Ceramics are the objects, items, made of clay, which once burned so it does not dry easily destroyed when exposed to water. In Indonesia, known for its ceramic pottery, pottery or stoneware pot. In the Hindu era known ceramics, with relics of pottery, eating utensils, such as storage bodies in Irian, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara and the Maluku archipelago. Ceramic is a product of the oldest crafts in recorded human civilization and culture. According to history, ceramics has been recognized by the people of East Africa at 2.6 million years ago (Paleolithic Age). But the development of ceramics that spread in almost all regions of the world just happened in the Neolithic, or approximately 15 thousand-10 thousand years ago. 
This evidence can we see on the discoveries of ancient objects that are embedded in the soil, which according to archaeological penandaaan done to strengthen that suspicion. Types of objects found were ceramic objects in the form of containers: jars, drinking utensils, tools and other offerings other; in addition to the discovery of objects made of stone.The people of that time has mastered a technology to transform a fragile piece of land into products that can be used to simplify his life. 
Hearing the word ceramic is usually most people will interpret it as limited to the pottery items such as crockery, pots, jugs, etc., when these items are the products of traditional ceramics is still very limited in scope. But for most people, the term ceramic is not a strange thing, both of the term, visual perception and understanding as a whole. But perhaps there is a bit of confusion when hearing the term pottery, pottery, Terracota, tile, greenware, stoneware, porcelain, and so on. While the use of ceramic objects in everyday life has been increasingly widespread with the development of science and technology. Thus it is necessary to the existence of a retrospect of the ceramic so that our understanding is trapped in a narrow range. The term ceramic comes from the Greek (keramos) which means the pot or pots made of baked clay. Subsequently reaffirmed that the ceramic is an item made of clay through the combustion process. In dictionaries and encyclopedias is defined as a result of ceramic art and technology to produce goods of baked clay, like pottery, tile, porcelain, and so on. But this time not all the tiles from clay. The definition includes all the latest understanding of ceramic materials and inorganic non-metallic solid form.Ceramic is a material that is very useful, because the properties of special / unique that is very broad.
