EOLP for Skill Regeneration, Product Innovation, and Productivity of Banyumasan Batik MSMEs

Abstract

Banyumasan batik MSMEs face three linked challenges: few young successors to skilled artisans, limited product innovation, and unstable productivity. This self-funded one-day community service program, carried out in April 2026, applied the Energizing Organizational Learning Process (EOLP) to batik MSMEs in the Papringan batik center, Banyumas Regency, in partnership with the Paguyuban Batik Papringan (Papringan Batik Association). Using participatory action research, the program was organized into three pillars, skill regeneration, product innovation, and productivity, each run through the three EOLP practices: goal oriented learning, updating oriented interaction, and intra-team learning exchange. Activities included mapping of the batik tulis process, target-setting with owners, learning forums among artisans, and master–apprentice practice. The program produced a map of skills that are difficult to transfer, agreed learning targets, and master–apprentice pairs. The main lesson was that young batik makers remained engaged when their skill targets were clear. A four-level skill matrix is proposed for follow-up programs.