Kasongan is the name of a popular tourist destination located in Bantul regency, Yogyakarta, Kasongan is an area famous for its handicrafts gerabahnya. This tour is exactly the place was in the area Kajen hamlets, villages Bangunjiwo, poor district, Bantul, Yogyakarta, about 6 km from Yogyakarta to the south, by road of Bantul.
history
Kasongan attraction pesawahan originally a land belonging to the villagers in the south of Yogyakarta. In the period of Dutch colonization, the area belongs to one of pesawahan residents mati.Kuda found a horse that is believed to belong to the Dutch. Since that time the Dutch colonization period, then the people who own land and immediately release the fear that their land rights and no longer acknowledged.
Fear is also common in other populations that have fields around it that eventually let go of their land rights. Since the number of free land, the other villagers immediately recognize the land. Residents who do not have land then switched professions to become a craftsman who initially mengempal ceramic-ngempal land that is not broken when put together. Actually the land is only used for children's toys and kitchen furniture.
However, due diligence and tradition from generation to generation, eventually becoming Kasongan Tourism Village is very well known. Since 1971-1972, the Village Tourism Kasongan progressed quite rapidly. Sapto Hudoyo (an artist Yogyakarta) to help develop the Tourism Village Kasongan by fostering societies that most of the craftsmen to provide a variety of commercial and artistic touch to the design of earthenware pottery that produced no impression is boring and monotonous, but it can provide artistic value and economic value high.
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Ceramic Kasongan commercialized on a large scale by Sahid Pottery during the 1980s. Results craft of pottery produced by Kasongan is generally a jar with a variety of motives, pots of various sizes, souvenirs, picture frames, wall hangings, furniture such as desks and chairs, etc.. But then developing varied products include artificial flowers of banana leaf, bamboo furniture, mask-topengan and many others.
The results of these craft and good quality have been exported to foreign countries like Europe and America. Usually, this village is visited by tourists visiting Yogyakarta.
sources from www.wisatanesia.com