Debus Banten

Hello my name is Nima Ivens. My father’s family comes from Banten.
I wanted to understand more about the Banten side of my family.
One of Banten's cultural heritage I am interested about is Debus because this traditional performance is dying out, but it is also a bit creepy so I decided to spend some more time understanding debus.

Debus is a form of martial art, that is performed spiritually sometimes with weapons such as this photo

This image shows a kid eating a burning stick.

Debus started in 16th century.
Before 16th century it wasn’t called Debus but it already existed in many forms and regions.
Debus was used to fight against the Dutch during the colonial era
Debus was specially created for martial art.
I found it very difficult to find a Debus performance to watch. If you would like to see a Debus performance and know more about my cultural heriutage you can go to Kampung Wisata Anyer.
Debus is dying out because the government is not giving our cultural heritage enough support to survive. Please SIGN OUR PETITION and follow our twitter account @IndonesiArt

Batik Solo

Hi I’m Jasmine. My issue is about Batik Solo.  I'm concerned because Batik Solo is dying out from the social wearing and when I did my survey of 30 people, more than 50% percent from the people I interviewed didn't know anything about Batik Solo. Batik Solo is the most classic batik because of it’s color.  A few centuries ago Batik Solo was only worn by royalties, wearing Batik Solo those days shows your level of richness. 
There are many motifs of Batik Solo like Parang, Sido Mulyo and many others but the most popular is Batik Parang.  I am still in the middle of finding out more information about different kinds of Batik Solo, keep visiting our blog because I will update.

So my goal through this blog is to tell you that Batik Solo is beautiful and its from our ancestors, we must love Batik like we love Indonesia.