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The Act of Killing 11 Dec 2012 | 03:03 pm
“Not everything true should be made public…I believe even God has secrets.” On Monday December 10, 2012, marking Human Rights Day, Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act of Killing (see reviews here...
The Painter of Lost Souls 14 Sep 2012 | 03:32 pm
Warsito the artist walked alongside the thin crust of humanity that clings to the uneven paving along Malioboro Street. Here, past midnight the wretched of Java lie, wrapped in filthy burlap sacks t...
Jolotundo – The Bathing Place 16 Jan 2012 | 01:36 am
There is a scent of incense on the damp evening air. The temple is set into the green hillside: a facade of dark basalt fronted by a shallow pool full of slow-moving fish. Water pours in continuous ri...
Clowning Around 15 Jan 2012 | 11:40 pm
There is something about spending your formative years as a young expatriate in Indonesia that changes you forever. Although many students at the international schools leave after high school for univ...
The Kopernik Revolution 15 Jan 2012 | 11:30 pm
Images courtesy of Ewa Wojkowska. Where are you from and where are you now? How did the Indonesian connection develop? Toshi Nakamura is from Osaka, Japan, and I am originally from Poland but grew u...
Ring of Fire: the Extraordinary Odyssey of the Blair Brothers 15 Jan 2012 | 10:31 pm
“Are you one of those people who believe that there’s nothing left to discover in this world of ours? Then here’s the story of Lawrence Blair and his brother Lorne, who came East in search of adventur...
Monkey Business 15 Jan 2012 | 10:12 pm
It’s raw morning in a stinking Jakarta slum. A muddy, sloping walkway separates lines of shanty houses made of brick or wooden planks and topped with corrugated iron. Thin, almost clear sunli...
A Space for Art & Culture: gedungDUA8 14 Jan 2012 | 07:28 pm
GedungDUA8 is a building tucked into the heart of Kemang that functions as a space for exhibiting its collection of artifacts from eastern Indonesia, as a venue for events – with its various rooms and...
Villa Sungai, Bali 14 Jan 2012 | 06:44 pm
The Villa Sungai experience: a luxurious, secluded, five-star resort overlooking the Penet river and surrounded by lush tropical rainforest. By the pool at Villa Sungai. On an adventurous whim, we d...
Moving to Medan 14 Jan 2012 | 06:33 pm
Grace Siregar settles into Sumatra’s first city. At the end of March 2006 my husband Alexander’s contract with an NGO based in Tobelo, North Maluku, came to an end and he received an offer of a new p...
