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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Beguiled by Becaks
Christopher J. Koch was writing of 1965, that simmering era of impending violence, when he penned those lines in his novel The Year of Living Dangerously. They belonged to another time even then, and yet, more than forty years later only the old Dutch spelling has changed, and the becaks are still creaking into ponderous action throughout the kampungs and alleyways of Java.
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Finding Michi
Just when you think you know Bali, another hidden gem is revealed... Michi Retreat is an experience unlike any other on the island, and it owes its charm to the life of a remarkable personality.
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Kopi Luwak: “good to the last drop(ping)…”
In this shot of caffeinated wisdom, Alun Evans explores what might just be the strangest phenomenon in global coffee consumption. "Not a week goes by when I do not get an email from someone, somewhere in the world, asking me a question relating to kopi luwak."
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Magical Moyo
When it comes to Amanwana, it really is almost about the journey as much as the destination. Situated on Moyo island in Sumbawa Besar, the jungle resort is just an hour’s flight from Bali in a C-208 Amphibian Cessna Caravan float plane.
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Michael Franti gets ready for NYE in Bali
Founder of the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy in the early 1990s, followed by Spearhead, Franti is a poet, musician, and social justice activist who has had a home Bali for some years. He spoke to us about his Bali and his thoughts as he looks forward to the NYE show.
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An Israeli in Indonesia
Etgar Keret is one of Israel’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, with particular appeal to the younger generations. His books are bestsellers in Israel and around the world, and have been translated into 22 languages. Over 40 short films have been based on his stories, and Jellyfish, a feature film he co-directed with his wife, won the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 2007. Catriona Mitchell met him at the 2010 Ubud Writers Festival.
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