ON Thursday, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, hosted a Kebaya Festival, reportedly involving 2,000 women. It followed limited displays of women deliberately wearing kebaya in their daily activities, to ...

Indonesian Minister of Culture Fadli Zon announced the proposal to recognise traditional dance Reog Ponorogo, the Kolintang musical instrument, and the kebaya dress as intangible cultural heritage ...

Sat, November 26, 2022 Published on Nov. 25, 2022 Published on 2022-11-25T15:50:48+07:00 race to claim the kebaya (traditional blouse) is potentially on the cards after Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei ...

Originally formed 47 years ago as a Koran recital group, the all-female Nasida Ria band now numbers a dozen performers, fusing Arabic and traditional Indonesian dangdut music, which was once ...

JAKARTA – Indonesia’s kebaya supporters are pushing for their country to join a multinational bid to nominate the traditional costume for Unesco’s intangible cultural heritage list.

JAKARTA, Indonesia—At a packed festival in central Jakarta, hijab-clad sexagenarian singer Rien Djamain bursts into an upbeat track about nuclear destruction to a crowd of thousands, mostly ...