Kasongan village is located in Kajen, Bangunjiwo, Kasihan, Bantul, Yogyakarta. It is about 8 kilometers southwest of the center city or it is about 20 minutes to drive. Kasongan is a pottery village industrial district, and clay material is the main thing to make it. It is a residential area for handicraft makers as well as a wide variety of items mostly using clay as raw material.
Previously, Kasongan villages still limited household appliances, like kendi (water containers), kendil (containers for cooking), Anglo (kilns with charcoal for cooking fuel), and others. Along with the changing times, right now making pottery is not only limited to household items but also other similar items that have high sales value in the market.
The original village into a pottery industrial
During the Dutch Colonial rule, in one of the south Yogyakarta areas, a shocking happened to residents, there was a horse owned by a Dutch detective and found dead in the fields of local people. It made people very frightened and fear of sanctions and punishment. The local people finally went away from the land and did not re-organize the land when they came back. The land was removed and owned by other people when the Dutch left this country.
The people who fear finally silence around the house, because they do not have more fields to fill their time utilizing what is around. They finally made it into tiles, which were not broken when put together, and began shaping it into various functions of goods to use as kitchens or children's toys. Starting from daily life, their ancestors were hereditary habits eventually to the present generation who chose ceramic artists.