Health Remedies
As the dry season turns wet and the rains come knocking on our doors (and, in my case at least,...
Lifestyle
Hashing In Jakarta
Hash House Harriers also known as “The Hash” can be found in many countries throughout the world and especially in...
Alliance Jiu-Jitsu: Now Available in Indonesia
Alliance Jiu-jitsu is one of the most prominent Brazilian Jiu-jitsu associations, and the current, defending Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World team champions,...
Yoga in Nature; Nature in Yoga
Let nature calm your mind through yoga Many yoga asana (pose) names and characteristics are derived from nature like the...
Sticks and Stones won?t Break by Bones and Artfully they Speak for me ? the Eco in Kamoro Art
Long and heavy it lies on the wet morning grass, the dew licking its undersides. Young sunlight grazes its skin....
Living a Greener Life in the Big Durian
Imagine if you could turn your home in Jakarta into a modern tropical paradise. Imagine it was like staying in...
The Jakarta Belly Syndrome
A few days ago, as I was in the clinic practicing like usual when a patient of mine – Priti...
A Million Dollar Treasure in West-Java
The kids in the kampong peeked from behind broken windows. It was a poor kampong and a lot of the...
Art and Revolution
S. Sudjojono, 1913-1986 One of the ultimate tools of revolution is art. So, too, revolution ideas often stimulate revolutionary visuals...
Riding Jalur NuRa
As the crow flies Puncak is a mere 80 kilometres to the south east of Jakarta. In the hills of...
Music, Is It Here To Stay?
THE FALL Is it the real death of the music industry? How many songs do you have on your...
Indonesia’ First Celebrity Artist
Raden Saleh Boestaman (c. 1807-1880) This well-known photo of Raden Saleh, Indonesia’s ‘first’ western-style painter was taken in 1870 when...
Pastis Please
Have you tried Pastis? No, not the French liqueur, the Mediterranean-come-Italian Kitchen and Bar in Aston at the Kuningan Suites....
Climbing the Less Well-Known Peaks of Indonesia
As editor of the not-for-profit hiking website Gunung Bagging, I have spent the last few years exploring countless mountain peaks...
Presidential Art
Complex, contradictory and politically brilliant, Engineer Sukarno, the first president of the Republic of Indonesia, was a renowned lover of...