Wasp

 
These beautiful and yet dangerous looking creatures are actually quite harmless moths, tiger moths in fact, of the tribe arctiini and genus amata. As for species, these moths are extremely difficult to identify that far. I actually have ten different amata moths that I simply cannot identify.
 
The internet is a wonderful and informative place, but when it comes to bug identification it is a minefield of miss-information. No amateur bugger like myself, likes to be defeated and not have an official name for their trophy, but sometimes you have to accept that you are not going to get beyond genus level.
 
It only takes one eejit out there to incorrectly identify his prize, then all the other semi-eejits use his ID for their own. Before long, this incorrect ID becomes the accepted.
 
For those of you trying to ID your bug, Flockr is not an accepted ID source, no matter how may hundreds of examples you find, nor is Google search images. Wiki is actually pretty good. The best sites are run by groups of enthusiastic entomology scientists, who keep everyone in line and prevent this infestation of mis-identification. Sites like Bugguide for USA, Brisbane insects of Australia, Project Noah is a very good general site and a good place to start. But, even this list of reputable sites are not faultless.
 
The big boys of identifications are obviously the museums and the professional buggers, but these people are not interested in photography and tend to treat us amateur buggers with a measure of disdain, they are about as useful, generally, as a chocolate fireguard, there are exceptions though; the people at the Papua insects foundation and bugs of Sumatra are professionals and extremely helpful and genuinely interested in your finds.
 
So, I will accept my ID to genus level for my collection of amata moths and move on.

Update - I have found one other image of this moth on the web and that too was photographed in Bandung. This is likely a very localized sub-species, but we will never know for sure. Still no species name, possibly not even recorded.
 
Dave