Batik Festival 2026 in Semarang

Participants learn to create batik motifs using traditional canting tools at the Batik Festival 2026 held at the Santika Premiere Hotel, Semarang, Central Java, Friday (2/10/2026). The festival, held to celebrate National Batik Day, features art performances, fashion shows showcasing modern batik creations, communal cloth dyeing, and batik-making lessons using traditional canting as efforts to preserve and introduce one of Indonesia's distinctive textiles, recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage, to the younger generation. ANTARA FOTO/Makna Zaezar/nz

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