Warna-warni Karnaval Batik Besurek/The colorful carnival of Besurek Batik

Batik adalah sebuah proses. Batik bukanlah kain tradisional dan batik bukanlah fesyen. Batik adalah kain peradaban. Batik dibuat secara beradab, ada curahan rasa, hati, doa, kelembutan, jiwa, harmoni dan cinta dalam setiap goresannya.

Batik is a process Batik is not a traditional cloth and batik is not fashion, Batik is civilization, Batik is made civilized, there is outpouring of taste, heart, prayer, tenderness, soul, harmony and love in every scratch.

Ungkapan tersebut disampaikan desainer batik Indonesia, Edward Hutabarat. Prof Dr Koentjaraningrat menyebutkan, peradaban adalah bagian-bagian yang halus dan indah layaknya seni, menekankan unsur nurani dan akal.

The expression is delivered batik designer Indonesia, Edward Hutabarat. Prof. Dr. Koentjaraningrat mentions, civilization is the subtle and beautiful parts like art, emphasizing the element of conscience and reason.

Batik Besurek menjalani proses peradaban panjang di Provinsi Bengkulu. Besurek dalam bahasa Bengkulu adalah bersurat, kain yang ditulisi dengan huruf kaligrafi arab tanpa makna.

Batik Besurek undergoes a long civilization process in Bengkulu Province. Besurek in Bengkulu is written, cloth written with Arabic calligraphy letter without meaning.

Batik Besurek dalam sejarah Bengkulu nyaris punah. Menyisakan batik tua yang tersimpan di museum dan beberapa orangtua, lalu mulai dibuat ulang di sekitar tahun 1983.

Besurek batik in the history of Bengkulu almost extinct. Leaving old batik stored in the museum and some parents, then began to be re-created around the year 1983.

Kurator Museum Negeri Bengkulu, Muhardi mengisahkan, batik besurek bercirikan kaligrafi tanpa makna. Batik tersebut masuk ke Bengkulu pada abad XVI bersamaan dengan Islam.

Curator of State Museum of Bengkulu, Muhardi told, batik besurek characterized calligraphy without meaning. Batik is entered into Bengkulu in the XVI century along with Islam.

Ini ditengarai dengan sudah digunakannya besurek dalam tradisi Bengkulu. Mulai dari ayunan anak, acara pernikahan, penggunaan selendang motif besurek saat ziarah kubur, hingga ritual pengantin perempuan meratakan gigi di mana mempelai ditutup dengan kain besurek.

This is suspected by the use of besurek in Bengkulu tradition. Starting from the swing of children, weddings, the use of shawls motif besurek during the grave pilgrimage, to the ritual of the bride to flatten the teeth where the bride is covered with cloth besurek.

"Ritual-ritual budaya itu telah ada sejak abad XVI dan kain besurek telah dipakai," jelasnya.
"The cultural rituals have been in existence since the sixteenth century and cloth besurek has been worn," he explained.

Ia menjelaskan, jauh sebelum Islam masuk, Bengkulu memiliki kain tenun Delamak asal Kabupaten Kaur. Bahan dasarnya benang Kloi yang berasal dari tumbuhan menjalar sebagai benang.

Motif yang digunakan tenun Delamak yakni garis pantai, pucuk rebung, siku keluang, perahu dan manusia.

He explained, long before Islam entered, Bengkulu has Delamak woven fabric from Kaur Regency. The base material of the Kloi yarn derived from the plant creeps as a yarn.

The motifs used in Delamak are the shoreline, the bamboo shoots, the elbows, the boats and the humans.

"Saat Islam masuk, tenun delamak mendapatkan sentuhan dari batik besurek, semacam berakulturasi kira-kira begitu," jelas Muhardi.

Ada banyak tambahan motif saat Tenun Delamak dan Batik Besurek bersatu, yakni kaligrafi yang dipadu dengan motif-motif garis pantai, pucuk rebung, dan lainya.

"Tenun Delamak dipadu dengan kaligrafi maka semakin kaya motif," ujar Muhardi.

Muhardi mengaku, dalam beberapa motif besurek terkadang muncul ciri batik Jawa. Belum diketahui secara pasti kenapa motif batik Jawa kadang muncul di besurek.

"Ada dugaan saat Sentot Ali Basya, panglima perang Pangeran Diponegoro diasingkan ke Bengkulu 1833 terdapat beberapa pengrajin batik asal Jawa yang turut memperkaya motif batik besurek. Tapi ini masih hipotesis perlu penelitian mendalam," tegas Muhar.

Baginya, usaha konservasi dan pelestarian batik besurek harus dilakukan oleh semua kalangan. Menurut dia, besurek merupakan pakaian yang membungkus peradaban Bengkulu.

"When Islam enters, weaving delamak get a touch of batik besurek, sort of acculturate about so," said Muhardi.

There are many additional motifs when weaving uniform and Besurek Batik together, the calligraphy combined with the motifs of shoreline, shoot bamboo shoots, and others.

"Delamak weaving combined with calligraphy then the more rich the motive," said Muhardi.

Muhardi admitted, in some motif besurek sometimes appear characteristic of Javanese batik. Not yet known exactly why Java batik motifs sometimes appear in besurek.

"There are allegations when Sentot Ali Basya, warlord Prince Diponegoro exiled to Bengkulu 1833 there are some batik craftsmen from Java who helped enrich the batik motif besurek.But this is still a hypothesis needs in-depth research," said Muhar.

For him, conservation efforts and batik preservation besurek must be done by all circles. According to him, besurek is a garment that wraps Bengkulu civilization.