The Mathematics of Batik. Science and Culture in a Digital World.

Digitalisation has enabled rich recording of the diversity of Indonesian culture. It has also generated fascinating explanations about the dynamic relationship between science and Indonesian cultural phenomena.

Hokky Situngkir, Surya University researcher and founder of Bandung Fe Institute visiting, the pre-historic site of ‘Gunung Padang’ in Cianjur, in early 2020. Source: Supplied. Photo courtesy Hokky Situngkir/Cianjur, West Java early 2020.

Making batik is a complex mathematical and geometrical exercise – Getty Images. Increasingly mathematical approaches are being used to explain the process and t Source: Photo credit: Getty Images/iStockphotos

In National Science Week, Hokky Situngkir, an Indonesian researcher at Surya University, founder of the Bandung Fe Institute and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ‘Sobat Budaya’ Foundation, talks about the changing understandings of science and our lives.

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