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Indonesian Tattoos

2 messages · last activity 4/25/2007

Hi, I live in Indonesia and am looking to get a new tattoo which blends Scotland and Indonesia, i have ideas for the scottish aspects of the tattoo but i'm having a terrible time finding ideas representing Indonesian tattoo art, even living here, local tatto artists tend to just do very western desings, can anyone help??
If you're in Jakarta, you'll already know that Indonesia consists of a bunch of widely disparate cultures and consequently any traditional tattoo style will be of that culture rather tham "Indonesian". Any particular style?...I've always been drawn to the Iban stuff from Borneo/Kalimantan (my uncle had some from when he was up there in WWII). I recall that I've seen other stuff on the net, but I think that the govt there actively repressed tattooing (esp in Java) so a lot of the traditional stuff died out.