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on Art (especially Indonesia's contemporary artscene!)

Indonesia has several art biennales: Jakarta Biennale, Yogya Biennale and Makassar Biennale. Since 2017, they have coordinated to hold the biennale in the same time. This way they can create greater momentum for international audience to visit as they can travel to three different biennales in the same time.

My personal favorite is Jakarta Biennale. Of course I am very much bias as Jakarta is my hometown. But on my defense, they have worked very creatively with spaces that they actually even held once their biggest exhibition in a basement parking lot! The past two biennales were exhibited mainly in a big hall that was a warehouse, deeply hidden in the center of Jakarta. They work a lot with local community too that I find many of the artworks to be very refreshing and so easy to relate to.

Check out Jakarta Biennale's website here: http://jakartabiennale.net/en/home/

Yogya Biennale: http://biennalejogja.org/2017/

Makassar Biennale: http://makassarbiennale.org

some pictures from Jakarta Biennale 2017