Jazz Gunung Bromo: The Yin And Yang of Music And Nature
Jazz Gunung Bromo, one of the country’s largest musical festival which has become a stalwart of the cultural calendar, will...
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Expats Looking Forward to Lombok’ First Jazz Festival
The first international Lombok Jazz Festival is predicted to attract a slew of foreigners. The event is hoped to become...
8 Nightclubs in Jakarta and Bali That Foreigners Will Love
Some locals advise not to spend too many ?days? in the nightclubs. Expats won?t know what this means until they...
Here’ Why Expats in Indonesia Will Find McConaughey’ Movie ?Gold? Interesting
The 2016 movie Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez, is a fictionalized account of the infamous Bre-X mining scandal in...
Why Indonesia Should Support its Arts and Culture Sector
As we see a growing interest in arts and culture in Indonesia, creative institutions are now working harder to come...
An Expat’s Look into Bali’s Vibrant Weekend Market Scene
Bali’s weekend market scene has really taken off over the past few years with boutique bazaars popping up all over...
Puteri Indonesia to Represent ‘Unity in Diversity’ with Garuda Costume at Miss Universe 2016
Puteri Indonesia 2016 Kezia Warouw will be gracing the stage in a stunning garuda national costume at this year’s celebration...
Miss Indonesia Places Third at Miss World 2016
Miss Indonesia Natasha Mannuela Halim bagged the third place in the prestigious Miss World competition held in in Oxon Hill,...
Jamie James and The Glamour of Strangeness
Jamie James’ book “The Glamour of Strangeness” is a global survey of exotes, artists and writers who “roam the world...
Recruit To Revolution
John Coast was 31 when he flew to Bukittinggi in 1948. His life’s journey until that point had been one...
Artpreciation: Preserving Culture through Tourism
The Internationally recognized Agung Rai Museum of Art is one of the venues for a new type of tour called...
Indonesia’s First Modern and Contemporary Art Museum Reveals Design for 2017
Set to open in 2017, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, or Museum MACAN, finally unveils its...
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...
Art Appreciation: Meet Bruce Carpenter
Author and co-author of more than 20 books and numerous articles on Indonesian art, culture and history, Bruce W. Carpenter...
The Mapping of Java
The islands of Java and Bali located 8 degrees south of the Equator in the Indian Ocean are two of...
Kamasan: An Ancient Living Tradition
Imagine you are a master Balinese painter, and your King has recently commissioned you to do a piece of work....
Bali to London Blues: Erik Sondhy
London Blues, released on the IndoJazzia Musik label in May, is an extraordinary collection of solo pieces by Bali’s own...
Jakarta Players to Stage Sarah Ruhl’s ‘Eurydice’
The Jakarta Players will perform “Eurydice”, a contemporary reimagination of the Greek tragedy of Eurydice and Orpheus by playwright Sarah...
Art Spaces in Bali
When thinking of Bali’s premier art and cultural destinations, immediately the tourist Mecca of Ubud springs to mind. For those...
Sax in the City: PT Java Festival Production
The Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival debuted in 2005, staging 146 shows which were visited by 47,500 festival-goers. Arguably the...
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...