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

Interestingly, this ritual involved a Javanese marriage ceremony of Nyai Sri Gondel and Joko Gondel as the bride and groom. They became the main characters in the coffee-picking ritual ...

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NO ONE BEATS about the bush quite like the Javanese, an ethnic group from Indonesia’s most populous island. Chronicling their mores in 1960 Clifford Geertz, an American anthropologist ...

Second daughter to Javanese aristocrat and functionary of the Dutch colonial bureaucracy, Kartini protested the practice of pingitan, women’s lack of autonomy in the choosing of a marriage partner and ...

The Indonesian city is home to some of the greatest Hindu and Buddhist temples, a thriving food scene and an area known as the Cosmological Axis, a cradle of Javanese culture. Borobudur temple ...

The mountain’s name is a combination of the Javanese words “sranane” (must be) and “adil” (just). Mount Srandil is no ordinary hill with a view of the Indian Ocean. It is also an ancient ...