Costumes and Textile Art Indonesia as a Practice of Recognition Dutch Colonialism Era, Historical and Present

Abstract

Clothes not only function as a cover for the body, but also understood as a metaphor for power and authority. This paper examines the discourse about the role of the artwork of the Indonesian traditional textile art and costume shown as embodied dependencies during the Dutch colonialism in 17 th -19th century and how it changed today's society in Indonesia. This paper focus on the art history for the material culture and evidence of dependencies in the costumes and textile art Indonesia during the Dutch colonialism and are able in the wider form to correct the widespread in the academic evaluation between written and non-written traditions. The research method applied through empirical research in literature review, using theoretical framework from the art history literature, conceptually and methodologically existing slavery and labor history research. Dutch dominant for a long time and the influence of the population, the clothing in Indonesia is more than just marking differences and similarities in indigenous communities. These clothes give the media to express certain attitudes towards the influences from foreign cultural and political influences. Comprehensive analysis of the interaction of culture given the costumes, textile, attitudes, behavior, gender, norms of appropriateness norms to understand Indonesia's ever-changing social views.