His 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 ...

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Jantima Sukmetta, 52, gradually unfolds a batik fabric. It has distinguished ... She became an art teacher in a school in Narathiwat near the border with Malaysia. Also, during that time, she ...