One of the cultural heritages of the archipelago that has been inherited from the ancestors is batik. Based on its history, batik cloth has a philosophical value, symbolic meaning, and an event of identity and social strata and spirituality and the journey of civilization. Batik is a cultural art relic that is different from other cultural relics. Batik tiga negeri (means 'three area countries') is one type of batik that has its own uniqueness that lies in the element of coloring. Batik Tiga Negeri of Lasem is a combination of batik Pekalongan, Solo, and Lasem, It is related to the combination of motifs and colors in the process of making. Lasem is known as Little China that have an acculturation with Javanese tradition.
Some Indonesian people still believe that the amulet is a media that can protect them from evil. There are several types of amulets, one of them is wifiq. Which is the amulet in form of written and in Javanese it can be known as Rajah. Wifiqs is still used by santris as the way to seek refuge from their God. One of the wifiqs that they are widely used is wifiq "darkah ya ahlal medina". However, at this time there is a change in the function of wifiq. Which used to be very sacred but now wifiq can turn into something that is no longer sacred (profane). The phenomenon of the change in this function causes the tranformation of wifiq towards commodification. This study uses qualitative descriptive method and supported by Emile Durkheim's theory of functionalism. This transformation caused by the changes of the magical thinking in Javanese. The results of this study will open people's minds of the magical object can change into an object that has a consumptive function.
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