TWC PKBL Fostered Partners Appear in the 2018 Adiwastra Nusantara Exhibition

Adiwastra Nusantara 2018, an annual exhibition event, returns to provide a new nuance in the creative world of Nusantara Traditional Textile Craftsmen and MSMEs.

Adiwastra Nusantara is one of the large-scale exhibitions about Nusantara Customary Fabrics that is consistently and sustainably maintained every year. This exhibition was held in Hall A and B Jakarta Convention Center on April 11-15, 2018.

This exhibition is a place for producers, craftsmen, and designers of traditional fabrics to showcase their best works every year, this is what is awaited by connoisseurs and lovers of traditional fabrics as well as the wider community who are increasingly fond of traditional Indonesian fabrics.

This exhibition consistently seeks to develop the potential of traditional textiles in the national economy and to elevate Indonesia's charm internationally. For this reason, Adiwastra Nusantara 2018 is themed "Contemporary Nuances Wrapped in Nusantara Traditional Textiles".

More than 400 artisan and textile designer outlets were present at the 11th Nusantara Customary Textile Exhibition, PT. TWC did not miss the opportunity and participated again, one of which was by presenting Fostered Partners who have produced many batik fabrics with various motifs and patterns such as Motifs: Parang, Teruntum, Pacar wutah, Lereng, Sidomukti, Sidoluhur, Sekar Jagat, Beras wutah etc.

After 4 days of the Exhibition starting from April 11-15, 2018 in Hall A and B Jakarta Convention Center, today the announcement of the Winners of the 2018 Indonesian Scarf Competition was held with the theme "Fusion of Batik and Woven Scarves" consisting of the categories: Silk Woven, Cotton Woven, Silk Batik and Cotton Batik and the Exhibition and Exhibition were also officially closed by the Chairman of Bekraf - Triawan Munaf.

TWC PKBL Manager – Bambang Sarwo Eddy said “The Adiwastra event has been attended many times, this year it is the 11th, this is a Mentoring Program for TWC fostered MSMEs, Adiwastra Nusantara from year to year provides an opportunity for Craftsmen to be creative in creating New works or Adi works according to the theme this time Contemporary Nuance wrapped in Nusantara Traditional Textiles and the winner of the shawl competition has just been announced where the theme raised is Woven Shawls and Modern Batik Shawls, I think there is a kind of change in creating a work adjusted to its era, classic works such as Parang are still maintained running parallel with the emergence of Ginger motifs”.
During the closing, the Chairman of Bekraf also said that there was great public interest in coming to see this event," said Bambang Sarwo Eddy, closing the interview.

In addition, TWC's fostered partner - Saeful Ghofur, a Prambanan Batik Tulis craftsman said, "Alhamdulillah, I am grateful to Allah and express my gratitude to PT. Taman for fostering me all this time. The enthusiasm of the community is great, seen from the visitors who have not stopped, from earlier there were one or two who bought and we hope there will be continuous buyers. Yesterday there were several entrepreneurs who bought in bulk because our products are unique, authentic and we dare to guarantee authenticity, this is written, this is natural color and they took it and left their contact numbers and the relationship continues in the future."

Anticipating the increasing competition of the same type, Ghofur firmly stated, "We will commit to traditional batik with traditional workmanship so that the nation's noble culture is not lost, we will preserve our culture so that the traditional motif remains and will work on contemporary colors, maybe the brown batik color will appear red, appear light blue, etc." While taking an example of a hand-drawn batik cloth with a combination of maroon and pink, Ghofur explained that the traditional color of the sekar jagat motif with a symbol of affection is already contemporary. Ghofur took another example, namely Traditional Batik with the name Batik Sogan where the traditional motif is traditional in its workmanship. The hope is that after the exhibition there will be orders and to PT. Taman not to stop fostering so that we continue to work," said Ghofur.