Another exciting and demanding year nears its end. The international broker OctaFX grasps the opportunity to recount its very own ‘2021’ one that also marked the company’s 10th anniversary. Looking back on it, the company and its departments have much to be proud of.
Recently, the government facilitated a meeting between small business owners from Buleleng, Klungkung, and Tabanan districts and international investors .
Sejarah mencatat masyarakat Indonesia pernah bersatu menghadapi masalah bangsa, yakni melawan penjajah. Usaha masyarakat tidak sia-sia, Indonesia akhirnya berhasil mencapai kemerdekaan dan mengusir penjajah dari Bumi Pertiwi.
Virtual Workings | PERTIWI : Resilience in the arts
Participants of the online residency Virtual Workings Kamiliah Bahdar from Singapore and Savitri Sastrawan from Indonesia worked together on “Pertiwi” under the mentorship of Luckana Kunavichayanont. The two curators talk about the project’s development and working virtually with a mentor in their final article below.
Resilience is one of those words and concepts that is very hard to pin down, but also perhaps because of that, it is a term used in many contexts from ecology and economy to psychology, and a favourite between us, the name of the stimulus package in Singapore named the Resilience Budget, with its subset, the Arts and Culture Resilience Package. While the dictionary definition seems to capture something of the essence of its meaning, the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, and the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape yet it remains very open-ended. These qualities
Drawing inspiration from Indonesian decorative motifs, Pertiwi is a new ornamental typeface by Projek Agni
Designed to represent the duality of the Indonesian Archipelago and its relationship with mother earth and sea, Pertiwi is an ode to Indonesian past, present and future culture.
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In 2018, a group of design and branding artisans came together to form the creative initiative Projek Agni; Agni is derived from the Sanskrit word for fire, “god of fire”, will power and origin of civilisation. Born out of the group’s enjoyment of Indonesia in which they reside, Projek Agni exists to transform diverse cultural values into new and integrated creative assets. The group consists of creative directors Kresna Dwitomo and Bima Saprilla, type designers Wisnu Adhi Kusama and Hammam Hidayat, and writers Jasmine Ansori and UV Asriwedari. All of which grew up in different regions of the country from Sumatera, Riau, East Java and Banyuwangi.