Many international events used Batik as the uniform for all the country leaders for all those events. Such as APEC on 1994, Iwan Tirta and Adjie Notonegoro are a few names which always be the batik designer on some international events. Is Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa, proudly wearing a batik shirt on various occasions. Among other things, during his first speech as President of South Africa (May 1994), the official FIFA event in Zurich, Switzerland, to receive the relay host the World Cup (early June 2006), Launch of the Association of Former World Leaders, The Elders (July of 2007 ), and various other formal events. It turned out that not only Mandela, but there is also a mother of U.S. President Barack Obama, namely Ann Durham.