The Role of Visual Media to Improve the Quality of Publication and Promotion of Batik Training

Abstract

Batik as Indonesia's cultural heritage is sometimes understood as a patterned cloth by ignoring its process. Therefore, batik training center has the aim to educate society what is called batik is a process by giving certain patterns to plain cloth with certain techniques that use wax. Batik training centers such as the Rumah Batik Palbatu (RBP) in Jakarta, provide training verbally or by demonstration. This method application is limited to trainees, so visual media is needed which can be reproduced and disseminated. The preparation of the batik process training module as a visual media is intended to help educating society broadly about understanding batik as a process, not as a final product. Research preparation begins with interviews to the batik training instructor and field observations where the batik training is conducted, followed by systematic writing and the final sample module is consulted to Rumah Batik Palbatu to get feedback. The resulting modules were then reproduced to help training and to educate society