Saturday, December 1, 2012

Batik, a piece of heritage

Batik, a piece of heritage

Mbah Karyo ("Mbah" is a Javanese term for men or women who already have a grandchild or a person who are elderly) may not know if UNESCO had set batik from Indonesia as the human cultural heritage is not the object. But the old woman is still eager to participate and create a masterpiece of art, Batik !
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Every day Mbah Karyo 100-year-old is brushing wax on batik cloth. A sheet of printed Batik cloth draped over a bamboo stick in between two trees. After soaking Batik cloth, using tools of iron, she curry wax on a particular part of the Batik motifs. Old hand was still quite strong and agile.

"Part of this scrape I will be red," said the woman who lived in Keloran village, disctric of Bantul, Yogyakarta. Every day she completed four pieces of cloth. But Batik cloth was not hers. Mbah Karyo is a Batik workers for each piece of Batik cloth, she paid for Rp.2000 (less than a quarter of US$ 1).

Mbah Karyo is one of the millions of Indonesian Batik craftsmen who depend their lives from the job. A simple person who does not realize that from the work of his hands, Batik Indonesia was recognized by the world.

World through UNESCO has established, Batik is Indonesian native culture which has existed since hundreds of years ago. Batik is a culture, part of the life of the Javanese in particular.

The existence of Batik built with fortitude by simple people like Mbah Karyo, who despite making a piece of Batik cloth only paid a very cheap, but with Javanese culture that flows in her blood, making a piece of Batik cloth is an honor that she gave to his ancestors.

I Gusti Ngurah Rai is hero from Bali

Lieutenant Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai is a National Hero of Indonesia from Bali. He was born Carangsari Kab. Badung on January 30, 1917. He is known as freedom fighters who led the resistance against the Dutch troops in the island of Bali.

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Ngurah Rai began military school at a Dutch school located in Gianyar, Bali and Magelang, Central Java. After graduation, with the rank of second lieutenant, he began to join in the Dutch-sponsored military and served in Bali.

Ngurah Rai found that the republican forces were divided and he worked hard to reunite them. He then organized the first attack against the Dutch forces headquarters at Tabanan. The Dutch then attempted to locate Nguraha Rai’s base and offered negotiations, which he refused.

As a commander, Ngurah Rai is very strict and not afraid of NICA forces are far more sophisticated weapons. The men are respectful and respect him. Along the entire army “Ciung Vanara” which amounted to 96 people, on a gray day in 1946 in 20 villages November Marga Tabanan, I Gusti Ngurah Rai died as a hero. The battle is now known as the Battle of Margarana.

Ngurah Rai has been buried in Marga dated 9 August 1975 and established as a National Hero of Indonesia by the Indonesian government in 1975. And the international airport in Denpasar Bali called by the name of him.

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