Yogyakarta to hold batik festival

Yogyakarta to hold batik festival

YOGYAKARTA: The Yogyakarta batik community, consisting of
batik designers, artists and batik lovers, will hold their second
international batik festival in September this year.

The festival will be sponsored by the provincial
administration.

"After having successfully organized the first event
last year, we decided to hold a second festival as part of the
effort to promote the province's batik products on the
international market," noted batik designer Ardiyanto Pranata
said here on Monday.

He said that a number of different kinds of batik products
would be exhibited at the Yogyakarta Palace museum and at several
well-known exhibition centers in Japan.

He added that registration was open to both local and foreign
designers who were interested in participating in the festival.
--JP