Starfruit, (malangkota.go.id) – Continuing to improve the skills of local residents, Polowijen Cultural Village held ecoprint batik training with a team of experts from the 17 August University (Untag) Surabaya, Saturday (26/3/2022).
The initiator of Polowijen Cultural Village, Isa Wahyudi, said that to improve the quality of products owned by the residents of Polowijen Cultural Village, they continue to learn a lot. Today, they specifically studied making ecoprint batik by utilizing natural materials from plants around Polowijen.
"Before learning batik, today the residents of Polowijen Cultural Village have learned various batik techniques. Today's special is to explore ecoprint with speakers from Untag," explained Isa.
The man who is familiarly called Ki Demang added that with the increasing richness of techniques in making batik, it will greatly help the residents of Polowijen Cultural Village to innovate. If that can be done, of course the batik products from Polowijen Cultural Village in the future will be more diverse.
"To be able to compete in the market, batik from Polowijen Cultural Village must have its own characteristics. For that, the human resources of the batik makers must continue to be improved," he explained.
Currently, Polowijen Cultural Village already has two batik products that have distinctive characteristics and have obtained Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The products are Ken Dedes and Malang Mask motif batik. In the future, local wisdom will continue to be explored to create Polowijen Cultural Village batik.
Meanwhile, a resident of Polowijen Cultural Village, Tatik Nur Fajriyah, said that currently they are getting more serious about developing batik so that this village is also known for its rich batik. For that, various trainings continue to be carried out so that there are more works that can be sold.
"Currently, there are around 60 residents in Polowijen Cultural Village who are engaged in batik. Most of them are still part-time workers. Hopefully, batik can be a mainstay to improve welfare," explained Titik. (cah/ram)
