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Understanding Batik: Indonesia’s Wax-Resist Textile Art

A newborn is carried in it. A bride is dressed in it. The dead are shrouded in it. Few textile

Missed flight, terrible news, an awkward misunderstanding with a stranger — in Indonesia, the response to all three might look

At the far eastern edge of the Indonesian archipelago, across a mountainous, jungle-covered landscape larger than most European countries, lives

Around a vast volcanic lake in the northern Sumatran highlands lives a people whose entire social structure runs on a

In the misty highlands of South Sulawesi, a death in the family doesn’t end with a quick burial — it

Say “I’m going to Bali” and most people picture a specific set of things — temples, rice terraces, Hindu ceremonies

In a country where most ethnic groups trace family lines through fathers, one Sumatran society flips the entire system —

Long before “Indonesia” existed as a modern nation-state, a single East Javanese kingdom came remarkably close to unifying the entire

At 10 AM on a Friday morning in August 1945, a single reading of a short, deliberately understated statement changed

Three and a half centuries is a long time for one nation to shape another — long enough to leave