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Wall Street Journal
31-07-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Global Trade Raised Living Standards for Millions. New Barriers Are Reversing the Trend.
Pekalongan, Indonesia—When modern textile factories opened in this small city on the Java Sea in the 1990s, life was transformed overnight. Rice farmers and buffalo herders earned enough money sewing clothes for Americans to swap thatch houses for concrete ones and send their kids to universities. By 2022, the transformation stalled and factories started closing down. Cheaper Chinese competitors were boxing Indonesian producers out of foreign markets.
CNA
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNA
CNA938 Rewind - Stitching Stories: Three Generations of Batik Nyonyas
In 'Culture Club' Melanie Oliveiro finds out more about the Peranakan Museum's ongoing exhibition 'Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship'. Curator Naomi Wang will explain how the exhibition steps into the lives of three batik makers turned master artists from Pekalongan in Java, Indonesia, a celebrated batik centre of the early 20th century. Wang will talk about the creative lives of Nyonya Oeij Soen King, her daughter-in-law Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, and her granddaughter Jane Hendromartono. Wang will also discuss the history of batik making as a dynamic process and art form, and new ways of thinking about entrepreneurship.
