Art Studios Dealing with Pandemic
Betawi art workers try to preserve various traditional arts as the icon of Jakarta. For this purpose, they struggle to deal with the test of time, including the COVID-19 epidemic.
Betawi dance coach Caswana, giving free courses to young women by maintaining the Covid-19 protocol at Sanggar Warga in Kelurahan Dukuh, Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, Sunday (21/6/2020). This studio has been providing free courses to its students for decades and has performed in a number of countries, such as Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Germany and Korea.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS -- Betawi art workers try to preserve various traditional arts as the icon of Jakarta. For this purpose, they struggle to deal with the test of time, including the COVID-19 epidemic. Their expression in art is filled with openness, which is a characteristic of the capital city\'s culture.
Kompas coverage at the end of last week showed that efforts to preserve Betawi (Jakarta native) traditional art were seen in many art studios scattered in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok and Bekasi (West Java) as well as Tangerang (Banten). The art forms are varied, ranging from lenong (theater), palang pintu (martial art), tanjidor and gambang kromong (music) to dances.