Entrepreneur ‘Mbok Mase’ in The History of Batik Industry in Laweyan Surakarta

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10.2991/icclas-18.2019.28How to use a DOI?

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female entrepreneur, Mbok Mase, batik, Laweyan

Abstract

Javanese women have a quite interesting to be studied, both in the past and the present. One of them was Mbok Mase who worked as a batik trader put women in ordinate position and controlled almost all the joints of life in the village. This phenomenon is very interesting because it was outside the tradition of the feudal society at that time which leads to these questions; What was the motivation of Mbok Mase in Laweyan to break the patriarchy and the culture of the colonial society in the 18th century? and How Mbok Mase contributed the history of Laweyan Batik Entrepreneurship? This research used the qualitative method with a case study approach to reveal the problems related to one particular entity, taking into account the specific context of the existence of the entity. This study revealed that the resilience of Mbok Mase was to elevate women status not only as marginalized and subordinate human beings. Her motivation to do hard work, be thrifty and focus on work was due to intense feud with the nobles. In fact, the decision to be against the nobility of the palace made Mbok Mase successful in work. She became richer than the nobles. Mbok Mase's contribution to the history of entrepreneurs was seen as the control of the production of batik from upstream to downstream up to distribution and finance. The doctrine of marginalized women, as a means of man's pleasure and a ‘kanca wingking’ that almost happened to most Javanese women, was finally broken.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Muhammad Fajar Shodiq
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