INFOKU, BLORA - The 2023 Blora Berkebaya Festival is one of a series of activities to welcome the 274th anniversary of Blora Regency.
The event was attended by all the wives of the Village Government, Village Heads, Subdistrict Heads and Blora Regency Government Officials, along with the wives of Heads of Regional Apparatus Organizations and BUMDs along with female employees throughout Blora Regency, Monday (4/12/2023).
Head of the Blora Cooperative and SME Trade Service, Kiswoyo, said that this activity featured traditional Javanese clothing worn by female employees and wives of ASN in Blora Regency. The kebaya worn for the festival must be the Kartini, kutubaru and encim kebaya models.
"All wives and female employees from Forkopimda, OPD, BUMN, BUMD, sub-district heads, village heads, village heads, village officials and women's organizations. For wives or employees from BUMD, BUMN, banking, sub-districts and villages, a minimum of 10 representatives will be sent. "The total number of participants is estimated at three thousand participants who took part in this kebaya festival," he explained.
The Regent of Blora, Arief Rohman, appreciates and supports the activities organized by Didagkop UKM, the Blora Education Service and related organizations, and hopes that they can be carried out regularly once a year.
With this festival, PKK women and mothers are enthusiastic about participating in Javanese culture.
"This activity can foster a sense of love and pride in the Indonesian kebaya and as a form of female employees' commitment to preserving cultural heritage," he said.
Chairperson of the Blora Regency Dekranasda, Ainia Sholichah Arief Rohman, said that the Blora Berkebaya Festival and Culinary Exhibition which were being held were an effort to preserve the intangible wealth heritage that is the traditional clothing culture of Javanese women.
Apart from that, the activities are also designed to coincide with culinary exhibitions and simulations of typical Central Javanese mantenan, so that performers including mass dancers, kebaya festival participants and visitors can rest while eating at typical Blora culinary exhibitions, such as lontong tofu, soto klethuk, pecel pincuk, meatballs and various snacks from street vendors selling around Alon - Alon Blora.
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"We want through thousands of participants in the Blora Berkebaya Festival and colossal dances, this can break the MURI record, and this is our effort to preserve cultural heritage and intangible intellectual property rights, which have also been registered with UNESCO, as intangible cultural heritage, and we "Hopefully it can be implemented regularly every year," said the Head of Dekranasda Blora, Ainia Sholichah. (Setyorini)
