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...Literature I'm a big fan of the Indonesian novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer because of his outspokenness and his descriptions of the social conditions that existed when the Dutch colonists arrived in Indonesia...
...batik designs come straight from the heart of Javanese tradition, but in other respects Indonesia's most feted fashion maestro, 75-year-old Iwan Tirta, is a modernist - responsible for getting batik into the pages of Vogue and onto international catwalks. A Yale graduate destined for legal practice, Tirta switched career paths in the 1960s after his interest in batik was awakened during a research project. Since that time, he has built up an exclusive fashion and homeware label, and contributed to the preservation and advancement of batik-production techniques. Here are some of his inspirations...
...Painters I love Raden Saleh, the great 19th century painter, and Srihadi from Bandung, who captured the spirit of Indonesia while being very modern at the same time...
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...later visit could allow Obama to bring his daughters and possibly his half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, who spent many years in Indonesia with their mother, Ann Dunham. Dennis Korompis met with Maya in Washington D.C. in September and said she was interested in creating a foundation that will help send Indonesian kids to school in the U.S. "She wants to come next summer to visit schools in remote areas that need help," says Korompis. "If they come next year they can stay longer." And though there has been some disappointment, Indonesians agree that the relationship is a special...