Local Wisdom and Economy Development of Batik Industry (Case Study at Pekalongan City)

Susminingsih, Susminingsih and Kanafi, Imam (2013) Local Wisdom and Economy Development of Batik Industry (Case Study at Pekalongan City). In: Proceeding Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies (AICIS) XIII. IAIN Mataram, Mataram, pp. 2198-2211.

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Abstract

This paper assumes that the batik industry development happened in accordance with local wisdom itself. Many years ago, batik at Pekalongan grew up as well as in line with people activities. But there is not means without many problem, for example the capability of batik industry to cope with business environment change, and other challenges. Then batik cloth has been transforming from non tradable thing into commercial thing. This research aims to describe how has local wisdom affected the batik industry, by religion, culture, common sense and other relationship perspectives. By case study methodology, this research aims to learn about social cultural traditions, religion, myths and many else from the people. On qualitative perspective, all of that were meaningful to understand about how the local wisdom which is based on values, morality, harmony, justice have a deep linkage with the economy development. And then successfully brings batik from local into national identity and as national wealth.

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