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Frangipani in the City

Monday, December 8, 2025

The frangipani flower, or kemboja, is an ancient crossing between cultures. In Jakarta, it has become nothing more than yard waste.

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SOMEONE placed a frangipani flower on top of Sahabat, a collection of poems by Agam Wispi published in 1959. The book is part of the Pabrikultur reading room installation collection at S. Sudjojono Gallery in Taman Ismail Marzuki, as part of the Jakarta International Literary Festival 2025 exhibition on November 13-16, 2025. Agam Wispi was a poet and a member of Lembaga Kebudayaan Rakyat (Institute for the People’s Culture), or Le

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