Bali’s Tourism Industry: Price Wars or Quality Wars??
Key stakeholders in Bali’s tourism industry are drooling at the possibility of the island reopening again. They’re thinking this will...
Outreach
Tourism Minister Plans Gili Trawangan-Sanur COVID-Free Travel Pattern
To develop the tourism potential of Gili Trawangan, Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno is planning to develop a...
Mixed Marriage in Indonesia: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Mixed Marriage in Indonesia: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly On setting out to write about “mixed race marriage”,...
Mixed Marriages in Indonesia – A Fresh Look
Mixed Marriages in Indonesia – A Fresh Look It would almost be true to say that there are as many...
Compassion in 21st-Century Learning
Students of Jakarta Intercultural School engage in community outreach that makes a difference Seventeen-year-old Sangwook is on a mission to...
Mixed-Race Children: Finally, the Bali Kids Have Their Say Too
Probably now amounting in the thousands, this youngster community of having mixed parents living in Bali can finally have their...
Forever Foreign in ASEAN and what it means to be Pribumi
“You can’t simply decide to be Asian. You must have an Asian culture. This means, for a start, changing your...
45 Years in Indonesia – Eleonora Detmers
Eleonora Detmers Lives the Pelabuhan Ratu Cowabunga Eleonora Detmers, often called Nora, has never looked back since moving to Indonesia...
AstraZeneca Vaccination: Priority Order of Recipients in Jakarta
The DKI Jakarta government has stated that it had made provision for the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine as part...
KITAS and KITAP Holders Eligible for Government Vaccine
The government has confirmed that foreign workers who have a temporary stay permit (KITAS) or a permanent stay permit (KITAP)...
Pakistan and the Philippines Arrivals Get 14-Day Quarantine
Acting Director-General of Disease Prevention and Control at the Health Ministry, Dr Maxi Rein Rondonuwu, has requested that all Head...
Mob Mentality and Critical Thinking
Din Syamsuddin, a lecturer at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta and former Muhammadiyah chairman, was reported by the...
Grand Indonesia BerbaGI During the Month of Ramadan
As a form of concern for the environment around Grand Indonesia, every year Grand Indonesia routinely carries out CSR (Corporate...
Robbery, Attacks and Injured Foreigners – Where’s the Justice?
NOTE: This story is told solely from the victim’s perspective. Other parties were not able to comment. Violence and robberies...
6 Reasons Why and When a Girl Ignores You
Any guy knows a situation when he wanted to contact a girl, but she ignored him for a while, and...
Make Yourself at Home: Top Tips for Homesick Expats in Indonesia
Whether you’ve been living in Indonesia for five years or five months, it’s likely you’ve had a bout of the...
Housequake
When I first moved to Indonesia, more years ago now than I care to remember, finding a pad to live...
Mudik is Banned Unless You Meet These Conditions
The COVID-19 Handling Task Force has officially banned Eid Al-Fitr’ 2021 homecoming, known locally as mudik, as stated in circular...
Do Not Pass Go Versions of Monopoly
The well-known board game Monopoly was released by Parker Brothers in 1935. In the game, players roll two six-sided dice...
Quality Costs – and Endures
Among the terms aligned with good urban design, like heritage preservation, planning and taste, there’s one that sits awkwardly: money....
Reducing the Stress with Your Property Investments
“It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.” This was the conclusion Hans Selye, a Hungarian-Canadian scientist,...