Abstract
The purpose of this study are firstly, to find out what is the history of the batik (a traditional textile originating from the island of Java) in Pekalongan City, Indonesia and what cultural values are contained in the batik design of the archipelago exhibited in the batik museum in Pekalongan. Secondly, to find out how the cultural values contained in batik are communicated to the community. Thirdly, how the museum made an efforts in helping preserve batik as a product of cultural heritage to strengthen the city image of Pekalongan City as the World’s City of Batik. The results of this study indicate that the cultural values contained in batik patterns are strongly influenced by the culture of migrants who arrived in the city of Pekalongan. Pekalongan as a coastal city on the north coast of Java is very easily accessed by migrants from various ethnic groups such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and even Dutch. They came to Pekalongan with the aim to trade, religion propaganda, even to war. Batik Museum in Pekalongan also plays an active role in socializing the history and values contained in each batik displayed by considering the arrangement of display space and organizing events such as fashion shows or short course to make batik for teenagers.
Highlights
Agriculture is a pillar for sustained development, poverty alleviation and enhanced food security in many third world countries (Olwande et al, 2009)
Productivity of agriculture has witnessed a downward trend, with poverty increasing. This is at variance with one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger by 50% come the year 2015
The most notable failure has been in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) where agricultural productivity has dawdled behind than any other region in the world, well below food security and poverty reduction levels
Summary
Agriculture is a pillar for sustained development, poverty alleviation and enhanced food security in many third world countries (Olwande et al, 2009). Agro-based research in SSA and the world over has had a huge impact in improving livelihoods through enhancing productivity growth giving rise to improved rates of return on investments (Alene and Coulibaly, 2008; Thirtle et al, 2003). Most notable has been by Ravallion (1998); Ravallion and Datt (1999) as well as Fan et al (1999) in India They discovered that higher agricultural wages and higher yields tend to reduce poverty, with lower farm productivity, lower rural living standards, lower literacy rates experiencing less propoor growth, as well as investments in roads and agricultural R & D and extension, which apart from increasing incomes, had effect on wage increases and lower food prices. An array of research and development outputs or processes have been utilised to capture a fuller portrait on the ground
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