Informal Education Patterns at the Silver City Metal Craft Centre in Kotagede

Abstract

In the study of cultural inheritance through informal education patterns at the Silver City Metal Crafts Center, informal education has an important role in the preservation and development of traditional metal craft culture. Collaboration between different generations, increasing public awareness, forming learning communities, and positive economic impacts are key factors in efforts to maintain the sustainability of cultural heritage. The metal craftsman community of Kotagede has cultural inheritance from the older generation down to the younger generation in several stages, namely, through informal education from family and closest neighbors who have the skills to process metal crafts, learn about culture by studying the process of internalization, socialization, and cultural enculturation of the people of Kotagede as a center for metal crafts, and determine the cultural elements of the community ranging from Javanese to Interacting, knowledge systems, social systems that give high priority to family values, living equipment systems by utilizing modern equipment designed according to market needs, daily livelihood systems as metal studies, religious systems that uphold Islamic religious traditions, and art resulting from creativity in making metal handicraft products.