Designing size of batik shirt for male college student in Surakarta using anthropometric data (Case study: Male college student of industrial engineering major in Surakarta)

Batik is one of the Indonesian culture that is growing very fast, proved with inaugurated batik into the world cultural heritage by UNESCO. Batik should be developed in various aspects in order to meet the needs of consumers, one of them in batik shirt size aspect. But unfortunately in terms of size, batik still has the disadvantages, there are differences in male size batik shirt between one batik shop and other batik shop. This makes the performance of selling batik is not optimal because consumers have difficulty in finding the appropriate size of batik shirt with anthropometry, eg in shop A consumer obtains batik shirt with size M but when it is at the store B, this consumers gain size L. This will make consumers confused while looking for the appropriate batik shirt size based on their anthropometry. The author tried to make a proposal in batik shirt size corresponding with male college student anthropometric data of Industrial Engineering Major of Sebelas Maret University (UNS) and Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta (UMS) with K-Means cluster method to obtain the appropriate size. First determined the desired number of clusters which is four cluster size : S, M, L and XL. Then the anthropometric data of students grouped by cluster K-Means method to get male size batik shirt according to anthropometric data of male college student of Industrial Engineering Major in Surakarta.