Dutch PM Apologises to Indonesia Over Colonial Period Violence
The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, has apologised for the extreme and systematic violence perpetrated during Indonesia’s war of independence....
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How Some Europeans Thrived During the Japanese Occupation
Should President Joko Widodo model any of his “Ten New Balis” tourist attractions on the mountain resort of Sarangan in...
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...
Dutch Woman Selling Mie Ayam in Jogja
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 Jansen
With his determination to bring more food into his childhood home in Germany, Sjefke dived into the culinary industry to...
Bali Thieves Target Foreigners
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 Banyuwangi
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 Dutch
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 Sustainable
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 Crushed
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 Indies
The last decade of the sixteenth century heralded the emergence of the Dutch as the colonial power that was to...
The Dutch Golden Age of Charcuterie in Jakarta
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 Spaces
Frans Spanjaart is Founder and CEO of AVIP Interiors, a commercial interior design company in operation since 1986, which he...
A Brief History of Tobacco
Tobacco was first cultivated in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes, from where it spread north and south till it covered...
Take a Seat with DUDUK
As they rode on a train to Cirebon from Jakarta, two Dutch ladies by the names of Naomi Pescheux and...