Dekranasda Kubar Urges Disdikbud To Form A Generation To Love Local Products

Chairman of the Kubar Dekranasda Maria Christina Mozes Edwin (center) (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Regional National Crafts Council of West Kutai Regency (Dekranasda Kubar), East Kalimantan stated that the local Education and Culture Office (Disdikbud) could form a generation of nations that love local products, including through local content.

"There are various ways that Disdikbud can do, such as through extracurricular or included in regional subjects, namely local content (falling), so that they will get to know local products from an early age and will love them," said Head of the Kubar Dekranasda Maria Christina Mozes Edwin as reported by ANTARA.

When regional handicrafts and processed products fall, the younger generation not only gains theoretical insight into local wealth, but can also practice processing various products in the form of food, beverages, ukir, or various other special handicrafts, so that they will foster love for local products.

This step will also be useful in terms of preservation in matters related to customs and culture, because it is also often used for traditional ceremonies and cultural activities, so that steps to maintain local wisdom continued by the younger generation can be achieved.

"As for typical Kubar crafts that can be applied in schools such as doyo weaving, tumpar, rattan woven, and others," said Maria while reviewing the Dekranasda Kubar outlet at the 2025 East Kalimantan Fair at Atrium Big Mall Samarinda which took place April 16-20, 2025.

According to the wife of the Regent of Kubar, Frederick Edwin, knowledge about special crafts also has many benefits, especially to open up opportunities for entrepreneurship independently, so that from the world of education it is hoped that it can become a hobby to become an expertise that produces income to help the family's economy.

He also invited the younger generation not to be ashamed to wear wastra and crafts as a form of love and appreciation for Indonesian culture, one of which was a product produced by Kubur craftsmen, because wastra and crafts were ancestral heritages rich in cultural and philosophical values.

"Young people have an important role in the preservation of customs and culture. By wearing wastra and craft products, it means that they love local products and participate in preserving culture, and even helping improve the economy of craftsmen," said Maria.