National Customes
Aesan Gede South Sumatera traditional costume. This costume is inspired by Sriwijaya kingdom that had triumphed in all regions of South Sumatera.
Sparkling jewels and crown are combined with fabuluous songket fabric define the luxury.
Baju Bodo one of the oldest attires of Indonesia, the tribal women of Sulawesi in Indonesia traditionally wear a rectangular and short-sleeved outfit which is usually popular in bright red and orange colors.
Baju kurung Riau the women of Riau Melay wear shirt called baju kurung with songket sarong.
Balinese Batik inspired by local designs, which are favored by the local Balinese and domestic tourists. Objects from nature such as frangipani and hibiscus flowers, birds or fishes, and daily activities such as Balinese dancer and ngaben processions or religious and mythological creatures such as barong, kala and winged lion are common.
Banjarnese Kebaya the women outfit matched with shawl called as Tapih Bahalel, headdress (Kakamban) added wire flower. Other accessories are Pending (broach), pearl earrings,
three pearl necklace (Samban), and Marjan necklace.
Basahan Clothing the most complete traditional clothing can be found in Keraton Surakarta, Central Java. In ijab procession, the bride wears kebaya and jarik and the groom wears basahan clothing. Basahan consists of kuluk matak petak, dodot bangun tulak, stagen, belt and cinde, white long trousers, keris warangka ladrang and sandal.
Batiak tanah liek clay batik, the Minangkabau people produce batik called which use clay as dye for the fabric. The fabric is immersed in clay for more than one day and later designed with motifs of animal and flora.
Batik fabric is very symbolic in the Indonesian clothing culture, the Javanese people prepare Batik with natural materials like cotton, beeswax and plants from which different vegetable dyes are made. It is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called canting or by printing the resist with a copper stamp called a tjap.
Batik Baduy only employs indigo color in shades ranged from bluish black to deep blue. It is traditionally worn as iket, a type of Sundanese headress similar to Balinese udeng, by Baduy Luar people of Lebak Regency, Banten.
Batik Banten has bright pastel colors and represents a revival of a lost art from the Sultanate of Banten.
Twelve motifs from locations such as Surosowan and several other places have been identified.
Batik Besurek Batik from Bengkulu, a city on west coast of Sumatra, which literary means batik with letters as they draw inspiration from Arabic calligraphy.
Batik sarong worn by women at home or for formal occasions, usually dyed with flower motifs and in bright colours.
Beskap Javanese male traditional clothes. Beskap looks like a formal shirt for men. Usually beskap is worn by men to attend formal programs or important programs. Beskap looks like thick shirt, has no folded collar, and usually has dark colors and plain in motif. The front part of beskap is asymmetric with sideways designed buttons (not upright). Beskap is always worn with sarong.
Blangkon a popular traditional headdress among the Indonesian men which is made of batik fabric.
Some people think that blangkons are believed to derive from turbans worn by Gujarati traders.
Bundo Kanduang The Minangkabau women traditional costume consisting of Tengkuluk (head cover),
Baju Kurung (special dress), Kodek (a chignon), Salempang (a shawl), and jewelry.
Dara Baro traditional clothes of the Aceh women that is a combination of a long-sleeved shirt; the shirt’s collar is unique just like the chinesse shirt’s collar, tight pants and patterned sarong (Ija Pinggang ) is folded up to the knee.
The pattern in the sarong is embroidered by gold.
Worn jewelry is a necklace called Kula. There are also other embellishments such as: hand bracelet, foot bracelets, earrings, and belts (Pending) gold (coloured).
Hinggi Sumba traditional men outfit on the upper part which consists of large sheets of fabric made of tenun ikat.
Ikat or Ikkat a dyeing technique used to pattern textiles that employs a resist dyeing process on the warp fibres, the weft fibres, or in the rare and costly double ikat both warp and weft, prior to dyeing and weaving. In ikat, the resist is formed by binding bundles of threads with a tight wrapping applied in the desired pattern. The threads are then dyed. The bindings may then be altered and the thread bundles dyed again with another color to produce elaborate, multicolored patterns. When the dyeing is finished the bindings are removed and the threads are woven into cloth.
Ineun mayak women’s traditional wedding dress from Gayo, Aceh Tenggara, explores the wealth of white thread embroidery technique, red, yellow and green.
Jarik Central Java traditional costume; long cloths worn by men made of batik fabric. Women also wear jarik on the lower part while for the upper part body they wear cotton or other type of kebaya which made of lace and velvet.
Javanese Coastal batik produced in several areas of northern Java and Madura. In contrast to inland batik, coastal batiks have vibrant colors and patterns inspired by a wide range of cultures as a consequence of maritime trading. Recurring motifs include European flower bouquets, Chinese phoenix, and Persian peacocks. Coastal batiks are produced in Pekalongan, Cirebon, Lasem, Tuban, and Madura.
Javanese Inland batik batik kraton (Javanese court batik) is the oldest form of batik tradition known in Java. Inland batik has earthy color such as black, indigo, brown, and sogan (brown- yellow color made from the tree peltophorum pterocarpum), sometimes against a white background, with symbolic patterns that are mostly free from outside influence. Certain patterns are reserved for royalty, while others are worn on specific occasions.
Jawi Jangkep the complete Javanese male clothing, especially for royal families that are floral beskap, with blangkon, stagen, keris, and sandal.
Jia Lamgugap Aceh sarong which is folded on the waist to be dashing. This sarong is made of silk.
Kaciak a chest cloth as the complementary for Minangkabau men dress consisting of a loose shirt and a wide trouser.
Kain Tenun hand woven garments prepared with length wise and cross wise threads made with wood-fiber, cotton or silk and have iconic importance in the Indonesian heritage.
Kamen Gold painted ornaments portraying figures from the great Hindu epics are common in the Balinese apparels from headdress or udeng for males to waist clothes and long clothes.
Kebaya the national costume of Indonesia, a traditional blouse-dress combination that originates from Indonesia, sometimes made from sheer material such as silk, thin cotton or semi- transparent nylon or polyester, adorned with brocade or floral pattern embroidery. A kebaya is usually worn with a sarong or batik kain panjang, or other traditional woven garment such as ikat, songket with a colorful motif.
Kemben basahan in Panggih procession (Javanese wedding procession) is an open shoulder clothing style, and body wears some kind like bustier.
Kemben is used to cover the chest compeleted with dodot cloth uses batik with alas-alasan motifs, with 4-5 meters length.
King Baba male Dayak traditional costume of West Kalimantan made of tree bark.
King Bibinge Dayak traditional outfit for women. The costume made of tree bark that processed to be soft with accessories on the head called tengkulas with Ruai bird feather.
Koteka the traditional costume of native inhabitants of Papua. It is deeply influenced by Papua New Guinea traditions which are geographically close to Indonesia’s Papua. Koteka is Papua’s indigenous product in which is solely owned by tribal people in Papua, only worn by Asmat, Yali and Dani tribes who generally dwell in the mountains. Koteka is clothing to cover the genitals of men.
Lau Sumba traditional women outfit on the upper part which consists of large sheets of fabric made of tenun ikat. Women wear headgear as accessories.
Laung Tajak Siak Banjarnese men’s headdress that has the triangle form. It is made of velvet not only as a head cover but also believed as amulet to resist misfortune.
Linto Baro traditional clothes for Aceh Men with a combination of Baje Meukasah or closed neck suits. There is golden embroidery adorning the shirt’s collar. This suit comes with trousers called Wease, and Rencong (dagger) or Siwah is tucked on the belt.
Meukeutop the Aceh man headdress that is similar to kopiah (traditional cap). Meukeutap is ridden by Tangkulok or Tompok of gold. Tangkulok is made of a woven fabric. Tompok is an 8 star square ornate and is made of precious metals
Minang Songket a traditional cloth consists of silk robes with metallic thread woven into the material. Their headdress is shaped like buffalo horns.
Peci also known as songkok or kopiah, are traditionally male Muslim's cap. In Indonesia, the black velvet peci has been the national headdress popularized by Sukarno. Numbers of Indonesian nationalist movement activists in early 20th century wore peci such as Sukarno, Muhammad Hatta, and Agus Salim. Indonesian male presidents always wear peci as part of their official presidential attire.
Rumbai alang-alang traditional custome for Papua women; a skirt-type looking made of dried palm leaves or coconut fiber. There are birds feather used as accessories for the bracelet and necklace. They usually used paradise bird feathers as accessories for their clothing.
Safe mayak Gayo men’s wedding dress with headdress pengkah, which also functions where the plug change. Another element is a white shirt, tangang, string bracelet on the arm, rings, sarongs, flirtatious rante, pants, and a kind of hump dagger tucked in the waist.
Saluak Batimba the head cloth for Minangkabau men.
Sarong a fabric similar to Dhoti or Dhuti of South Asia which a large tube or length of cloth, often wrapped around the waist and worn by men and women particularly in the rural areas. Indonesian men generally wear it at home. In public, the sarong is worn only when attending Friday prayers at the mosque. For formal national occasions, the men wear batik shirts with trousers or teluk beskap, a combination of the Javanese jacket and sarong.
Sasirangan Banjarnese fabric derived from the Banjar word sirang or menyirang meaning “to stitch together” which illustrates the delicate process of hand stitching and weaving of the traditional fabric. The method in making Sasirangan is
similar to that in Javanese Batik, which applies the barrier coloring process. The difference is that Sasirangan uses barrier cloth such as string or yarn instead of wax and ‘canting’. The artist stitches the pre-made patterns on cloths, then bind the required patterns with string to avoid contamination with other colors, the fabric then dipped in dyes.
Selendang a long stretch of cloth drapped over one shoulder. This cloth can be used as a head shawl or on less formal occasions, also used to carry babies or objects.
Songket a fabric that belongs to the brocade family of textiles of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. It is hand-woven in silk or cotton, and intricately patterned with gold or silver threads. The metallic threads stand out against the background cloth to create a shimmering effect. In the weaving process the metallic threads are inserted in between the silk or cotton weft (latitudinal) threads in a technique called supplementary weave.
Sumatran Batik coastal batik from northern Java probably influenced Jambi batik due to trade relations between the Melayu Kingdom in Jambi and Javanese coastal cities have thrived since the 13th century.
Sundanese or Priangan Batik the term for batik from the Priangan region of West Java and Banten. Although Priangan batiks can use a wide range of colors, a preference for indigo is seen in some of its variants. Priangan batik is produced in Ciamis, Garut, and Tasikmalaya.
Taluk Balanga and Salawar traditional costumes consist of a shirt and long trouser for the Banjarnese men from South of Borneo (Kalimantan Selatan).
Tanjak also called Setanjak, is actually a head wrap cloth usually worn by the Indonesian men. It is a long folded garment with magnificent embroidery and considered as a typical formal clothing accessory. In the wedding ceremonies the grooms wear Tanjak with pride.
Tapis Lampung typical traditional fabric. It is a manually woven fabric. Traditionally, Lampung textiles are used as part of religious ceremonies such as weddings and circumcisions. The type of the ceremony will determine which Tapis cloth should be worn. For instance, in wedding ceremony Tapis is combined with accessories and headdress for both groom and bride.
Teluk Belanga the Malay men's outfit with some accessories such as tanjak (head covers), sampin
(cloth), keris (creese), and selop (sandals) as a footwear.
Ulap Doyo the Dayaks trademark fabric are worn by women of the indigenous people of Borneo in Indonesia, well-known for their colorful traditional costume. The traditional dresses are made from doyo leaves or tree barks, matched with ketau or tapeh made also from doyo leaves.
Ulos Bataknese unique clothes such a special Batak shawl. Ulos is used for greet a guest, in a marriage or one's birth. Different kinds of ulos have different ceremonial significance. The ulos is normally worn draped over the shoulder or shoulders, or in weddings to ceremonially bind the bride and groom together. Ulos are traditionally hand woven and in the case of higher-quality examples are significant family heirlooms, to be worn at important events, such as funerals and weddings.