Majalaya as the center for textile industry in spatial historical perspectives

Abstract

At the beginning of the 1930s, the Majalaya region located in Bandung Regency became one of the largest textile producers in West Java, around 60 percent of which was produced by Majalaya. The interesting thing to study, why land conversion functions, from agricultural land to industrial area.Whereas the geographical area of Majalaya in the Citarum watershed was originally known as a fertile agrarian region.This study used the historical method. The historical method had four stages of work, namely heuristics, criticism, interpretation, and historiography. The analysis carried out based on a spatial and anthropological approach. The results of the study show Malajaya as the center of the textile industry since the era of the Dutch East Indies government until the beginning of the New Order experienced its own ups and downs and dynamics. However, indigenous textile entrepreneurs managed to overcome various difficulties such as limited capital, equipment, and various government regulations from the colonial period to the New Order. Even in its limitations the entrepreneurs and workers have creatively diversified their products, and managed to market them to various cities, so they can survive today.