Batik Production Village’s Adaptation on the Pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

The pandemic of covid-19 has affected urban and rural areas in Indonesia. Batik Production Village is a village with most of the population is dedicated their work to batik production. The adaptations were related to strategies in physical designs, health protocols implementations, and social interaction. Indonesia has many batik production villages; however, this study location was Simbang Kulon Village on Pekalongan Resident. The interaction between each strategy also shown that rural area has unique adaptation related to the pandemic. This study consists of literature study and site observations to elaborate the batik production village adaptations against the pandemic. The result showed one of the generic portraits of rural area adaptation during this pandemic in Indonesia.