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Sita’s stories: A Plate of Fried Rice

By: Sita van Bemmelen A Plate of Fride Rice by Sita van Bemmelen Yesterday, I drove my older sister-in-law, Mbok Raka, to my youngest sister-in-law’s house. I always love to go to my stout and cheerful...

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Sita’s stories: The Magic of the Mobile Phone

By: Sita van Bemmelen There is no doubt about it: the mobile phone has conquered the world. Even in remote and poor villages on the island of Bali, people have succumbed to its magic. The first group...

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Re: Christianity in Indonesia – 1

By: Peter Cohen A 12th Century Christian Egyptian record of churches suggest that a church was established in Barus, on the west coast of North Sumatra, a trading post known to have been frequented by...

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Re: Christianity in Indonesia – 2

By: Peter Cohen Indonesia has become steadily more Islamic since Suharto’s second term, notwithstanding the pseudo-secular Megawati (who actually aligned the PDI-P with the PPP and other Islamic...

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Indo-Rock: An Indo-European Hybrid

By: Chandra Drews Never mind Elvis Presley and Bill Haley, the Tielman Brothers and their fellow Indo-rockers really rocked Europe in the 1950s. Pretty much forgotten in Western Europe and generally...

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Experience food in Indonesia

By: Elena Born When expats make plans of going to Indonesia, they usually imagine the busy streets of Jakarta, with their vibrant atmosphere and traces of colonial history, or beautiful Bali, with its...

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Indonesian Rock – A Documentation of Change

By: Chandra Drews The story of the development of rock music in Indonesia is tightly related to the cultural and political changes the country faced in the last 50 years. Rock during the Sukarno Years...

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Up & Coming: Two Jakarta Based Indie Hot Shots

By: Chandra Drews Jirapah, By: Avianto Finally finding something that you’ve been searching for some time (yet always knew existed) can cause quite the adrenaline rush. I recently returned to Jakarta...

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Gamelan, a true Indonesian invention!

  By: Chandra Drews gamelan Gamelan: A Distinctly Indonesian Thing Mention ‘Indonesian Music’ to most folks in the Western hemisphere (or anywhere else come to that) and ‘Gamelan’ would be one of the...

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Inside the Keraton of Yogyakarta

By: Rohman Yuliawana Photo by Donsimon Keraton Yogyakarta is located in the south of the city. The walled complex covers fourteen hectares and consists of dozens of eclectic buildings arranged in a...

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17,000 Islands of Imagination

Features a perspective of Indonesia few have seen: from the air. From the window of a commercial airliner in flight, Indonesia is a carpet of green fields and blue seas. But from a low-flying aircraft,...

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Up & Coming: Two Jakarta Based Indie Hot Shots

By Chandra Drews Jirapah, By: Avianto Finally finding something that you’ve been searching for some time (yet always knew existed) can cause quite the adrenaline rush. I recently returned to Jakarta...

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Sumatra is Amazing!

by Dalih Sembiring Sumatra, also spelled Sumatera, is in its entirety Indonesia’s largest island. One may say that Kalimantan or Papua is larger, but those two islands are shared with other countries....

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Sita’s stories: The Magic of the Mobile Phone

By: Sita van Bemmelen There is no doubt about it: the mobile phone has conquered the world. Even in remote and poor villages on the island of Bali, people have succumbed to its magic. The first group...

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Sumatra is Amazing!

by Dalih Sembiring Sumatra is in its entirety Indonesia’s largest island. One may say that Kalimantan or Papua is larger, but those two islands are shared with other countries. It has been suggested...

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Sumbawa by Motorbike

by Ed Caffin   Benhurs around Pasar Alas, By: Ed Caffin Apart from the legendary surf spots at Maluk and Lakey Peak, few see more of Sumbawa. Mostly, it is only observed from behind the window of a...

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Re: Christianity in Indonesia – 1

By: Peter Cohen A 12th Century Christian Egyptian record of churches suggest that a church was established in Barus, on the west coast of North Sumatra, a trading post known to have been frequented by...

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Inside the Keraton of Yogyakarta

By: Rohman Yuliawana Keraton Yogyakarta is located in the south of the city. The walled complex covers fourteen hectares and consists of dozens of eclectic buildings arranged in a concentric pattern,...

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Gugun Blues Shelter: “Make Blues the Rice of Music”

By: Angela Richardson   Gugun Blues Shelter in front of The Big Ben Blues musicians are generally known for playing covers and recycling existing songs, which in turn gives this genre a certain stigma...

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Retronesia

by Tariq Khalil Retronesia is a unique style guide: Indonesia as seen through classic 1950s buildings. Captivating photography and postcard-sized stories revive the once-prestigious places that...

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