This is IT.
Well… in case you have not heard the news Michael Jackson is dead. All the news channels are covering the event ad nausuem. I am certain, in short order, the news will filter to as far as Kalabahi on Alor island or to Wetar island where the Wetar Ground-dove coos way down the [...] Read Full Story
Kampung Betawi
Happy 482nd birthday, Jakarta!
Of course it is all made up. I think Jakarta is actually older that 482 but it is not nice to ask an old lady her age. When asked she is bound to cut a few years off what she knows to be her real age.
Or, on the other hand, Jakarta [...] Read Full Story
I have posted Tom Allard’s excellent reporting from the Sydney Morning Herald here in full. This is just a small part of the Indonesian puzzle. There is Timor, Ache, Trisakti, and Semanggi… Ambon and Kalimantan… There are just too many cockroaches of the Soeharto era to stamp out. Some are even prominent politicians.
Starting here would [...] Read Full Story
Because the world has entered the final age
the best are unwilling to remain in it for long.
Their duties completed, they quickly depart this earth
Aiming for the heavens.
They fear to be corrupted by the poisons of the Age of Kali.
-Purwa Senghara Pupuh XXXIII, verses 46-47
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Teenage US-Indonesian model Manohara Odelia Pino, seen here, has returned to her family in Indonesia. Photo: AFP
It appears that Indonesian – Malyasian relations are falling on hard times. No since the good old bad old days of CONFRONTASI! and CRUSH MALYASIA! have things been at such a low ebb.
First, there is the Manohara Odelia Pinot [...] Read Full Story
Map of the Invisable World is the new novel by the Malaysian writer Tash Aw. Tash Aw was born in Taipei to Malaysian-Chinese parents and grew up in Kuala Lumpar. His previous novel The Harmony Silk Factorywon the 2005 Whitbread First Novel Award and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel, and was long-listed for the Man Booker [...] Read Full Story
The story goes something like this:
“In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his “Merantau” a century’s old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community’s young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself [...] Read Full Story
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
In Economic Dynamism of Asia in the New Millenium: From the Asian Crisis to a New Stage of Growth(Advanced Research in Asian Economic Studies),Yoshinori Shimizu (Editor), 2007, appears an essay written by Ms. Indrawati, “Indonesian Economic Recovery Process and the Role of Government”. In this essay of the economic recovery of Indonesia at [...] Read Full Story
It’s May Day
Revolution in South Asia
President Sukarno Addressing May Day Rally 5/7/1965-Djakarta, Indonesia- President Sukarno of Indonesia addresses a mass May Day rally in the Sports Hall Building. Sukarno announced his decision not to attend a peace conference with Malaysian Prime Minister Rahman in Tokyo. The announcement was viewed as a victory for Indonesia’s powerful [...] Read Full Story
