Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Aburizal Bakrie with Menbudpar has been nominated Jero Wacik Batik Indonesia to be included in the Representative List of Cultural Heritage Takbenda Kemanusian UNESCO which is one of the three lists are made under the 2003 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Heritage Protection Takbenda for Kemanusian, in Indonesia which has become a State Party.
File nominations with written documentation, photos and video that has been prepared according to the guidelines of UNESCO by a team of researchers who diketuai Chairman of KADIN Indonesia Foundation Sucipto Imam Umar, 2008 as long ago who has conducted a large-scale research in the field, among a community of experts and batik in 19 provinces in Indonesia.
Official statement from the Secretariat of Cultural Heritage of UNESCO said that Takbenda file nominations Batik Indonesia has been completed and await further evaluation subsidiary Body met in a closed hearing in Paris on 11-15 May 2009. Body plan of the subsidiary of the State Party 6 (Estonia, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Republic of Korea, Mexico and Kenya) will inform the evaluation results to Indonesia on 1 July 2009. “If the Body subsidiaries provide good evaluation, according to the plan that the information will be given to Indonesia later on 1 July, the Indonesian Batik akan expected in the trial received Intergovermental Cultural Heritage Committee Takbenda next scheduled in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on 23 September-2 October 2009, “said Jero Wacik Menbudpar Sapta Pesona building in Jakarta, Thursday (11/6).
As part of these nominations, the Director General of Culture Value, Arts and Movies (NBSF) Depbudpar Tjetjep Suparman, on 22 August 2008 Community Forum was formed Batik is a role to facilitate communication and cooperation between communities batik spectrum area, both from government and private sector, in order to protect, develop and turn back to batik culture of the present generation and a sustainable future.
Chairman of the Institute of Museum Batik, Dr. H. Mohamad Basyir Ahmad gave an example, Batik Museum in Pekalongan, Central Java during the last 3 years active in this module introduce education and training in the curriculum batik level Preschool to Politeknik. Similar training programs have started in Jakarta, Semarang, Yogyakarta and Surakarta. This activity has been to attract UNESCO, and education and training program has been nominated as Best Practices, as a list of other Kovensi under UNESCO in 2003.
