Dedicated to preserving the essence of Javanese wedding customs, a mak andam (bridal make-up artist) from Indonesia embarked on a journey of over 1,500km from Ponorogo, East Java, to Malaysia to ...

MORE people speak Javanese than Malay, Burmese or even Thai. Indeed, 95 million people, or fully 40% of Indonesia’s 265 million strong population, are Javanese speakers. However, Javanese is not ...

Practitioners of kuda kepang, or traditional hobby horse dance, are drawing on the ancient Javanese dance’s performance roots to keep it alive here.