National Batik Day, Club Yummy Mommy In Kuala Lumpur Holds Batik Day Celebration

Indonesian citizens and Malaysians in Kuala Lumpur who are members of the Yummy Mommy Club (CYM) (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Indonesian citizens (WNI) and Malaysians in Kuala Lumpur in Club Yummy Mommy (CYM) commemorate National Batik Day by holding a Batik Day Celebration at The Majapahit Restaurant, Arcoris Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, Friday.

The event began with a demonstration of batik making by the founder of Tjanting, The Art of Batik, Vera Elitt, an Indonesian citizen in Malaysia who recently moved from Perth, Australia.

Vera Elitt demonstrated the process of making batik, including fabric preparation, writing or applying batik wax (night), dyeing and removing batik wax from the fabric.

At the event, a number of participants were given the opportunity to make batik, accompanied by Vera Elite.

Completing the batik demonstration, host Henny and founder of Club Yummy Mommy, Shanti Muzzafar read a narration about batik.

They say etymologically in Indonesian history the word "batik" comes from the Javanese language "amba" which means "to write" or "drip" and "tik" which means "dot".

Writing or drawing dots using wax then the two words then developed and became the term batik as we know it today.

After the demonstration of making batik, the event continued with a nail polish demonstration from Wardah and Halal, a cosmetics company from Indonesia.

The event then continued with a batik fashion show competition which was attended by eight participants with the judges of CYM management, Joyce Nelwan and the President of International Business Club Malaysia, Ray Imran.

The winners of the fashion show competition were Novia Gumila, Cut Yuli and Mila.

The event ended with the relaunch of the International Vendors Club into an International Business Club Malaysia by its president, Ray Imran, which was marked by cutting the cone and showing the new logo.

The founder of Club Yummy Mommy, Shanti Muzzafar said that commemorating Batik Day, his party invited the founder of Tjanting, The Art of Batik, Vera Elitt, who demonstrated the making of written batik so that they could interact directly with the participants.

Shanti said the commemoration was a form of diplomacy by loving batik.

Meanwhile, Vera Triana Elitt said that what was demonstrated earlier was for mothers who were just learning so that she took modern batik instead of traditional batik motifs from Indonesia so that only simpler and larger pictures to facilitate learning.