Jolotundo – The Bathing Place
In the bathing tanks – women to the left, men to the right – people are standing chest-deep in the cool, clear water. Clearly something unusual is going on here; clearly Jolotundo is more than just another thousand-year-old relic of Java’s classical Hindu past.
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Clowning Around
There is something about spending your formative years as a young expatriate in Indonesia that changes you forever. Some feel a deep commitment to come back to Indonesia and give back in creative ways once they’ve ‘grown up’. But who says that ‘growing up’ has to be so serious? And sometimes the best way to give back is with a big red nose and floppy shoes.
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The Kopernik Revolution
Kopernik is a technology marketplace that connects life-changing innovations (such as water purification and solar-powered devices) to the people who need them in the developing world. Co-founder Ewa Wojkowska explains how and why it came about.
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Ring of Fire: the Extraordinary Odyssey of the Blair Brothers
“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 adventure and found themselves wandering for 10 years in the most volcanic region on earth, into the Ring of Fire…”
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Monkey Business
Topeng Monyet – masked monkeys – are a traditional Jakarta past-time that borrow their visuals and sense of drama from the masked human dancers of Cirebon in West Java. Dave Smithson discovers that the teenaged handlers from one of Jakarta’s darkest slums provide a new twist to an old tale.
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This Side of Paradise: Nikoi Island
Closer to Singapore than to Jakarta, Nikoi island off the east coast of Bintan, is Riau's best-kept secret. The private island is owned by a small group of expatriate owners who'd spent decades working in the region. The vacation spots in the vicinity fell short of their expectations.
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The Flying Photographer: Jez O’Hare
Jez O'Hare, adventurous master of aerial photography, has a unique perspective on Indonesia. Avi Hazuria met him at his home in Bandung.
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A Shared Inheritance: Gedung Arsip Nasional
“This place has really good feng shui,” says Tamalia Alisjahbana as she guides me through the Gedung Arsip Nasional in central Jakarta, former home of VOC Governor General Reinier de Klerk and perhaps the city’s best maintained heritage building.
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The Act of Killing
“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...
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The Painter of Lost Souls
Formerly a journalist for the BBC and chief editor of the Far East Economic Review, Michael Vatikiotis has worked as a writer/journalist in South East Asia for 25 years. This...
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A Space for Art & Culture: gedungDUA8
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 an amphitheatre - and as a place in which to be inspired as you work or contemplate.
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Villa Sungai, Bali
The Villa Sungai experience: a luxurious, secluded, five-star resort overlooking the Penet river and surrounded by lush tropical rainforest.
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The Great Banten Beach Hunt
Somewhere out there, it had to exist. Somewhere, while Jakarta steamed, warm blue water lapped cream-coloured sand.
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