Mochtar Apin (23.Des.1923–01.Jan.1994) was an accomplished Indonesian painter, illustrator, writer and tenured lecturer who taught fine arts at the Bandung Institute of Technology, ITB.
Sitor Situmorang was an Indonesian poet, essayist and writer of short stories. Situmorang was born in Harianboho, North Sumatra, and educated in Jakarta. He worked as a journalist and literary critic in Medan, Yogyakarta and Jakarta for a variety of newspapers and periodicals.
Afrizal Malna, is an Indonesian activist, writer of prose, poetry, and theatrical texts.
Ismail Marzuki Park,, is an arts, cultural, and science center located at Cikini in Jakarta, Indonesia. Taman Ismail Marzuki complex comprises a number of facilities including six performing arts theaters, cinemas, exhibition hall, gallery, libraries and an archive building. The complex is built on an 9 hectares land area, which was previously a zoo. TIM is named after Ismail Marzuki, one of Indonesia's most influential composers.
Akhudiat was an Indonesian poet, playwright, and humanist.
The National Gallery of Indonesia is an art gallery and museum in Jakarta, Indonesia. The National Gallery of Indonesia has existed as a cultural institution in the field of visual arts since May 8, 1999. The institution plays an important role in expanding public's awareness of artworks through preservation, development and exploitation of the visual arts in Indonesia.
Heri Dono is an Indonesian visual artist as artist painter, sculptor, and installation artist.
Edhi Sunarso, born Sunarso, was an Indonesian sculptor and public artist known for numerous well-known monuments and landmarks found throughout Jakarta, including the Selamat Datang Monument and Dirgantara statue, also called the Pancoran Monument, in Pancoran, South Jakarta. He taught sculpture at Yogyakarta State University and the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta.
The Indonesian New Art Movement, also known as Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru(GSRB) was an art movement of young artists from Bandung and Yogyakarta against the institutional concept of Indonesian fine art (Indonesian: Seni Rupa) being limited to paintings and sculptures. The movement emerged in 1974, first organised in a protest against the judging of the Second Jakarta Painting Biennale which awarded prizes to decorative style of paintings and sculptures. The protesters published the Black December Statement (Desember Hitam) criticising the lack of social and political consciousness in Indonesian decorative art practices.
Professor Yasmine Zaki Shahab, S.S., M.A., Ph.D. is an Indonesian anthropologist. In addition, her interest in Betawi society made her actively doing research and writing the topic about that. To date, Shahab is still active in some matters relating to Betawi culture.
Yoes Rizal rise in Jakarta is an Indonesian contemporary artist painter. He graduated in 1985 from Art & Design at the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), under Indonesian Prof. Muchtar Apin, prof. Kaboel Soeadi, Prof. Ahmad Sadali, Dr Sanento Yuliman, Umi Dachlan and Joan Sommers, American artist and master of Sumi-e.
Misbach Tamrin is an Indonesian artist.
Amrus Natalsya - an Indonesian painter and wood sculpture artist.
Siti Adiyati Subangun, better known as Siti Adiyati, is an Indonesian contemporary artist, educator, writer, and activist. Her work explores issues of social inequality, environmental degradation, and bureaucratic corruption.
Umi Dachlan, born Umajah Dachlan,, was a pioneering Indonesian painter and an art lecturer. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design at the Bandung Institute of Technology ITB in 1968 as the third female graduate, where she also become the first female lecturer. Her work has been described as Abstract expressionism with a figurative Lyricism.
Popo Iskandar was a painter, a prominent Indonesian art educator, literature critic and an essayist.
Jong Batak Bond, sometimes simply called Jong Batak, was a short-lived but influential Batak intellectual organization founded in Batavia, Dutch East Indies in December 1925. Like Budi Utomo, Jong Java and other such organizations, its members consisted of native Indonesian students in Dutch-language schools interested in advancing their ethnic group and Indonesian nationalism at the same time. Notable members of the group include Amir Sjarifuddin Harahap, Todung Sutan Gunung Mulia Harahap, Sanusi Pane, Saleh Said Harahap and Arifin Harahap.
Sriwati Masmundari (1904–2005), often known simply as Masmundari, was an Indonesian visual artist known for her work with a traditional kind of lantern-painting from her birthplace Gresik called damar kurung. She became famous for it very late in life, having her first public exhibition in 1987; by the 1990s her work was featured by national magazines such as Kompas, in national art exhibitions and in the Indonesian Presidential Palace. Her work, which is sometimes described as folk art or Naïve art, often depicted vibrant scenes of celebrations, families, women at work, and so on.
Ahmad Sadali comes from a family with diversified batik and printing businesses. He was an Indonesian painter and art lecturer who is well-known for his abstract art, especially Abstract expressionism, and Cubism and Color field painting. Sadali was among the first and leading students of Ries Mulder, that represented "The Bandung School" of Indonesian art. He is considered one of the most important Indonesian modernist artists, and his works are among the highest priced Indonesian in International art markets. His signature Abstract style expresses elements of nature and spirituality in a bold yet nuanced manner.
The Multatuli Museum is a museum located in Rangkasbitung, Banten, Indonesia. Its focus is the author Multatuli, who lived in the area in the 1850s and used it as the basis for his famous anti-colonial novel Max Havelaar. The museum also examines Dutch East Indies colonial history, the anti-colonial movement, and the local history of Rangkasbitung. There is another Multatuli Museum in Amsterdam which houses many of the author's personal papers.
