@sambunghambar  is a project that was initiated by Testa Siregar and Syaura Qotrunadha, two fine art photography students living in different countries and looking for a way to collaborate. @sambunghambar began as a platform for them to play exquisite corpse, connected through Instagram’s hashtag system so that anyone could freely join in. When Instagram later changed its hashtag preview layout, the pair responded by creating their own @sambunghambar account and began developing the concept further, eventually expanding it into offline formats.

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The offline version of the project is carried forward by Syaura as a series of interactive parody figures, installations, and video works with participatory activities that address forgotten histories and the shortcomings of Indonesia’s education system. The first offline project invited audiences to apply for their own Sambunghambar Repooblik Identity Card (Cartao Tandha Pendatang), produced from recycled thesis papers. The cards featured original loanwords from other languages that continue to be used in daily Indonesian. These words, historically taught in schools to be memorized and rewritten in “proper” Indonesian, have been passed down through generations, even up to the highest levels of formal education.

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The central idea of @sambunghambar remains present in this expanded project: connecting multiple fragments into a single abstract form that invites further interdisciplinary collaborations and the exploration of broader ideas.