Study of Creative Industry Development Based on
Pekalongan Batik Culture
Danarti Hariani
1
, Eliza
2
, D Pratama
3
Universitas Mohammad Husni Thamrin, Indonesia
1
Sekolah Tinggi Perpajakan Indonesia, Indonesia
2
Universitas Indraprasta PGRI, Indonesia
3
{danarti@thamrin.ac.id
1
}
Abstract. Culture is a noble conception that is able to offer and attract interest
and has been passed down from generation to generation in the community in a
community or group. Cultural construction encompasses the system of ideas in
the human mind as intellectual and arithmetic statements, so that it becomes a
means of work, taste, and creativity, including things that are real, such as
patterns of behavior, language, life tools, technology, social structures, beliefs,
arts, law, morals that figure the characteristics and characteristics of society.
Batik is a cultural entity because it shows the characteristics of Indonesian
culture and is a typical Indonesian textile. Batik is an Indonesian textile that is in
great demand and loved by the international community. This is a prospect for
creative industry players, especially the batik industry, to explore and allow
Indonesian batik culture in order to gain economic potential and strengthen the
positioning of Indonesian batik internationally. Pekalongan City has the name
branding namely World city of Batik and makes the only city chosen by
UNESCO in the category of craft and folk art to make Pekalongn city focus on
developing its creative economy, especially the batik industry in order to
improve the competitiveness of Pekalongan city and advance the economy
Pekalongan city community. This paper tries to identify the potential of creative
industries based on Pekalongan batik and analyzes the development of creative
industries based on Pekalongan batik in order to maintain the image of
Pekalongan Batik as a result of creative work based on culture in the eyes of the
world. This paper was prepared using a qualitative descriptive approach that tried
to illustrate the economic potential of the creative industries based on
Pekalongan batik and the efforts of its development.
Keywords: Culture-Based Creative Industries, Pekalongan Batik
1. Introduction
Batik is an Indonesian cultural work that has developed and been preserved for generations,
nowadays batik has gained international recognition. Currently, batik has experienced rapid
development. This is because it is supported by increasing consumer demand. With the
variation of batik motifs that come from the modification of modern motifs that are combined
WESTECH 2018, December 08, Medan, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2283854