The Effects of Worker’s Behavior Changes on Batik Equipment in Traditional Batik Process of Oey Soe Tjoen

Abstract

Batik Tulis is one of the world's worth preserving intangible heritage objects from Indonesia. Preservation of the batik industry also includes the conservation of the manufacturing process. Oey Soe Tjoen Peranakan Batik is one of the batik workshops that still maintains the traditional batik tulis process for almost a hundred years. This batik workshop located in the Kedungwuni area, Central Java, is now managed by Widianti Widjaja as the third generation. The intergenerational period causes differences in behavior in everyday life, including the process of making batik tulis. In the second and third generations, postural limitations founded, which also affected the equipment used in the process of making batik. The inconvenience factor in the process of making traditional batik tulis is one of the reasons that trigger changes in the equipment used. The purpose of this study is to examine changes in equipment used in the process of making traditional batik tulis in the Oey Soe Tjoen workshop. Through in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation in a certain period, it can be concluded that the influence of habits and comfort factors at work increased the work platform on some equipment used in making traditional batik tulis, especially at this workshop.

Keywords: Batik tulis, batik tools, behavior, postural, working platform

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/80-01

Publication date: January 31st 2020