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Harvesting the energy from solar has been growing significantly in the past decades. It enlarges the utilization of solar system technology, such as photovoltaic system, not only in the large-scale application, but also in the home-scale application. Indonesia is known for traditional batik clothing. There are a lot of various batik from different cities in Indonesia, and Yogyakarta is one of them. This paper reports the utilization of photovoltaic system in home-scale batik industry in Yogyakarta. The objective is to investigate the system whether there will be an extra power generated from the photovoltaic if a reflector is applied to the panel. There are two kinds of reflectors used in this experiment, they are mirror glass and aluminium foil. The experiment was conducted in the day where the amount of solar radiation are in the same intensity among three conditions; system without reflector, system with mirror glass reflector, and system with aluminium foil reflector. The result shows that in average the system with reflector has produced higher output power compared to the system without the reflector.