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  2. Batik - Wikipedia

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    Batik is a dyeing technique using wax resist. The term is also used to describe patterned textiles created with that technique. Batik is made by drawing or stamping wax on a cloth to prevent colour absorption during the dyeing process. This creates a patterned negative when the wax is removed from the dyed cloth.

  3. Kartini - Wikipedia

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    Soesalit Djojoadhiningrat. Signature. Raden Adjeng Kartini, also known as Raden Ayu Kartini (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904), [a] was a prominent Indonesian activist who advocated for women's rights and female education. She was born into an aristocratic Javanese family in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).

  4. Wayang - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Wayang (Javanese: ꦮꦪꦁ, romanized: wayang) is a traditional form of puppet theatre play originating from the Indonesian island of Java. [1][2][3] Wayang refers to the entire dramatic show. Sometimes the leather puppet itself is referred to as wayang. [4] Performances of wayang puppet theatre are accompanied by a gamelan orchestra ...

  5. Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Lucubrationes, 1541 edition, one of the first books to use a variant of the word encyclopedia in the title. An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopaedia (British English) [1] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. [2][3 ...

  6. Undang - Wikipedia

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    The Undang Yang Empat (Negeri Sembilan Malay: Undang Nan Ompek; Jawi: أوندڠ يڠ امڤت) are the ruling chiefs or territorial chiefs who play an important role in the election of a new Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The name is believed to be derived from the Malay word undang-undang meaning "law".

  7. Unani medicine - Wikipedia

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    Unani or Yunani medicine (Urdu: طب یونانی tibb yūnānī[1]) is Perso-Arabic traditional medicine as practiced in Muslim culture in South Asia and modern day Central Asia. Unani medicine is pseudoscientific. [2][3] The Indian Medical Association describes Unani practitioners who claim to practice medicine as quacks. [4]

  8. A. Samad Said - Wikipedia

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    Abdul Samad bin Mohamed Said (born 9 April 1935) [1] [2] is a Malaysian novelist and poet. In May 1976, he was named by Malaysia literature communities and many of the country's linguists as the Pejuang Sastera [Literary Exponent] receiving, within the following decade, the 1979 Southeast Asia Write Award and, in 1986, in appreciation of his continuous writings and contributions to the nation ...

  9. Aquaman (film) - Wikipedia

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    Aquaman is a 2018 American superhero film based on the DC character of the same name. Co-produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the sixth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by James Wan from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall, it stars Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry / Aquaman, who sets ...