Y.B. Mangunwijaya: The Simplicity of the Sage

Eko Prawoto
Eko Prawoto is an architect based in Bandung.

WHENEVER one crossed Jalan Nyoman Oka in the Kota Baru area of Jogjakarta and saw a strange looking, dark-blue Kijang car with a wooden frame, it was a sign that Romo Mangun was about. I walked towards the little archway painted in myriad colours and moved along the edge of the steep flight of steps turning left in the shelter of the rows of two-story bamboo buildings providing shade. Th

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