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Kemben. Javanese woman in traditional batik kemben, c. 1900. Kemben ( Javanese: ꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦼꦤ꧀, Indonesian: kemban) is an Indonesian female torso wrap historically common in Java, Bali, and other parts of the Indonesian archipelago. It is made by wrapping a piece of kain (clothes), either plain, batik printed, velvet, or any type of ...
Batik [b] is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the whole cloth. [1] [4] [2] [5] [6] This technique originated from the island of Java, Indonesia. [3] Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of wax with a spouted tool called a canting, [c] or by printing the wax with a copper stamp called a cap.
Javanese and Malay. A kebaya [n 1] is an upper garment traditionally worn by women in Southeast Asia, notably in Brunei, [9] Indonesia, [10] Malaysia, [8] Singapore, [11] and Southern Thailand. [12] It is also worn in parts of southern Philippines and Cambodia.
Formal family portrait of former Indonesian's President B.J. Habibie. Women wear kain batik and kebaya with selendang (sash), while men wear jas and dasi (western suit with tie) with peci cap. The national costume of Indonesia ( Indonesian: Pakaian Nasional Indonesia) is the national attire that represents the Republic of Indonesia.
Batik kawung. Kawung batik ( Indonesian: Batik Kawung) is an Indonesian batik motif [1] whose shape is in the form of a circle similar to a kawung fruit (a type of coconut or sometimes also considered as sugar palm or palm fruit) which is neatly arranged geometrically. Sometimes, this motif is also interpreted as an image of a lotus flower with ...
Blangkon ( ꦧ꧀ꦭꦁꦏꦺꦴꦤ꧀) is a Javanese word, inherited from its Old Javanese -root origin. [6] It is originally a portmanteau term, derived from two Old Javanese words, namely " bulaṅ " ( lit. 'band; binding') + " kwan " ( lit. 'sufix' ). [6] The term itself means "the bind [of Batik cloth strip] worn [on head]", with bulaṅ ...
Betawi people, or Batavians [3] [4] [5] ( Orang Betawi in Indonesian, meaning "people of Batavia "), are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the city of Jakarta and its immediate outskirts, as such often described as the native inhabitants of the city. [6] They are the descendants of the people who inhabited Batavia (the colonial name of ...
History. The independent state of Nansarunai, established by the Ma'anyan prior to the 12th century, flourished in southern Kalimantan. The kingdom suffered two major attacks from the Majapahit forces that caused the decline and fall of the kingdom by the year 1389; the attacks are known as Nansarunai Usak Jawa (meaning "the destruction of the Nansarunai by the Javanese") in the oral accounts ...