An Arabic-Javanese writing system used by scholars during wartime is at risk of being forgotten. Pegon is an Arabic-Javanese writing system that was used by Javanese Islamic scholars during ...

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JAKARTA: Diaz Nawaksara grew up during the rise of the Internet and telecommunications. When the 30-year-old went to college, he decided to study information management, focusing on storing ...

Two copies of Menak Amir Hamza, the Javanese story of Amir Hamza, the uncle of the prophet Muhammad, are now available online through the Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitisation Project. The ...

AT the Michael Janssen gallery in Gillman Barracks, you'll find 22 large paintings - 1.55m wide and 2.5m tall; almost the height of an average Singapore apartment - which bear the iconic Christian ...

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