Product Description: Songket textiles are gleaming prestige cloths created when hand-loom weavers add metal-wrapped threads across the weft to build up intricate motif bands of geometric and botanical designs. The supplementary wefts are gold-wrapped silk or fine cotton yarns; silver-wrapped threads are also found in some of Indonesia s old songket weaving regions...read more

Product Description: This study presents the text and first English translation of a book published in Batak in 1941 by the novelist and newspaperman M. J. Soetan Hasoendoetan. Based on a Sumatran turi-turian or chanted epic of Datuk Tuongku, it gave southern Batak readers a great literary epic of their own to claim within Indies literatures...read more

Product Description: These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain from Dutch control, these unusually insightful narratives recall the authors' boyhoods in rural Toba Batak and Minangkabau villages...read more

Product Description: This book is an interesting look at Indonesian religions in today's world as they are relevant in the lives of the Indonesian culture.