HARYANTO ADIKOESOEMO

utfitted in a crisp, jay-blue suit complemented with a narrow black tie and pocket square, Haryanto Adikoesoemo welcomed more than 100 guests to a darkened ballroom at Jakarta’s Ritz-Carlton Pacific Place hotel. It was August 2019, and Museum MACAN was holding its first gala. Seated around candlelit tables, each festooned with a pair of dramatically arched, feathered wings, the audience included some of the capital’s elite, who had been gathered for an evening of sartorial peacocking and, as the jovial chairman unabashedly emphasized during his brief welcoming remarks, fundraising. All proceeds from the night’s auction were to go toward the Museum MACAN Foundation, which manages the three-year-old museum and Adikoesoemo’s collection of