Popo Iskandar (17 December 1927 – 29 January 2000) was a painter, a prominent Indonesian art educator, literature critic and an essayist.
Angkama, his older brother who works as a HIS drawing teacher, greatly influenced Popo's interest in painting.
[1] At the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design (FSRD-ITB), he worked alongside artists such as A.D. Pirous, Ahmad Sadali, Mochtar Apin and Umi Dachlan.
However, the influence of Hendra Gunawan's realism was strong enough that in his development, Popo found his own style in painting.
He was elected chairman of BPB Kiwari Bandung in 1960 and a life member of the Jakarta Academy in 1970.