Having a ball in Bali? Obama gives lukewarm reaction to wearing traditional Indonesian shirt on visit to southeast Asia By LAURIE WHITWELL FOR THE DAILY MAIL Updated: 15:07 EDT, 18 November 2011 ...

Batik, the shirt that I am proudly wearing today, is the leading icon of the Indonesian creative industry. Batik reached its golden age in Indonesia, from generation to generation, Indonesians ...

Mandela, who died on Thursday, was first introduced to the costume in the 1990s after he was given a batik shirt as a souvenir during a visit to Indonesia shortly after his installation as South ...

He had the courage to wear batik during a United Nations’ session. Even I might have had doubts wearing a batik shirt and speaking before the audience at a UN meeting. Some of Mandela’s batik shirts ...

By showing coupons from the consulate, Indonesian visitors will only have to pay half the regular price of HKD 265 (US$34). According to the consulate's data, as many as 464,406 Indonesians ...

The batik shirt was invented as a formal non-Western shirt for men in Indonesia in the 1960s and was adopted by the new African leaders, and later on, Nelson Mandela.

Some of Mandela’s batik shirts were designed by Indonesian batik maestro Iwan Tirta. In South Africa, the batik came to be known as the Madiba shirt.

Batik is an Indonesian technique for dying a cloth. Musk's choice of attire was all the rage as he’s mostly seen donning a suit or black t-shirts during his business trips or at his company’s ...

Sitting in the dark, wearing a traditional Indonesian batik shirt and surrounded by candles, Elon Musk offered a vision for the future. Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk offers a vision of the ...

Mandela’s love of batik was also shown when he attended official events, such as the launch of the group of world-renowned senior figures formed to tackle global issues named, ‘The Elders’ in June ...

President Obama joined world leaders for a gala dinner in Cambodia Monday with “strongman” Prime Minister Hun Sen. The leaders donned traditional Batik shirts for the occasion. According to ...