Recruit To Revolution
John Coast was 31 when he flew to Bukittinggi in 1948. His life’s journey until that point had been one...
The Influence of Javanese Music on Early Jazz
“Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.” – Herbie...
Education is Life
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey (1859 – 1952) Psychologists will tell you...
The Kids Went Wild in Batavia
“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.” – Louis Armstrong Joey Alexander’s nomination for two Grammy...
Jalan Jalan – A Novel of Indonesia
Mike Stoner Tuttle Publishing 2016 ISBN 978-0-8048-4629-5 The dozen or so books about Indonesia that I’ve reviewed, most for these...
A Brief History of Indonesia
A Brief History of Indonesia by Tim Hannigan pub. Tuttle 2015 pp.288 ISBN 978-0-8048-4476-5 (pbk) ISBN 978-0-4629-1716-7(ebook) The sub-title is far...
Jakarta Jive, Bali Blues
Living through interesting times and recording them as an observer, albeit with a strong attachment, offers a value not only...
IndoJazzia: Indonesian Jazz is Going Places
With the news that 11-year-old Indonesian pianist Joey Alexander’s first album, My Favourite Things, topped the jazz charts in the...
Sins of the Father
“The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father.” – Bible: Ezekiel 18:20 When I was 17 in mid-sixties...
Tesla Manaf Effendi
I haven’t asked Tesla why his parents gave him that name, but it fits the latest guitarist to have an...
Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation
And explore Indonesia with a very keen eye and widening mind is what Elizabeth Pisani (EP) did for just over...
John H. McGlynn – The Lontar Foundation
For much of the world, Indonesia is an exotic country next to Bali, and Java is where coffee comes from....
Welcome to Smisland
Welcome to Smisland Mathieu Sechet (aka Nyoman Seseh) (with Keira O’Connor) pub. Bali Buku 2013 After 10 years working in...
Resource Rich – Language Poor
In 2007, Indonesia was the first country to enact legislation, Law No. 40 of 2007 concerning Limited Liability Companies, making...
Save Wildlife, Save Ourselves
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the...
Crazy Little Heaven: An Indonesian Journey
With his fellow Tasmanian wife and their two young children, Mark Heyward arrived in East Kalimantan in 1992 to teach...
And All That Jazz
It was a few years before I discovered that in 1967 Bubi Chen, the piano maestro from Surabaya, guitarist Jack...
Family Fun
Are you bored with watching your children's boredom as they play boring video games? Do you send your children emails...
Indonesia Face To Face
Ivan Southall (1921-2008) was an Australian writer best known for young-adult fiction, but he also wrote seven books for adults,...
My Account Of The Hajj
I first met Nick Hughes at the turn of this year at a book launch and got chatting to him...
Street Art as Culture
“There’s too much culture. How can you sift through it all?” – Dan Quinn of this parish That statement begs...