Persipura Jayapura’s Long Road to Success
The Black Pearls overcome long flights and tiring transit times to become the best football club in the land. For...
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Hiking Gunung Tambora: Celebrating 200 Years Since the Eruption that Shook the World
Two hundred years ago a volcano violently erupted on the island of Sumbawa, sending molten rock 40km into the sky...
Sail Indonesia Promotes Indonesia’s Nascent Maritime Leisure Industry
Hardy crews get up close and personal to spectacular and remote destinations in the eastern islands. With 17,000 islands of...
Pitchers Prepare to Mount the Mound in Jakarta
Baseball arrives in Indonesia as the Hit Factory hopes to take the game to another level. Think of baseball and...
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...
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...
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...
Do You Pétanque
I must be honest and say that when I was first told about pétanque in Jakarta my initial reaction was...
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...
United by Running
We are approaching the dry season and that is good news for one hardy bunch of Jakarta residents: the running...
Rugby Expats Take the Game to Local Communities
How a conversation in a pub, with a backdrop of Christmas carols, led to orphaned girls taking up the rough-old-game...
Rugby Romance
It was Valentine’s Day so I decided to show my long-suffering wife some genuine TLC. We loaded up the car...
Aussie Rules in Indonesia
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, given the close proximity of Australia to Indonesia, that Australian Rules Football, better known...
Young Guns Cut their Teeth in the Jakarta Schools Football League
It was hot, very hot. Hardly the best conditions for playing football anywhere, let alone a school in South Jakarta...
Every Day is Saturday with the TGIS Hash House Harriers
Guidebooks love to tell you where to go and how to get there. Travel snobs love to tell you how...
German Plus: 50 Years of Football History
In the rich annals of German football, the name Burkhardt Pape may not spring to mind in the way the...
MesaStila Endurance + 2014 Rail-to-Trails
Impressive is what immediately springs to mind as the first finishers cross the line after a gruelling 60 kilometre endurance...
One Wave is All it Takes!
Onewave is a non-profit surf community, founded by two young Australians in February 2013, to give people hope in order...
OneFC’ First Female Indonesian MMA Fighter
Desi Rahayu, a 164cm tall Indonesian athlete competed at the prestigious OneFC Era of Champions tournament on 14 June 2014...
When There’ Torque of Bikes
Late last year I was invited to attend a ‘motor show’ in Sanur, which I was told would be spectacular,...
Meet Sheila Burch
Meet Sheila Burch, an American yoga teacher and founder of the Ubud Yoga House, Bali. Sheila Burch was born...