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  • This is the same with male headdresses from regions in Java that use different kinds of batik cloth, like the blangkon and bendo of Sunda, West Java.

    The Jakarta Post Breaking News 2009

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  • Thanks, bilby. :-)

    April 17, 2008

  • I was wearing one of these when I got married. Hard to forget anything as disastrous as that :-(

    April 17, 2008

  • Traditional headwear of the Yogya and Solo regions of Indonesia. The Yogya blangkon has a rounded knob at the back while the Solo one is flat.

    April 17, 2008

  • No kidding? Must have been a very interesting ceremony. :-)

    Me, I always go with Hawaiian shirts for formal occasions.

    April 18, 2008

  • See also destar.

    April 18, 2008