Valentine’s Day: Activities for a Single Expat
Being single as an expat in a foreign land can be a time of fun and joy. You have the...
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Balinese Environmental Activist Wins CNN Heroes Award
An environmental activist from Bali, I Made Janur Yasa, has won the CNN Heroes 2021 award after his name was...
Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things
There was something in the air. A sense of community. An awareness that change, true change, is possible if it...
The Bali Island School Story: Socializing while Socially Distancing
To socialize is to be human. Not only verbally, but body language and touch also make up a huge part...
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...
Bali’s Trash Solution in Action
When it comes to getting a handle on recycling and plastic waste in Bali, then look no further than the...
Community at the Heart of the School for Now
Green School Bali is well-known for educating for sustainability and its bamboo architecture, but at its heart beats a vibrant...
Leave Your Cars at Home, Cycle and Longboard Instead
The Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan, is an advocate for cyclists to use the capital’s main roads. Anies encourages...
Australian Expats in Indonesia Give Back to Community During Pandemic
Amanda Rialdi, an Australian expat living in Indonesia, wasn’t able to return home when the borders of Australia and Indonesia...
Coronavirus and the Community: Time to Help
Even without a full lockdown in force, Yogyakarta is a very different place than it was just a few short...
Fun! Golf Societies in Jakarta
With pollution levels not getting any better in Jakarta, weekends offer a great opportunity for us all to escape the...
Lovepink: Fighting Breast Cancer Together
Lovepink is a breast cancer community supporting ‘warriors’ and ‘survivors’ in their battle. Through campaigns such as breast self-examinations (SADARI),...
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...
Expats and Locals in Solidarity for a Safer Bali
In response to the recent increase in street crimes, road accidents, home burglaries, and murder in Bali, expats have created...
A Mended Broken Promise
I arrived in Indonesia more than ten years ago and then duly scarpered back to England. After a year of...
Adapt – The Content Expat
The key quality necessary to become a content expat is having the ability and openness to adapt. As people, we...
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...