Giriloyo, Batik, and Enjoying Village

Posted by Lambang Insiwarifianto 5/2/10 0 komentar
Batik handicraft center in Giriloyo, Imogiri, Bantul regency, Yogyakarta (DIY), began to put up a village tour with leather centers Hamlet Pucung, Village Wukirsari.
    
"To start as a village tour, this time about ten home residents in the lodging Giriloyo prepared as tourists visiting the village," said chairman batik crafters community Giriloyo Nur Ahmadi in Bantul, Wednesday (01/06/2010).
    
He said every holiday long weekend holiday and religious holidays, these centers began to be visited a lot of domestic tourists. Besides their tour, also shopped batik products of local artisans.
    
"Therefore, by providing lodging house residents as tourists, they were expected to stay longer in Giriloyo, let alone most of the tourists coming from outside the DIY," he said.
    
According to him, a little or a lot of tourists who visit the center for batik craft in this region, for the local craftsmen is something exhilarating, because it means Giriloyo began to be known public.
    
"Every holiday season no matter how many tourists who visit Giriloyo still welcome a local batik craftsmen," he said.
    
He said to anticipate the number of tourists visiting the center of batik Giriloyo, the institute offers a tour package in the form of recreation around the hamlet and learning batik crafters with local instructors.
    
"Besides, we also prepare a traditional dish of food and drink that is peculiar Imogiri wedang uwuh and pecel turi flowers. With this dish, it is hoped visitors can enjoy a typical rural atmosphere Giriloyo," he said.
    
To support the marketing batik Giriloyo it hoped many promotional activities to include artisans in each exhibition, both at the national level as well as DIY.
    
In addition, he said, by holding his own exhibition in the gazebo Giriloyo batik handicraft centers are also expected to introduce directly the local batik production.
    
"We will cooperate with Yogyakarta Business Development Center for an exhibition at the gazebo batik batik handicraft center Giriloyo once every three months," he said.
    
During this time, according to him, gazebo Giriloyo batik used for the production process 12 groups of local batik crafters.
 
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