Dutch Woman Selling Mie Ayam in JogjaIndonesia ExpatJanuary 24, 2021January 27, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatJanuary 24, 2021January 27, 202101034 A foreigner has been spotted selling mie ayam, or chicken noodles, in Yogyakarta. Bakso Mie Ayam Telolet is located on...
Strong Will Goes a Long Way for Sjefke JansenIndonesia ExpatOctober 7, 2020October 7, 2020 by Indonesia ExpatOctober 7, 2020October 7, 202001021 With his determination to bring more food into his childhood home in Germany, Sjefke dived into the culinary industry to...
Bali Thieves Target ForeignersIndonesia ExpatJanuary 30, 2020 by Indonesia ExpatJanuary 30, 202001673 Two foreigners, Corneliske Josephine De Ruiter from the Netherlands and Joshua Jacometti from Switzerland, along with one Indonesian citizen named...
Dutch Citizen Confesses to Murder in BanyuwangiIndonesia ExpatDecember 23, 2019 by Indonesia ExpatDecember 23, 201903525 A middle-aged woman has been killed in a room belonging to a Dutch citizen in Kalipuro District, Banyuwangi. The victim...
Honouring the Shared History between Indonesia and the DutchIndonesia ExpatOctober 23, 2019 by Indonesia ExpatOctober 23, 201901614 In Indonesia, a cemetery is synonymous with spookiness. I never thought that a cemetery could be a place filled with...
KLM Invites Everyone to be More SustainableIndonesia ExpatOctober 4, 2019 by Indonesia ExpatOctober 4, 201901143 A 2-day exhibition in Jakarta, titled KLM 100 Years – Celebrate the Future, on 5th and 7th October 2019 at...
The Birth of Batavia: The Local Resistance Was Brutally CrushedIndonesia ExpatAugust 18, 2019August 18, 2019 by Indonesia ExpatAugust 18, 2019August 18, 201901476 Four hundred years ago, Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen founded Batavia, creating a Dutch enclave on the island of Java. But...
The Dutch Pioneering Voyage to the East IndiesIndonesia ExpatNovember 8, 2017 by Indonesia ExpatNovember 8, 201702227 By Bartele Gallery Jakarta The last decade of the sixteenth century heralded the emergence of the Dutch as the colonial...
The Dutch Golden Age of Charcuterie in JakartaMay TienAugust 24, 2016 by May TienAugust 24, 20160916 Expats around town understand how difficult it is to find decent Western cuisine that doesn’t either slant heavily towards local...
AVIP Interiors, an Industry Leader in the Design and Build of Commercial SpacesAngela JelitaApril 2, 2015August 8, 2017 by Angela JelitaApril 2, 2015August 8, 201711116 Frans Spanjaart is Founder and CEO of AVIP Interiors, a commercial interior design company in operation since 1986, which he...
A Brief History of TobaccoHans RooseboomFebruary 25, 2014August 11, 2017 by Hans RooseboomFebruary 25, 2014August 11, 201701503 Tobacco was first cultivated in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes, from where it spread north and south till it covered...
Take a Seat with DUDUKGabriella PanjaitanFebruary 11, 2014August 11, 2017 by Gabriella PanjaitanFebruary 11, 2014August 11, 20170695 As they rode on a train to Cirebon from Jakarta, two Dutch ladies by the names of Naomi Pescheux and...