Indonesia's president is pressing the country's 234 million people to wear batik clothes to celebrate a triumph over neighbour Malaysia in a poisonous feud over cultural heritage.
The UN cultural organisation Unesco is set this week to add Indonesia's method of making the cloth - through a laborious process of wax-dipping and dyeing to its list of the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has instructed Indonesians to celebrate the day the decision becomes official,tomorrow, by donning their best shirts,dresses, blouses and sarongs made from the material.
"I urge Indonesians wherever they are to wear batik on Oct 2," Mr Yudhoyono was quoted as saying by state news agency Antara.
Mr Yudhoyono said the country should have a "batik party" to let the world know that the artform comes from Indonesia.
Many Indonesians say the use of batik techniques and motifs by Malaysians is outright plagiarism.
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