Good News from Wild Sumatra
Sad, but true. The only time you hear of Sumatra in the news is when there is a natural disaster,...
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Indonesia’s Oldest Football Club: Persatuan Sepak Bola Makassar
This year Birmingham City celebrates their 140th anniversary as a professional football club. It hasn’t been much of a history...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sun Bear Education and Conservation Centre, Samarinda
While everyone is familiar with the orangutan and the problems that the cuddly, cute orange ape faces, spare a thought...
Balikpapan at a Glance
When I was growing up in suburban Surrey all those years ago, I knew little of the East beyond the...
Stick it to ’em: Field Hockey in Jakarta
Every time I told people I was off to an international hockey event on the weekend I was greeted with...
In Pursuit of Happiness: Expat Clubs in Bali
For whatever reason, people have been forming clubs since time immemorial and it is no different here in Indonesia. Early...
The Free Spirit Runners of Jakarta
You know that feeling you have when you decide what you really need to do is shed those excess kilograms...
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...