Crafts Ceramics Of Banjarnegara

Crafts Ceramics Of Banjarnegara

Klampok is one of the villages in Banjarnegara district which is the center of making ceramics. There are no fewer than 50 craftsmen ceramic clay, which processes the goods that have become works of art high. Ceramics industry in the village of Klampok has a long history before finally known. This came from hard work Kandar Atmomihardjo.

In 1935, the Kandar-time teachers in Kanpur-chance from the Dutch Government to study science in the ceramics Keramische Laboratory in Bandung. During the year there Kandar deepen cobwebs perkeramikan. After from Bandung, Kandar diserahi task to lead the company's ceramic Banjarnegara. However, the task was only five years old. For, after he was assigned to Ipswich. Here he is not stay long, because several years later he returned to Klampok and establish the Technical School, which is one of jurusannya techniques to create ceramics.

1957, Kandar exit from the School of Engineering and establish the company's ceramics industry, which is given the name Meandallai. The name is actually an abbreviation of Educating Children In Local Industry. Workers, most of the children drop out of school and unemployment. From the beginning there menjamurnya companies grow and ceramics in Klampok. Kandar Atmomihardjo own and died in 1977. However, the business dirintisnya not futile. In addition to a livelihood for residents Klampok, production is also known to the world.

Booming ceramic origin Klampok have occurred around the 1980s. Many foreigners come to Thailand only to Klampok order and ceramics. "The intensity of ceramics export to overseas is now somewhat reduced," said one businessman who successfully ceramics, Budi Santosa, 33 years old. However, the owner of Prisma Ceramics studio, which has about 15 branches, which are now scattered in Jakarta, Surabaya, Bali, and Yogyakarta, he was still keramiknya send to France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and several other Asian countries.