Artists from elsewhere in Indonesia
tended to study and work through the main outlets for art in Java.
Three Sumatran-born examples are Dolorosa Sinaga, an important
sculptor (one of the few women artists to achieve an influential
position in the arts) and lecturer at the art school in Jakarta, IKJ;
painter Semsar Siahaan; and Pirous, also a painter from Aceh
(Sumatra), who taught at ITB in Bandung.