Sekar Jagad Batik is a batik that depicts beauty and beauty for the wearer. This meaning can certainly be said as a general meaning because all batik has its own beauty. While a fairly specific meaning is explained that Batik Sekar Jagad comes from the words kaart (map, in Dutch) and jagad (world, in Javanese). So the literal meaning of Batik Sekar Jagad is a picture of the beauty of the diversity of various ethnic groups on this earth.
The characteristics of the Sekar Jagad motif which is described as a map can be seen in the presence of curved lines resembling the shape of the island that is side by side with each other. This motif is unique because it looks like it is irregular like other batiks which have a repeating and regular pattern. Batik Sekar Jagad itself is also characterized by the presence of isen-isen (derived from the word content) in the “islands” of various motifs such as kawung, truntum, slopes, flora and fauna, etc.
The Sekar Jagad motif has been known since the 18th century. This means that the early 1700s until the early 1800s Sekar Jagad Batik appeared as one of the classic batik motifs that had been created by the ancestors of the Indonesian nation. At that time the glory of the Majapahit kingdom was still flying in the land of Java, Batik Segar Jagad which was the noble work of the natives had opened up to acculturation with foreign nations. In its development, not only the influence of the Netherlands, the cultural influence of the ethnic Chinese also colored the local cultural products. History records that during the 2 centuries before Indonesia’s independence, there were political upheavals in various regions of Indonesia.
