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From Central Asia to Kashmir
December 19th, 2009Kashmir, situated on the old Silk Road in spite of being nestled by high mountains, has been exposed to cultural influences from various lands. The famous Silk Route which began to be used from about the first century BC not only carried traders, raiders and armies but also immigrants, philosophers, thinkers and men of artistic talent acquainted with religious philosophies. This route also carried cultural influences and ideas across the borders. Kashmir that occupied an important place on the cultural map of Central Asia is up to this day famous for its richness of culture and beauty of its arts and crafts. She maintained close relations with different parts of Central Asia since ancient times. The Buddhist missionaries from Kashmir were the first to spread the Buddhist philosophy in Central Asian territories across the Hindukush in Afghanistan, in China and Tibet as a result of which a new religion took roots in these lands. Many Buddhist scholars from these lands traveled across the deserts and mountains for their schooling in Kashmir. As a result the ancient arts of Kashmir, be it sculpture or architecture, show many similarities in designs, in iconography or in skills of production with the centers of excellence that existed outside Kashmir at that time. The exchange of ideas placed Kashmir at a very high pedestal in such productions and was known all over the region for such artistic creations. These connections were further advanced by political relations, matrimonial alliances and employment of Central Asians in Kashmir establishments.
With the foundation of Sultanate in AD 1339, Kashmir became the magnetic attraction for the Muslim missionaries, sufis, saints and ulemas (Muslim theologians) from Central Asia, who propagated the message of Islam in the region. Most of the time they comprised men from all walks of life to introduce Central Asian skills and technologies as well. Tradition says that Syed Ali Hamdani, the learned saint from Central Asia visited Kashmir in the late 14th century for the purpose of propagation of Islam in Kashmir and brought with him over seven hundred disciples, some of whom were said to be skilled craftsmen. These missionaries also brought with them their own life style, language, dress pattern, food habits etc that subsequently got disseminated among the local people. The influx was such that it was feared then that all these new cultural waves shall engulf the inhabitants, which subsequently did happen.
The Sultan was himself a symbol of these introductions and put on such dresses that were regarded excellent, beautiful and colourful. These were in silk as new technology was introduced when the use of weavers brush and loom for the weaving of silk in Kashmir was attempted. It can be deduced with a fair degree of accuracy from Pundit Srivaras account that Zain-ul-Abdin introduced multi-heddle looms from Central Asia or Khurasan in which circular plant designs were weaved besides animated figures. In the reign of Sultan Zain-ul-Abdin art, culture, fine arts and literature flourished in Kashmir, particularly that of Bukhara and Samarkand. Besides the multi heddle looms for silk weaving, wood carving, enameling, stone cutting, stone polishing, bottle making, window cutting (tabadan-turash), calligraphy and book binding, carpet making and a number of other arts and crafts, which sooth the eye with their intricacies flowered under the impact of Central Asia. The local people started working on the original models from Iran and Central Asia, and in many cases they experimented with new models that led to the evolution of new forms and movements. The fresh introductions must have taken roots deep even after the death of the Zain-ul-Abdin, as seventy years latter Mirza Haidar Dughlat records the glory of these crafts in these words: in Kashmir one meets with all those arts and crafts which are in most cities uncommon. In the whole of Mavara-u-Nahr except Samarkand and Bukhara these are now here to be met with while in Kashmir they are abundant. This is all due to Sultan Zain-ul-Abdin. A further boost to the crafts of Kashmir may have taken place when the Central Asian noble Mirza Haidar invaded Kashmir and his subsequent ten year political domination of the country contributed significantly to the technological and cultural transfusion from Central Asia to Kashmir. His personal and perspective patronage gave a renewed boost to these industries and commerce, the benefits of which were later enjoyed by the Chak rulers who followed him. The valley henceforth experienced its second cultural resurgence whose impact lasted long enough for Mirzas illustrious nephew (Jehangir) to appreciate as he introduced various types of musical instruments, new types of windows and doors, and also made innovations in dress and diet. As a result of such close relations, the arts and crafts of Kashmir show exuberant influences of Central Asia.
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Lessons Learned From Global Sap Implementation in Asia
December 9th, 2009With my current role of managing global virtual project teams, I have been asked repeatedly by my peers on what are the key success factors of implementing SAP for plant start-up in Asia, especially since the users have no previous SAP experience and business process knowledge ,and English is not their first language.
As you can see, global project teams have several unique characters and challenges, such as multi-functional, constantly evolving to meet business and resource constraints, matrix structured, culturally diverse and geographically distributed. These challenges resulted in that corporate culture is not very conductive for effective communication and cross-team learning. Many learning opportunities are missed and corporate have been paying high price for repeating similar mistakes. Thus, capturing and sharing lessons learned as must-to-have project management processes will reduce global project costs and increase customers and users satisfaction.
If you are responsible for global SAP rollout, here are some lessons learned that can benefit your team and your company.
Lessons Learned – Local Leadership Buy-in event
More often, global project team encounters issues like roles and responsibilities of extended team* are not well defined, local support team resources are not committed after project started, there is no go-to person on site to coordinate issues between site, business team and project team, etc. In order to get full support from the local leadership team, a project buy-in event needs to carry out by change management team 3-6 months prior to the project kick-off to help local leaders to understand that SAP implementation project is not only an IT implementation, but a business project as well; to help local leaders to understand the importance of aligning business to SAP; to communicate with local leaders clearly about organizational structure, business processes and business units that will be impacted by implementation, resource requirements, etc.
Lessons Learned Decoding Email Messages
As many companies are moving their business to Asia, communicating effectively in a cross-cultural work environment can ensure companies international business success. Due to the language barriers and different vocabulary systems, core team and local users are having difficulty understanding and decoding email messages. As a result, misunderstanding often arises and issues do not get resolved on time, which affects activities schedule and eventually, affects the rollout schedule.
The recommendation is to conduct a Cross-Cultural Communication session during the Kick-off period to the local users and project team to recognize specific cultural differences, to aware of communication differences and to overcome or minimize the cultural communication barriers to high quality communication.
Lessons Learned – Local Site Coordinator
Global SAP ERP project team normally is referred to as virtual team. Team members are working on remote and scattered all over the world. For example, my team has about sixty members and they are located in Germany, Budapest, Mexico, US, Canada, Singapore, China. A lot of times, core team members do not know who to go to address local business-related activities and issues; users do not know who to go to bring up project and business-related issues; and local site management does not get the latest project status therefore unable to provide just-in-time support.
The recommendation is to nominate an experienced site coordinator onsite to act as a local go-to person for all SAP-related issues. The role is responsible for communicating to all appropriate parties on overall project status, issues, successes, and barriers to keep the members engaged in the project.
Lessons Learned ERP concept and Global Business Process
For most international companies, global SAP implementation is to provide an ERP solution in support of constructing new production start-up in Asia. Most of users are new hires and they do not understand the ERP concept or the Global Template; they do not understand their roles and the associated business processes.
Recommendation is to conduct a Global Template Familiarization session to introduce the Global End-to-End Processes to the users. Afterwards, change management team should work with the local business to determine which processes are applicable to the site, and which ones need localization due to legal and language requirements. A process mapping exercise is highly recommended as well, where the to-be processes (Visio diagram with swim-lanes) are finalized and presented to the local management team. Upon their agreement, SAP roles are able locked, training courses for different SAP roles can be assigned.
Lessons Learned To-be Process
Like I mentioned above, users are new and they do not have much of SAP and business process knowledge. It is unrealistic to expect users to grasp the to-be process fully.
Recommendation is to conduct a User Acceptance Test/Process Testing prior to go-live after end user Basic SAP and business process training. By now, the design has been tested by the Core Team, actual data has been loaded to the test environment, and Super Users have been trained in SAP and business concepts. The Super Users run through the integration test script. This milestone ensures the design works, the data load is accurate and complete, and the super users are trained properly. This key success step should be included in the project plan in order to give core team, business team and extended team good visibility.
Lessons Learned Master Data & Data Validation
Another issue global SAP implementation team faces is that requesting for data validation took much longer than expected. Three steps that involved in master data. There are data collecting, data loading and data validation. Because not all colleagues from business have been told the data collection process, how to validate and the importance of validation, master data always came last minute and past the deadline.
The recommendation is that change management team to conduct workshops locally to explain the data collection and data validation process to business users; to help users understand the meaning of the fields to be validated; and to communicate roles and responsibilities surrounding master data collection and validation by specify who will do what by when. Further, requests for validation should be to a single individual, not a group. Project manager should segregate data load and data validation activities in work plan and ties back to articulating due dates for specific activities and responsibilities distribution list.
Lessons Learned – End User Training
According to normal SAP implementation methodology, change management team plans the training activities one month before system go-live. The training focuses on to-be processes.
Due to the cultural differences, people in Asia intent to nod a lot when instructor talking. It does mean they understand what instructor talking about, it only means that I hear you. They may not tell instructors if they really understand the process/SAP transactions or not. Core team members, for example, weren’t aware that some users didn’t take the basic SAP training until they started the delta training. This resulted in that user’s SAP and business process knowledge level may not attain the level expected and some users are unable to perform transactions in SAP, e.g. create STO to move raw materials from the US to Asia, near go-live.
The recommendation is to set up process to on board new staff. The process includes obtain the SAP ID, go through the SAP navigation training, the SAP functional module training, obtain the knowledge from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and go through the after-training test. The process should ensure the new users fully understand the process and can create the transactions in SAP independently. The standard training goes first, and in the support period, have a 2-3 week refresher training. People are more familiar with the process and know how SAP supports the process. They then start asking questions and we know their learning situation.
Sounded communication between core team and local extended team is very important factor for global SAP rollout. Including all team members in the email loop and plan the regular team update meetings can keep all parties on the same page on each project stage.
In summary, many leading companies use SAP ERP system as an essential infrastructure to provide integrated and standardized real time data to support their global operations. As they move their productions to Asia, they are facing very complicated issues and unique challenges due to national cultural differences and local requirements. Researches of the impact of different cultures on SAP ERP systems implementation in Asian region have not been taken widely yet. Any mistakes of implementation can cost company millions and millions of dollars. Therefore, these lessons we learned from real-time SAP rollouts will provide some guidance on global SAP ERP implementation in Asia.
“experiences From ‘the Flow’ (7) – Living Well? Farangs and Finance: the Myth”
December 9th, 2009??Prosperity: The eternal flow of all that??s good in life??
By Carl ??J.C.? Pantejo, Copyright January 2008
(Author ??My Friend Yu ?? The Prosperity Mentor,? Copyright August 2007. Pantejo – Y.N. Vurce Publishing.)
*Below is the seventh episode in a series of real life events experienced by the author. The only deviations from the truth may be the names of people and places. These stories are also incorporated in ??My Friend Yu ?? the Prosperity Mentor: Book II,? Pantejo – Y.N. Vurce Publishing. Release Date: 2008.
- The Myth of Farang Finances -
There is an unwritten rule about the cost of anything in Thailand: There is a Thai price and a Farang price. Since Thai people believe that ??all Farangs are rich,? the Farang price of everything is much higher (sometimes triple!).
Of course, this is a myth.
But why do Thai people believe all Farangs are rich (including the ??poor? Farang English teachers)? Many reasons. But all of them can be placed into three broad areas: Tourism, Currency, and Standard of Living.
- The Tourist Syndrome -
Like most of Asia, Thailand attracts tourists from around the world.
Prospective vacationers plan and save all year for their holidays in the tropics. The warm, sunny weather; lush, green landscapes; exotic cultures, and beautiful, friendly people are but a few of the many reasons why millions of tourists flock to Thailand.
While on vacation, most of the tourists, out of ignorance OR intention, willingly spend what the local Thai people consider ??small fortunes.?
Wallets and pocketbooks are opened more freely when on holiday.
Consequently, especially in the big, major cities and tourist hotspots of Thailand, most Thai people believe that Farangs are rich because all they see are free-spending tourists.
What the Thai people don??t realize is that the majority of the ??rich? Farangs work like dogs all year ??round in order to spend a lot of money during their short visits in their country; having a great time playing out their individual, celebrity fantasies.
- ??A Farang in Thai??s Clothing? (The Double-Edged Sword) -
Tourists and ex-pats alike enjoy the overshadowing strength of their home currency against the Thai baht. For example, one USD = 33-35 Thai Baht. This situation makes things seem ridiculously cheap.
Food, accommodations, and all vices known to man are easily obtained for obscenely low prices. And, of course, the longer a Farang stays in Thailand, the more he/she learns how to buy things that are closer to the local Thai price.
Case in point: I??ve been in Thailand for about two years now. I take advantage of my Asian appearance as much as possible by keeping my mouth shut and letting my Thai friends do all the haggling.
All vendors assume that I am a local Thai (until I begin speaking). I don??t say a word until the transactions are complete. This ??mum??s the word,? habit of silence normally saves me between 30-50% at all the local markets, restaurants, pubs, hotels, tourists attractions etc.
It??s frustrating to my non-Asian, Farang friends (especially the ones who have been in Thailand longer than me AND speak fluent Thai) whenever we??re out together. Everyone, from the hotel receptionist to the taxi driver, speaks to me in Thai and assumes that I will translate what they say for them.
And of course, prices for me are automatically lower.
When we??re out bar hopping or singing karaoke, the women we meet see me as a rare catch, indeed; a ??double bonus? ?? not only am I a ??rich? Farang, my Thai appearance is easily presentable to friends and family; something supremely important in Thailand.
Don??t get me wrong.
Yes, there are many advantages to being a Farang AND looking Thai; but there are disadvantages too. It??s a double-edged sword cutting both ways. For example, I??m an English teacher. English teachers in Thailand are supposed to look like Farangs (i.e., white skin, tall, brown or blond hair, light colored eyes, etc.).
Many times during my stay in Thailand I??ve been turned down for a job because I ??look too Thai.?
Once I applied for a teaching position at an International School where a lot of my Farang friends worked. They had bachelor degrees. I have a master??s degree and was enthusiastically welcomed by the Hiring Director.
But then a co-owner of the school saw me and instantly told the Hiring Director to offer me a position WITH HALF THE NORMAL FARANG SALARY! In other words, even though I had more education, qualifications, and experience than my co-Farang friends, the co-owner thought I ??looked too Thai? to garner the normal Farang pay.
I don??t blame the co-owner. You see, the parents of English students pay a premium for English classes and want ??Real Farangs? teaching the class!
If the parents don??t like any teacher, only one of two things can happen: 1) The teacher is excused (which is the norm) or 2) The parent takes the student elsewhere for English classes taught by ??Real Farang? teachers (which doesn??t happen often).
- Culture Shock and Living Comfortably: Farang Style -
Let??s face it, visiting a place for a vacation versus living in that place are two very different things.
In spite of having an Asian heritage and passing for a local in any Asian country, I (like all ex-pats) still suffered a severe culture shock when I decided to live in Asia.
Anyone who has ever lived in Asia can empathize.
Things are rarely on time. Asians, with a seemingly perverse delight, are notorious for keeping Farangs waiting; or worse, not showing up at all. No advance notice of cancellation. No remorse if you should happen to bump into them afterwards.
There is a saying amongst us Farangs in Thailand, ??If you and an Asian agree in the morning to meet at 4:00 PM, the next question should be: What week??
And what Westerners consider as ??basic and normal? is considered ??luxurious? by most Asians.
Clean, continuous water is not a guarantee. I??ve lived in many places in Asia where the water spouts go dry for hours everyday. The smart thing to do is to keep a large trash bin full of water at all times in the bathroom. That way, even if the running water runs out, one can flush the toilet (a Western, seated-style toilet or an Asian, squatting style porcelain ??foot bowl?) and at least take a bath.
Uninterrupted, non-spiking electricity is rare. ??Brown Outs? happen frequently. Every household is equipped with candles and flashlights for such occasions.
The locals just take it in stride and entertain themselves with the old art of conversation; or, if one is lucky, the even older (and more fun) art of sex. But most Farangs are ??forced? to ??relax? and go with the flow ?? even if hours of computer work have just vaporized into ether!
When brownouts occur, people scramble to turn all appliances off (in preparation for the power surges that occur when the power is finally restored). Televisions, computers, and stereos routinely become irreparably damaged from such surges.
These ??little annoyances? tend to accumulate.
Finding real napkins vice toilet paper at restaurants becomes a treat. Some semblance of sanitary conditions in restaurants and other public places (meaning: food minus the flies or the smell of sewage – ??Ahhh?the mist of piss and the aroma of dog excrement?) makes one feel like a VIP!
Good roads, roads that don??t threaten to fling you off your motorcycle with every pothole, makes the ??driving war? a little more tolerable.
Honest (or at least semi-honest) businessmen and policemen would also be nice now and then ?? and the list goes on and on?
All the above reasons steer most Farangs towards obtaining a standard of living they consider ??normal? by Western standards; but is nonetheless, a standard that appears quite lavish to the local Thai people.
Naturally gravitating to living areas that more closely match their usual standard of living; Farangs look for cleanliness, convenience, and comfort. This translates into apartments, condominiums, and townhouses that can cost triple the normal Thai person??s monthly salary.
Luckily, since qualified Farangs are in short supply, Farang salaries in Thailand tend to be just enough to support a somewhat ??tolerable? standard of living for a Farang; a living standard that seems totally extravagant by Thai standards.
Not accustomed to (or unwilling to acclimate to) the heat, Farangs seek out places that have air-conditioning. Most locals cannot (or will not) ??waste? their money on expensive aircon units and their accompanying high electricity bills; perfectly satisfied with one or two electric fans.
Farangs routinely enjoy eating at restaurants, especially restaurants that are clean and offer a variety of Thai and foreign cuisines. Local Thai??s either cook at home or eat at one of the many street food stands; thinking that eating at a restaurant is another extravagance reserved only for special occasions.
As soon as a Farang can afford it, he/she buys a car (or at least a motorcycle); whereas the bulk of Thai people use cheap, public transportation (bus, train, subway, or motorbike taxis). Traveling by taxi is considered expensive and used mostly by Farangs and richer Thai??s.
All of this (free-spending tourists, currency power, and luxurious living) reinforces the Thai myth that ALL FARANGS MUST BE RICH!
?Continued in ??Experiences from ??The Flow?? (7) – Living Well? Farangs and Finance: The Reality, Stupidity, and Hard Knocks.?
??Until next time, find ??The Flow?? and jump in!?
Your Friend in this Intrepid Journey called Life,
Carl ??J.C.? Pantejo
Note: If you want to read more about overcoming heartbreak, unconditional love, exorcising past personal demons, and the Illusive Secret of Happiness, please read the following articles:
??Experiences from ??The Flow??: From Heartbreak to Happiness?
??Experiences from ??The Flow?? (2): Coincidence or Synchronicity: FROM RELAPSE TO MIRACLES…?
??Experiences from ??The Flow?? (3): LOST AND FOUND – Kindred Spirits and Mistakes made in Haste.?
??Experiences from ??The Flow?? (4): LOST AND FOUND ?? Meant to Be??
??Experiences from ??The Flow?? (5): ??The Stray?
??Experiences from ??The Flow?? (6): ??New Beginnings, Old Endings?
??How Dare She! Out of Desperation I Learned How to Forgive?
??Remember Who You Are!?
??Need to Heal Your Broken Heart? Read on. Overcome Heartbreak and Learn the Illusive Secret of Happiness.?
(By Carl ??J.C.? Pantejo and published internet-wide, keyword: [title of article] or ??Carl Pantejo?)
Pantejo@ynvurcepublishing.com
About the Author:
He is a retired U.S. Military veteran. Believing that school was too boring, he dropped out of High School early; only to earn an A.A., B.S., and MBA in less than 4 years much later in life while working full-time as a Navy/Marine Corps Medic. In spite of a fear of heights and deep water, he free-fall parachuted out of airplanes and performed diving ops in very deep, open ocean water. He went to Thailand 1 year ago for a weeks vacation, fell into a teaching job, and has never left!
Carl J.C. Pantejo
Pantejo@ynvurcepublishing.com
Founder, Y.N. Vurce Publishing
http://www.ynvurcepublishing.com
Wall Hangings From India : a True Reflection of Tradition and Culture
December 3rd, 2009Vibrant and artistically delightful Indian wall hangings accent the walls with treasures from Indian arts and crafts. The walls transform into a tapestry of colors and designs with the bright hued wall hangings. Finesses of rare beauty and meticulous craftsmanship the Indian artworks embellish the walls with a touch of tradition that India has long practiced during the centuries.
Classic pieces of art the wall hangings of India share a good marketing potential in the domestic and international domain. The visual portrayal of the life and culture of ancient and medieval India is captivated in the wall hangings through the aesthetic creativity and dexterity of the artists and craftsmen. They grace the modern interiors lending a sublime charm and ethnicity.
Indian wall hangings represent Indian art and artistry in the form of embroidery, hand weaving, embossing, enameling, painting, sculpting, carving and more. Stunning artworks are carved out in fine pieces of clay, cane, glass, jute, coir, textile, paper, metal and wood. They are then bedecked with multicolored threads, zaris, beads, mirrors, sequins, semi precious stones and various other decorative elements.
The motifs vary from traditional to contemporary. Wall hangings of modern flavors have themes from abstract art, graphical art and modern art. The traditional ones have images of gods and goddesses, human and animal figures, rural and court scenes and elements of nature beauty laid down on them. Each piece is unique captivating the connoisseurs of art with their dazzling spectrum of colors and inlays.
The various regions of India reflect their distinct artistry and styles in the wall displays. Gujrati Wall Hangings mesmerize with their glowing colors and random zari and glass works. Predominance of red, green, orange, yellow and blue are to be visualized in the hand crafted wall decoratives of Gujarat.
The Jute Wall Hangings bring out the dexterity of the craftsmen from West Bengal. Exquisite designs of ethnic and modern styles are crafted in fragments of jute and adorned with plethora of ornaments. Spectacular Metal Wall Hangings crafted from brass, copper, iron and steel bring out the artistry of Uttar Pradesh and other north central states of India. Engraved in bronze sheets the Tray Hangings with unbeatable designs bring out the typical hand works of South India. States like Tamilnadu and Thanjavur are famous for this type of platter hanging productions.
Wooden Wall Hangings or jharokhas are the legacies of Karnataka and Kerala. Papier Mache Wall Hangings with intricate Arab and Persian inlays beguile with their exotic gold works. Wall hangings in various fabrics astound with their rich decorative details. Brilliant specimens of Thangka Painting, Warli Painting, Minature Painting and Patachitra have been encapsulated in the Fabric Wall Hangings. Applique Wall Hangings and Batik Wall Hangings are also very popular for their unusual patterns and ensemble of colors.
To get information on an enthralling range of wall hangings visit, Wall Hangings From India and to buy, visit Buy Wall Hangings From India
Priyanshu Shrivastava is the author of India Crafts and Crafts In India . These websites provide comprehensive information and Online Shopping Experience on all Indian Handicrafts.
Artificial Crafts Direct From Suppliers in Asia
November 22nd, 2009Artificial Crafts are always in high demand and those merchants that are able to buy these products in variety and with very low price points can capitalize handsomely. If you are a merchant looking to purchase artificial crafts, one of the services that can not only help find suppliers and manufacturers around the world that offer these products, but also help you trade effectively with these partners is Made in China. Our service is the perfect tool to enhance any business, heres how.
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Made in China is the perfect service for merchants looking to purchase artificial crafts and connect with manufacturers and suppliers that sell them. In fact, our service can help you search through millions of potential products and businesses to find the artificial crafts that fit your specific business needs. With our Business to Business E-commerce marketing platform, you can not only search for trade partners, but communicate with these partners directly. For merchants looking for an advantage, using our e-commerce marketing platform can not only save time and resources, but land you a trading partner that will reap dividends for the years to come.
Made in China Gives Artificial Craft Merchants the Tools Needed to Trade
One of the most important services that Made in China offers is the wide range of tools, information and resources offered to merchants looking to purchase artificial crafts from suppliers and manufacturers.
Made in China is in the business of facilitating trade between global merchants and suppliers and manufacturers in Asia, we realize that overseas trade can be difficult at times and offer these resources to streamline trade and inform our members about common pitfalls and obstacles that can be encountered. With Made in China we care about the small business enterprises that are looking to trade artificial crafts along with the large multi-national corporation. With us providing you important services, you can rest assured that your overseas trading will be easier than ever.
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The History of Jetis Batik From Sidoarjo
November 22nd, 2009Batik 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.
Mulyadi as a new visitor try to take sympathy from Pekauman villager. He taught about religion, how to design batik and how to be entrepreneur.
Jetis village that had been varieties ethnic, as madurese, Javanese and others ethnic would have problems, if the people had not tolerance.
The Madurese are popular with strong behave and strong entrepreneurship, diligent, consistent and never give up, success as entrepreneur and getting rich.
To create tolerance between many ethnic at Jetis village, Mulyadi gave training to local people in order to serve Madurace as customers. So design Jetis batik was influenced by Madurese orders and philosophy. Birds, spinach, flowers and spread rice always becomes symbol design in Jetis batik. Birds reflect of free animal. They can fly whenever they wish, work hard, never give up and can live every where. Spinach and flowers reflect that Madurase always sell vegetables in the market and have strong entrepreneurship. Spread rice reflects prosperous.
Sidoarjo is popular with motto, Sidoarjo resurgence to bright future, start to motivate their people to work hard again and never give up.
To motivate batik entrepreneurs, government try to give stimulant through capital, much information how to market products, beside batik entrepreneurs try to redesign batik to be popular between young generation. So young generations, like to wear batik in their daily activities.
According Tan Han Foen, popular designer from Surabaya said that young generations can create new design that suitable with their character.
There are few suggestions how to keep batik in order to look good, according Tan Han Foen,
1.Keep your batik, suitable with batik varieties, because batik is created from varieties tips, silk and cloth,
2.Especially silk batik, you can do dry clean when washing them. For batik that using cloth material, you can wash by washing machine.
3.To avoid faded color, do not wash batik frequently.
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An Old man from Khokana
November 21st, 2009
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