babad menak'. Untuk pertunjukan, wisatawan dapat menikmati pertunjukan wayang golek dengan durasi 2 jam dengan cerita yang dipadatkan  di Sri Mangganti Kraton Jogja, setiap hari rabu pukul 09.00 WIB

Batik, the heritage of Indonesia

Batik is a cloth that is traditionally made using a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. Batik Indonesia, as the overall technique, technology, and development of motives and culture-related, has been designated by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on October 2, 2009. 

The practice of artistic painting and fashion then permeated when people started writing and painting these patterns on white clothes using wax, which later was known as Batik.

Batik technique might have been introduced to Indonesia by India or Sri Lanka in the 6th or 7th century. The word “Batik” itself comes from “amba” – meaning “to write” in Javanese and “titik” – meaning “dot” in Indonesian. Today most people wear Batik from Java, the central island of Indonesia.

Batik Tulis is a hand-drawing, batik painting technique. One would repeat a pattern using canting (wooden pen fitted with reservoir for hot, liquid wax) to fill a pre-sized mori cloth (cotton fabric for batik painting).

The main elements of the patterns (usually animals, flowers, circles, or curves) are penciled onto fabrics before the details (like lines and dots) are added freehand by each artisan

As a result, no two batik tulis patterns are identical. This technique was traditionally practiced as a form of meditation by the female courtiers of Kraton, or Javanese court, in Central Java. It takes a great deal of expertise, patience, concentration, and deep feeling to produce the finest Batik Tulis, and it may take days, weeks and even months to make a single piece of fabric

by Veronica Junaidi