Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 154 International Conference on Culture and Language in Southeast Asia (ICCLAS 2017) Living a Multicultural Lifestyle with Batik: Identity, Representation, Significance Awalia Rahma Jejen Jaenudin Alfida Marifatullah Dept. of Islamic History and Dept. of Educational Management Dept. of Islamic History and Civilization Faculty of Tarbiyah and Educational Civilization Faculty of Adab and Humanities Sciences Faculty of Adab and Humanities Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University University University Jakarta, Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] kt.ac.id Abstract— This study discusses north coast Java batik as In short, many cultures and religions influenced batik part of everyday lifestyle. The north coast Java (Pesisir) batik development since the Dutch era, which includes European signifies multi culture and beauty as compared to Court batik culture, China, Arab, India, Japan, Java, Islam, Buddhism with its philosophical meanings. Studies focusing on lifestyle as and others. Cultural diversity is not only happening at the part of consumption have not been widely written. The use of motifs level, but also includes various values recorded in batik then raises a question: How do people live their colors that represent many cultures. multicultural lifestyle with batik? This ethno-history study sees different civilizations and religions made important contributions in terms of motifs, colors, producers and II. METHOD consumers in four batik loci (Cirebon, Pekalongan, Batang and The study of batik is approached by ethno-history. Batik Lasem). Local climate, government’s policy and UNESCO’s acknowledgement also becomes important factors for as daily articles (material culture) will certainly occupy the multicultural lifestyle formation.