Keeping to his roots: Jokowi posing in a batik shirt.
FOR more than 200 years, Surakarta in Central Java has had two special districts, Kampung Laweyan and Kampung Kauman, which are well known not only for their age, but also for their historic batik industries.
In the early period of his serving as Surakarta mayor in 2005, the city administration was developing Laweyan as a batik centre and as a cultural heritage zone.
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