‘Like a common language’: Batik’s role in Singapore’s diplomacy

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their choice of dress also represented regional solidarity and cultural connection between the two countries

Wearing batik is not just about fashion and trends,...It communicates familiarity and understanding, and represents an alignment with the cultural aesthetics of the wider Nusantara, he said. Nusantara is an old Javanese term used to refer to both the Indonesian archipelago and the wider Malay archipelago.....It is a gesture of cultural camaraderie and a point where we can come together, despite differences

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Qn: Fashion is as much a good thing as a bad thing. To what extent do you agree? (Cam. 2009)