Hadi – The Padang Restaurant ManagerHush PetersenAugust 26, 2013August 16, 2017 by Hush PetersenAugust 26, 2013August 16, 201701069 Every morning at 4am, Hadi and the team from Rumah Makan Cahaya Baru 99, a hidden Padang gem in the...
Faces Of Jakarta: Yanti, The Warteg LadyHush PetersenJuly 29, 2013August 16, 2017 by Hush PetersenJuly 29, 2013August 16, 20170934 It’s 5:30 on a Thursday evening in the middle of Ramadhan. Yanti, a newly anointed grandmother, is cursorily taking gorengan...
Faces Of Jakarta: Husin, The Ice ManHush PetersenJuly 15, 2013August 16, 2017 by Hush PetersenJuly 15, 2013August 16, 20170536 With Ramadhan in full swing you’d think that Husin’s business, selling ice to the 30 or more vendors and food...
Faces Of Jakarta: Iman, The Truck DriverHush PetersenJuly 2, 2013August 16, 2017 by Hush PetersenJuly 2, 2013August 16, 201701291 No one is happier to see school let out for summer than Iman. He may be 42, and well out...
Faces Of Jakarta : Imron, The CarpenterHush PetersenJune 19, 2013August 16, 2017 by Hush PetersenJune 19, 2013August 16, 201701721 No one cares more for details than Imron. As a carpenter at Konsep Gallery along Jalan Kemang Timur Raya in...
Petty : The Restaurant CriticHush PetersenJune 3, 2013August 16, 2017 by Hush PetersenJune 3, 2013August 16, 201701310 For the last nine years Petty Elliot has been living a secret life. She’s ducked in and out of Jakarta’s...
Pak Trisno : The Ojek Driver and Devoted FatherHush PetersenMay 20, 2013August 23, 2017 by Hush PetersenMay 20, 2013August 23, 201701252 No one loves Jakarta’s traffic as much as Trisno. It’s his bread and butter. His clients leave the office at...
Herwan: The PainterHush PetersenMay 6, 2013September 6, 2017 by Hush PetersenMay 6, 2013September 6, 20171877 Herwan’s shirt keeps the paint from dripping on his face. He figured out how to wrap the turban on his...
Edi: The Street SweeperHush PetersenApril 4, 2013September 4, 2017 by Hush PetersenApril 4, 2013September 4, 201701084 On a sunny Wednesday morning in Kebayoran, Edi Sukandi is going through the motions. His dark wiry arms work without...
Taufan: The Strongest Kid You?ll Ever MeetHush PetersenMarch 26, 2013May 3, 2020 by Hush PetersenMarch 26, 2013May 3, 202001450 Taufan might be the strongest kid you’ll ever meet. He’s seven-years-old now, but he’s been fighting leukemia since he was...
Kang Edi: The CaricaturistHush PetersenMarch 12, 2013September 6, 2017 by Hush PetersenMarch 12, 2013September 6, 20170997 In the shadow of Pasar Baru in Central Jakarta sits the coup de grace of every departing expat—Jalan Gedung Kesenian—and...
Movember ? In your Face, Cancer!Hush PetersenNovember 19, 2012September 6, 2017 by Hush PetersenNovember 19, 2012September 6, 201711016 There are two kinds of men in the world: those who can pull off a moustache and those who can’t....
A Dive Paradise in SulawesiHush PetersenSeptember 10, 2012September 6, 2017 by Hush PetersenSeptember 10, 2012September 6, 201701422 Prince John Dive Resort isn’t in Palu. It’s about an hour up the road, in a tiny place called Donggala....
Nusa Penida, More than Mola Mola and MantasHush PetersenJune 6, 2012September 6, 2017 by Hush PetersenJune 6, 2012September 6, 20170827 Some of the world’s best storytellers are divers. Fishermen, hunters—they simply can’t compare. There’s nothing quite like sitting under a...
Delicacies for the Daring DinerHush PetersenMarch 15, 2012September 4, 2017 by Hush PetersenMarch 15, 2012September 4, 20171708 It’s hard to put your finger on what makes Ben Hil (short for Bendungan Hilir), right at the heart of...
Resolutions ? At Least Make it InterestingHush PetersenJanuary 12, 2012August 8, 2017 by Hush PetersenJanuary 12, 2012August 8, 20170458 When it comes to New Year’s Eve parties, there are only two corners of the room: The corner where some...
Have the Guts to Eat from the StreetHush PetersenDecember 25, 2011September 4, 2017 by Hush PetersenDecember 25, 2011September 4, 20172 854 There are two kinds of people in Jakarta: the ones that eat street food and the ones that don’t. ...
The Bargain Tree HunterHush PetersenDecember 6, 2011September 6, 2017 by Hush PetersenDecember 6, 2011September 6, 201701148 If you plan on walking into a department store this week and dropping Rp 3.2 million on a six-foot tall...
The Rinjani [Rubbish] TrailHush PetersenNovember 24, 2011September 24, 2017 by Hush PetersenNovember 24, 2011September 24, 20170771 The naturalist John Muir is credited with a quote most mountain climbers have memorised and tend to recite after a...
Young Diver’s Dreams Find a Home in West JavaHush PetersenNovember 8, 2011September 6, 2017 by Hush PetersenNovember 8, 2011September 6, 201701300 Kyle Blakeway’s love of the ocean runs deep: it started when he earned his junior open water dive certification —he...