Dua Tangan Cukup: Ffrash Produces Home Furniture from Trash
Ffrash is a recently introduced interior design brand, with a social and sustainable character. Ffrash produces high-quality sustainable design furniture...
Observations
The Thin Light Blue Line
There are a number of things that I believe everyone should do before they die (other than “shout for help”...
Vapers Speak Out!
John Duffy, 46 years old, UK “I started vaping a few months after suffering a heart attack at 45. This was...
The Topic of Cancer
The ramblings of an anti-smoking expat based in Batam I detest smoking. Starting with the basic ritual of taking dried...
Participatory Flood Risk Management: What the common man in the street can do
It wasn't unexpected although it has happened many times before. But still, when confronted with the swirling mass of brown...
Dua Tangan Cukup: Pak Alfredo Cleans Liang Beach
Dua Tangan Cukup (Two Hands are Enough) is a movement started by Clean Up Jakarta Day which encourages actions to...
MRT: The Key to Reducing Jakarta’s Chronic Congestion
Starting October 10, 2013, the first phase of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), a monorail-based transportation system, began works in Dukuh...
A Home Away from Home at Christmas
Ever since I could remember, I loathed the atrocious winters of New York City, regardless of the fact that the...
Muster of Endangered Birds Set Free in East Java National Park
FNPF?s wildlife rescue centre at Tabanan in central Bali - one of only seven such centres in Indonesia - provides...
Twitchers in Town – Birdwatching in Jakarta
It?s hard to imagine Jakarta having any wildlife at all, let alone any birds. The city authorities, after all, do...
What You See is What You Get?
Myths, truths and reality Men outlive women because they do not bear children, which is an enormous strain on...
On Heroes, Animations, and Man’ Quest for Honour
On Heroes Day (November 10) I decided to visit the Hellofest Anima Expo and find out what heroes young Indonesians...
Resource Rich – Language Poor
In 2007, Indonesia was the first country to enact legislation, Law No. 40 of 2007 concerning Limited Liability Companies, making...
Fostering a Cleaner Community for Business
Waste management seems to be a perpetual issue in Jakarta and Bali. When beaches, streets, and other places of interest...
Dead in the Water
It was a long wait. Six years between Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports on the state of our...
Save Wildlife, Save Ourselves
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the...
Jakarta’s Climate Change: Wet to Dry and Dry to Wet
The experts are now 95 percent certain, as opposed to 90 percent before, that the observed warming of the planet...
Writing Words that Strain and Fail to Rhyme
Why is it that writers come to Bali to pen a novel, a poem or a memoir? I simply don?t...
A Brave New Lesson Plan
One of the few things I remember from when I was seven or eight years old was being introduced to...
The Long Way Home
English teacher Daniel Pope recalls his 1997 nightmare journey from Bintan to Jakarta - It began with a motorcycle accident....
Back to the Bamboo Roots: The Secrets of Senyawa
Wukir Suryadi is just back from a tour in Europe with his two-man band, Senyawa, and is now preparing for...