Indonesia Governors Bringing 1 Litre Water and One Jug of Land To Nusantara.Indonesia ExpatMarch 12, 2022 by Indonesia ExpatMarch 12, 20220384 Governors from all 34 provinces in Indonesia will gather at the national capital city at Sepaku, East Kalimantan and take...
Splashing Out on CultureIndonesia ExpatSeptember 15, 2021November 10, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatSeptember 15, 2021November 10, 20210302 Can history be used to coin cash in a country where citizens would rather tramp malls than museums and reckon...
How did Indonesia’s Economy Come Around?Indonesia ExpatOctober 7, 2020November 10, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatOctober 7, 2020November 10, 202101596 Studying the Indonesian economy from a historical perspective is essential. A deep understanding of history is needed to support sustainable...
Kota Tua – A Stroll through Jakarta’s Historical PropertyIndonesia ExpatSeptember 17, 2019November 10, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatSeptember 17, 2019November 10, 202101737 Jakarta is not just high-rise buildings and malls. The capital city is home to a multitude of grand buildings with...
Surabaya: A Journey Through TimeIndonesia ExpatMarch 15, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMarch 15, 201801669 Have you ever wondered why Surabaya is nicknamed the City of Heroes? Well, here are two historical places in the...
Success in the Sky: The KLM Story (Part One)Indonesia ExpatMarch 14, 2018 by Indonesia ExpatMarch 14, 201802449 The letters most commonly associated with the history of Dutch aviation are “K.L.M.,” which stand for Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (“Royal...
The Role of Contemporary Art Museums in Indonesian SocietyCaranissa DjatmikoNovember 20, 2017 by Caranissa DjatmikoNovember 20, 201702328 With the recent opening of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Jakarta, its Director Aaron Seeto reflects on...
The Dutch Pioneering Voyage to the East IndiesIndonesia ExpatNovember 8, 2017 by Indonesia ExpatNovember 8, 201703006 By Bartele Gallery Jakarta The last decade of the sixteenth century heralded the emergence of the Dutch as the colonial...
What the Temples of Indonesia Tell UsIndonesia ExpatOctober 9, 2017November 10, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatOctober 9, 2017November 10, 202101721 We live in a vast archipelago nation alongside 129 active volcanoes. Traditional wooden houses in this region have withstood the...
Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu PertiwiIndonesia ExpatSeptember 12, 2017November 10, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatSeptember 12, 2017November 10, 202101719 It was towards the end of my tour at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta when, in 1969, West Papua became...
Indonesia Through the Eyes of Rio HelmiGrace SusetyoMay 24, 2017May 26, 2017 by Grace SusetyoMay 24, 2017May 26, 201701326 Best known for his large format photo books Memories of the Sacred (2011) and River of Gems (1991, with Lorne...
Indonesia’s old manuscripts are waiting to be decipheredIndonesia ExpatMay 10, 2017November 11, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatMay 10, 2017November 11, 202102832 Mehamat Boru Karo Sekalu, a lady working in North Sumatra Museum reads an ancient book written in Batak letters, eloquently....
Borobudur Reliefs Tell Wise TalesIndonesia ExpatApril 26, 2017November 11, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatApril 26, 2017November 11, 202103982 Borobudur Temple was built in the eighth century and has more than 2,670 reliefs. Each set of reliefs tells a...
Trouble in Paradise: Komodo Island, Tourism and ConservationGrace SusetyoMarch 29, 2017April 4, 2017 by Grace SusetyoMarch 29, 2017April 4, 201703519 With Komodo Island gaining popularity in recent years as a favourite expat destination, it’s easy to only come for the...
Alfred Raquez’s Trip to BataviaIndonesia ExpatMarch 9, 2017November 11, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatMarch 9, 2017November 11, 202102189 “Alfred Raquez” is the pseudonym of Joseph Gervais, a bankrupt French lawyer who fled to the Far East in the...
Tambora: Mysteries of a Lost CivilizationGrace SusetyoFebruary 28, 2017 by Grace SusetyoFebruary 28, 201704441 In addition to changing the global climate through “The Year Without Summer” and losing nearly half of its original altitude,...
Rebuilding Bima: An Expat’s Perspective on Resilience in the Face of DisasterGrace SusetyoFebruary 13, 2017 by Grace SusetyoFebruary 13, 201702358 After encountering generous and passionate locals in the historical royal city of Bima in October of 2016, Grace Susetyo was...
Opinion: Saving Indonesia from the Mistakes of the WestStephanie WoodsJanuary 30, 2017 by Stephanie WoodsJanuary 30, 201702091 Indonesia is a place that travellers speak of as a paradise. Advertisements for leisure travel depict pristine white sand beaches,...
Recruit To RevolutionTerry CollinsAugust 24, 2016 by Terry CollinsAugust 24, 201601065 John Coast was 31 when he flew to Bukittinggi in 1948. His life’s journey until that point had been one...
British Bengkulu: A Forgotten Imperial OutpostMikee SadlerJuly 26, 2016July 27, 2016 by Mikee SadlerJuly 26, 2016July 27, 201602316 Bengkulu, October 1685: The fort stood atop a small hillock on the banks of a coffee-coloured creek. To the west...
Cangkuang, West Java’s Small and Mystical Hindu TempleIndonesia ExpatJuly 26, 2016November 11, 2021 by Indonesia ExpatJuly 26, 2016November 11, 202101926 Discovering one of the few Hindu-Buddhist relics ever to be discovered in West Java. One Tuesday morning, a gang of...