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The Indonesian Kuntilanak is similar to the Pontianak in Malaysia, but commonly takes the form of a bird and sucks the blood of virgins and young women. The bird, which makes a "Ke-ke-ke" sound as it flies, may be sent through black magic to make a woman fall ill; [3] the characteristic symptom being vaginal bleeding.
Kemben (Javanese: ꦏꦼꦩ꧀ꦧꦼꦤ꧀, Indonesian: kemban) is an Indonesian female torso wrap historically common in Java, Bali, and other parts of the Indonesian archipelago. It is made by wrapping a piece of kain (clothes), either plain, batik printed, velvet, or any type of fabrics, covering the chest wrapped around the woman's torso. [3]
In Indonesian mythology, a sundel bolong, is a mythical ghost from the archipelago which is a woman with beautiful long black hair and a long white dress (her form is similar to Pontianak). The myth is closely linked to prostitutes, meaning a "prostitute with a hole in her", in reference to the large hole which is said to appear in her back.
The peci or songkok is the national formal head-dress worn by men all over Indonesia, usually worn by government officials. Men's head-dress are usually made of traditional fabrics, while women's head-dress often consists of metal jewelries sometimes decorated with floral arrangements. Examples of different head-dress across the country are:
Sukarno among Indonesian women in kebaya during Indonesian Women Congress, 1950 In WWII internment camps of the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies , Indonesian female prisoners refused to wear the Western dress allocated to them and instead wore kebaya as a display of nationalist and racial solidarity to separate them from fellow ...
Irma Priscilla Hardisurya (born July 6, 1947) is an Indonesian consultant, writer, journalist and beauty queen.She was crowned as the first-ever Miss Indonesia in 1969 and represented Indonesia in the 1970 Miss Asia Quest beauty pageant in the Philippines, winning the title of Miss Friendship. [1]
In both Indonesia and Malaysia a major fashion industry has blossomed around the tudong, with a wide variety of colours and styles as well as the use of buttoned raincoats such as the jilbab, long dresses, and accessories to complement the tudong. Many women also simply wear it with Western-style jeans and T-shirts.
In 2020, Rizky Febian invited Anya Geraldine to become a model for the video clip in the "Garis Cinta" trilogy. Her first video clip for song "Cuek", got 7 million views in ten days and made it to Indonesia's YouTube trending. [10] After the success of the trilogy, she is rumored to be collaborating again with Rizky Febian on a song. [11]