InfoSAWIT.JAWA, SOLO – According to series of Hari Batik Nasional in 2022, and as the commemoration on Batik Day as Intangible Culural Heritage by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2009, in the period, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Forum Pengembangan Kampoeng Batik Laweyan (FPKBL) signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) as the same collaboration to develop and promote batik products that would use sustainable palm oil in Indonesia.

In the MoU, FPKBL and RSPO would support one to the other and collaborate to get systemic change process in producing batik. “The goal is about to create batik industries sustainably by noticing environmental aspects,” Chairman of FPKBL, Alfa Febila Priatmono said to InfoSAWIT, Tuesday (18/4/2023).

The latest is that people of Laweyan keep developing batik and their regions as the sustainable batik tourism destination.

In 2023, the initiation to use malam batik from sustainable palm oil as the material would keep going as the same efforts to produce sustainable palm oil batik for the world. Laweyan which is historic would become the major power to produce world – class palm oil batik.

Deputy Director Market Transformation RSPO, Mahatma Windrawan Inantha said, Laweyan as the center of sustainable batik production would be the moment for many parties to get the same collaboration. For it is in process, Windrawan took other palm oil stakeholders to realize it.

“Collaboration among stakeholders would be the successful key to develop sustainable palm oil downstream products,” he said.

It is important that other people play significant roles to develop palm oil batik. He thought, the success of sustainable malam batik would be part of awareness of the people that it is important to consume sustainable palm oil. (T1)