Pencak Silat: More Than Just a Fight
Explore your inner self through the grace and beauty of a martial art so tightly woven into the fabric of...
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The Sun is Shining: Summer 2015 Trends
With the urgency and joie de vivre of a couple in their first throws of passion, fashion’s love affair with...
Culinary Creativity at Colonial Cuisine & Molecular
Colonial Cuisine & Molecular in South Jakarta is the epitome of contrast: old classics jazzed up by new techniques; antiquated...
Astagatech: Web Design with the X-Factor
Astagatech is a full service web design and development company priding itself on developing elegant, user-friendly and mobile-responsive websites, on...
Theatre with a Difference: The Jakarta Players
Breaking the monotonous routine of movie-bingeing and mall-hopping, Jakartans have the opportunity to watch a highly captivating play for a...
Howzat! Jakarta Cricket Season Reaches Climax
Cricket’s history may be lost in the clouds of time, but the future is bright. When it comes to the...
Tradition, Tears and Tantrums
For forty-five years, the British Women’s Association (BWA) of Jakarta has been offering community support and friendship for UK citizens...
The Clandestine Critic | Playing Koi in Kemang
Our expert epicure continues an undercover operation to bring you the truth about Jakarta’s dining scene. No spoon is left...
Deddy the Daddy of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
We live in healthy times. For me, growing up in suburban Surrey in the 1980s, exercise was limited to a...
High-energy Fashion is Fighting Fit
Gone are the days when sportswear was for the sole purpose of getting downright sweaty at the gym. It has...
Super Sandwiches at Brown Bag
Sandwiches can be extremely subjective. One man’s tuna trash is another’s turkey treasure. To avoid coming to blows over butties,...
Do You Pétanque
I must be honest and say that when I was first told about pétanque in Jakarta my initial reaction was...
Funking Up My Platforms: The Essential ’70s Style Guide
Listen up, people – get your dancing shoes on and stomp your way into the decade that style almost forgot....
The Clandestine Critic | One Thousand Regional Flavours
Our expert epicure continues an undercover operation to bring you the truth about Jakarta’s dining scene. No spoon is left...
Swinging in the Shadow of Three Mountains in East Java
Finna Golf & Country Club Resort boasts an 18-hole championship course located 500m above sea level in the foothills of...
Chic Casas and Designer Domiciles
Our resident style guru Victoria Bannerman dishes out top tips for crafting fashionable interiors for your dream home, from creative...
Rock Steady
You were robbed of your childhood if you were never taken to a Hard Rock Cafe for potato skins, wings...
United by Running
We are approaching the dry season and that is good news for one hardy bunch of Jakarta residents: the running...
On the Rise: Meet Ramon Medina
Ramon is owner and boulanger of Levant Bakery in Kemang, South Jakarta. Together with his business partner, Ramon opened up...
Once Upon a Fashion Trend: the Spring-Summer 2015 Rundown
Victoria Bannerman urges you to get on the trend trail this summer with her foolproof guide to the major trends...
All That Jazz
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” ? Louis Armstrong En route to the eleventh annual Java Jazz...