Besides the fact that consumers do not appreciate batik, the batik entrepreneurs themselves do not take advantage of this momentum as they have not gained a "benefit" of this designation. In fact there are many batik entrepreneurs have not yet increased their turnover today. Sad, because actually this is a very good opportunity for batik entrepreneurs. Based on preliminary literature study conducted, it was found that there was a downturn in batik market , especially its market share on writing/hand-made and stamped batik. Some of the reasons are less technological innovation applied, difficulty to anticipate and to know the needs of the market, difficulty to find buyers and the difficulty to develop business. Along with the increasingly fierce competition among batik entrepreneurs, such as competition from both domestic and abroad (eg Malaysian batik), batik entrepreneurs then need to anticipate the future in all areas, for example in the field of manpower, raw materials, models and design, technology, etc.. Nevertheless, research on the future anticipation- especially for SMEs - is still very limited (De Roo, 2009; Adam, 2008). Therefore, this article tries to fill the gap by looking at the extra efforts made by the SMEs entrepreneurs to anticipate the future. Related to this problem, there are several research issues that need to be answered in this study, such as batik entrepreneurs strategies in anticipating the future, the barriers experienced by entrepreneurs in anticipating the future, how batik entrepreneurs overcome these obstacles. Those things are the research objectives to be addressed in this study.