Restu Imansari Kusumaningrum, an independent producer, has an extensive background both in Indonesia and abroad in her two major life-long fields of study: dance and theater performance and landscape architecture.
She is a recipient of an Order “Ordine della Stella d’Italia” from Italian Government for her role in promoting cultural and social ties between Italy and Indonesia.
Co-founder of the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts and director of PT Bumi Purnati Indonesia, Restu has used her background to develop Indonesian art and culture.
The Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, known in Indonesian as the Yayasan Bali Purnati was founded in 1999 as an international non-profit cultural foundation dedicated to the preservation, promotion, presentation and creation of new directions in the performing, visual and design arts. It is also a center devoted to the documentation – in words, pictures and film – of traditional and new artworks.
This scenic and serene cultural foundation is strategically located on the Indonesian island of Bali in the Batuan area of South Bali’s Gianyar regency. Batuan is a locale which has for long been renowned for its classical and contemporary music, dance, painting, woodcarving, stone sculpture and other cultural forms. The place-name Purnati, the exact site of this center, refers in the Balinese language to a “whole” or “pure heart”.