BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Puji Yosep Subagiyo was born  in Purworejo, Central Java. Since 1986, Subagiyo has worked for the National Museum of Indonesia, Ministry of Education and Culture.  He is now a senior conservator and  textile curator in charge. Presently, this ICOM (International Council of Museums) member is also  a visiting conservator  at  the Conservation Laboratory of the Jakarta Metropolitan Museums, and the State Palace’s museums.

Subagiyo has an educational background of conservation sciences of Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties (TNRICP, Japan, 1989/90).  Furthermore, Subagiyo completed professional experience - for both skill development and knowledge enhancement  in the field of textile conservation - at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution (CAL/SI, Washington D.C., 1991/ 92) and International Fabricare Institute (IFI, Maryland District, USA, 1992). He also has taken  intensive courses on wood conservation, metal conservation, textile conservation, leather conservation, dye analysis, display materials and exhibitions, and other courses in his home country and abroad.

Through research, Subagiyo and co-workers studied the gilded cloth (kain prada), mordanted cloth (for batik and jumputan), and metal threaded cloth (kelim/ tapestry, pilih, songket, sungkit, etc) at TNRICP of Japan. Then, Subagiyo accelerated the result at CAL/SI of Washington D.C. and the National Museum of Jakarta. He studied the crocking tests for Early Synthetic Dyes,  the tensile strength of ‘prada’ binder, the ingredient ‘jangkang-kepuh’ of prada, and tested the color changing of Indonesian Natural Dyes. He actively writes articles and participates in the activities relating to conservation of cultural material in national, regional or international forums.

This holder of ‘Unesco Fellowship Awards’ from 1989 to 1992 has taken a great opportunity in his field of discipline in the United States of America. He  visited  the conservation laboratories at museums of New York City, Harrisburg and Washington D.C. (i.e. Conservation Centre of NYU, Metropolitan Museum of Arts, National Gallery, Textile Museum, etc.). He demonstrated the para-red dyeing (which is principally similar to ‘mengkudu’ dyeing) at Carnegie Mellon College of Maryland; and took part in the physical examination of color changing of (astronout) spacesuits at Garber Facility, the National Air and Space Museum (NASA) at Washington D.C.

Subagiyo has computer knowledge (PC and Macintosh), knows programs for word-processing, spread-sheets, (stand-alone, clients/server and web enabled) relational-databases, publishing, multimedia, web designing (internet) and networking. In his present post, Subagiyo is managing the collections of National Museum, the Jakarta Metropolitan Museums and the Presidential Palaces. He is now conducting the inventorial works in special databases and has established the inventory system with textual data and multimedia running on PC and Macintosh. His classification and his inventory system are directed toward research, conservation, exhibition, etc.

Presently, Subagiyo and his colleagues works at a private conservation Primastoria Studio for textiles, paintings, metals, and most ethnographic objects.                                                                                     

Address:

Taman Alamanda, Blok BB2 No. 55-59, Bekasi 17510, Indonesia

Tel. (021) 33035356.    HP.  08128360495, 08561341619.  

Email: masyosep@hotmail.com 

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Updated:  31 Juli 2008