Clothes Batik' Trend - Love of Indonesia or the emotion of a moment

Lately, when I noticed, batik-print clothing is popular among women, especially teenagers for everyday wear. Previously, batik clothes more often used only for formal occasions. The emergence of trends such as this raises two questions in my mind: does it shape attitudes toward the work of their love of traditional Indonesia or even this form of reaction to their anger because there are neighbors who claim batik as "owned" them?

I just realized how rampant batik clothes a few weeks ago, when my mother, the dealers batik, batik clothing merchandise offered for my everyday wear. Not usually, I do not refuse. Instead, I gladly accepted it.Whether it was indeed a good model so I wanted to wear it, or whether because without me realizing batik clothes are starting to bloom among young women, so I wanted to follow the trend. However, whatever the reason, I started to wear batik clothes as everyday clothes when batik began become trend.

I think maybe the reason people started to like wearing batik because they like it as a work of the nation. Moreover it recently offered models that can be spelled out up to date. To me that's good, because then the work of traditional batik from areas in Indonesia can adjust to today's world so as to compete with the rise of western clothing are also popular. But I was so surprised, why now batik attracted attention of various circles through the designs are modern?

Apparently according to my uncle who is a batik businessman, who also just recently produced batik design up to date, the reason for the batik producers are doing this all on the basis of their indignation against the neighboring countries that suddenly claim to batik as "owned" them. Them as agents of cultural successor batik Indonesia feel very insulted and disrespected. Bother to maintain a presence in Indonesian batik, batik suddenly claimed by neighboring countries. Therefore, to prove that the batik "property" of Indonesia, they also create a modern design batik clothing for everyday wear, so that people can often use it.

In a way, it sounds fun, because it shows how the producers tried hard to prove the batik are the property of Indonesia. But there is also a tone of irony there, because it shows that we are only able to maintain batik as belonging to the nation after the attack with a fight over the recognition of ownership of batik. If it belongs to the Indonesian batik, batik should have been the first to use everyday. No need to patents, because there is no real tradition. However, if you want to have it, we should love and care of long ago. If only batik has been rapidly adopted since the first, probably no one would dare to admit ownership in another State.

If you find that the rise of batik clothes everyday is a momentary emotional reaction to the neighboring countries, maybe this will be a momentary trend. When the situation damping, maybe people will start to leave and be lulled by the coast is clear that we have succeeded in proving that batik is "owned" the nation of Indonesia. This of course will further lead to the irony, because it shows the love that is so shallow on the work of the nation. The love appears only as an emotional reaction to the attacks of other nations.

I can only hope that the proof of love batik clothing community today simply will not subside when the attacks from neighboring countries come to subside. Hopefully this trend does not like the batik fashions which every year once abandoned and forgotten, replaced with less then a new trend again.