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History of Indonesian Batik

The history of batik in Indonesia is closely related to the development of the Majapahit Kingdom and the spread of Islam in Java. Indonesian batik comes from the word “ambatik” which means a cloth that has many dots. The suffix of the word batik, “tik” means a dot or tip used to make a dot. The word batik also comes from the Javanese language, namely…

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