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Pithe Meets: Tjok Istri Ratna Cora

Tjok Istri Ratna Cora is a force of passion behind many wastra (traditional textile) preservation projects. She works both as an academic to a desi...

Unraveling Palembang's Batik

Musi River is the heart of Palembang. On the river side of Musi, immigrants from all around the globe arrived in the 13th century. One of the group...

Bulan dan Perayaan

The moon marks the passage of time in China, laying the flow and pattern for agriculture and rites of passage. As the Chinese migrated outside of t...

Everyday Considerations: New Series of Eco Bag

Consider this scenario is something that’s bound to happen. It's the weekend and you have just received a text; an invitation for a cafe and museum...

Pithe Meets: Retracing Memory Through Batik

Her first time coming to Bali mapped so much memory of Indonesia, now Zoe Lin, 15 years later, tried to retrace and cherish the memory back - throu...

Pithe Meets: Papermoon Puppet

Following intuition is what Maria Tri Sulistyani (R) and Iwan Effendi (I) have been doing ever since. Together, they work on their humble little dr...

At Home with Angela Valerie

We're approaching midyear soon without we realizing it. Do you have any reflection? Maybe it's not too late to reconsider our values and what home ...

Baristas Off Duty

On Taking a Pause and Indonesian Coffee. Associating coffee with Indonesia is nothing new, but what about the first Indonesians at the Milan World ...

Pithe Meets: Kamila Andini

She goes by the name Dini, rhyming with Yuni like one of her latest movies. Kamila Andini is a director and writer that depicts Indonesian women in...

Pithe Meets – Rumi Siddharta

Through Pithe Meets, we’ve met and talked to people that share the same vision with us. Recently, we talked to Rumi Siddharta, a lecturer and a lif...

In Sickness and In Health, In Life and Death: Geringsing of Tenganan.

Out of every textile of Southeast Asia, few are as avidly sought by collectors as the double ikat cloths of Tenganan village, Bali called Geringsin...

On Hopes and Memories

“Do you know why that is? Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?”, — Amy Tan When...