JAKARTA - National Batik Day is celebrated on October 2 every year. This year, National Batik Day (HBN) carries the theme Bangga Berbatik, which is determined by the Indonesian Batik Foundation (YBI).

Based on YBI's official Instagram upload, the theme aims to encourage Indonesian people to use batik more often in their daily lives. The use of batik is considered as a form of support for batik craftsmen and entrepreneurs.

Not only revealing about the theme, YBI also introduced an icon for the 2024 National Batik Day commemoration. The icon is a gedog batik from Tuban, East Java.

Batik gedog is a typical batik for the people of Tuban Regency, whose fabrics are woven. This batik has a plaid or white black line motif.

At the 2024 National Batik Day celebration, YBI held an event according to the theme 'Bandga Berbatik' in Kota Kasablanka, Jakarta, on October 2 to 6. This event is filled with various interesting activities, such as fashion shows, talk shows, workshops about batik, to music entertainment.

Meanwhile, the commemoration of National Batik Day every year is an important moment, because batik is a symbol of Indonesia's global cultural wealth. National Batik Day also marks UNESCO's recognition of batik as an Intangible Cultural Heritage on October 2, 2009.

The UNESCO confession occurred in the 4th session of the Inter-Government Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Abu Dhabi. Since UNESCO recognized it, every October 2 is designated as National Batik Day through Presidential Decree No. 33 of 2009.


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