Semarang Batik as an Artistic Representation of Coastal and Egalitarian Communities

摘要

Batik is one of Semarang citizen's art that has unique things. That unique thing comes from the locality as the source of the idea that expressed to its embodiment. This assessment is focused on the question, how the coastal locality representation to Semarang's batik expression as the characteristic embodiment. This assessment is to find some descriptions that clearly related to the description of the representation of society and culture to Semarang's batik. This research is to find the proof that Semarang's batik represents the type of urban society, coastal/egalitarian; and the type of pop culture, eclectic/acculturative.