The East Java city of Malang is set to name three types of trees as heritage objects. According to a report by kompas.com, the three trees to be included on the list are the monkeypod tree ...

As Labrador discusses Malang’s paintings, I ask him how he feels ... Who finds beauty in lamp posts, banana trees, church spires, watermelons or in a woman’s baro’t saya?

Malang began painting barong-barongs early in his career ... He also tried painting flowers and trees, but he has found his niche in rendering women, all at once firmly built and fragile.