Peningkatan Produktivitas Industri Batik di Kecamatan Laweyan Surakarta

Abstract

The purpose of the Incentive Empowerment Society is to improve productivity and introduce / promote batik industry which has been developed by batik entrepreneurs in the District Laweyan Surakarta. IPM is working with partners Batik Dewi SMEs (SME 1) and Batik Dua Putri (UKM2) located in District Laweyan.Laweyan is a batik industrial center with business owners called the merchant/saudagar. Surakarta batik industry entered the twentieth century with Laweyan batik batik producing for the market 'national' and local.While batik in the city center of batik manufacture and trade in the local markets.Laweyan batik entrepreneurs with products such as batik and batik textiles (silk screening) in the current era of globalization is proved to have good durability, amid competition with similar products from other regions and from abroad. As with SMEs in general, batik entrepreneurs in Laweyan also facing internal problems including funding, design innovation, and financial management, which includes also financial administration / accounting.Not all SMEs do with good records, wage issues, and not all SME businesses differentiate between assets with personal assets.In addition, there are problems related to the equipment, which at this point is still quite traditional, given the limited availability of capital so as to reach as grengseng equipment, sewing machines, computers for pattern, pattern table, and others still need help from related parties , in particular the Government of Surakarta. By using the method of implementation, innovation and training this program has resulted in the design / motif is more interesting / attractive market.Innovation apparel products made from batik to further develop the business, and management development training includes Human Resource Management, Marketing Management, Production Management and Financial Management Simplified could have been executed better.Then all these activities followed by assistance in the implementation process