The Batik Latoh as the Result of Maritime Culture of Lasem Community

Abstract

The underlying notion of this research was to investigate the Batik Latoh as one of maritime cultures of the Lasem community involved in the study of maritime history. The study of Indonesian history many times examined the events occurred on the land, even though more than half of Indonesian area covers the ocean. As the alternative of historical study, there is historical investigation based on maritime culture. This is a crucial issue recently since the area of Indonesia is mostly covered by the ocean. One of maritime history studies is the existing maritime potency in Lasem area. The batik of Lasem has the unique color of light red. The infiltrate of outside influence affects the pattern and color of batik. Batik latoh (genus of seaweeds/green algae) was the result of cross cultural of coastal Lasem people on the north coast of Java.