Culinary Creativity at Colonial Cuisine & Molecular
Colonial Cuisine & Molecular in South Jakarta is the epitome of contrast: old classics jazzed up by new techniques; antiquated...
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The Clandestine Critic | Playing Koi in Kemang
Our expert epicure continues an undercover operation to bring you the truth about Jakarta’s dining scene. No spoon is left...
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...
Delivering Joy with HappyFresh Indonesia
HappyFresh Indonesia is a recently launched grocery delivery app for Jakarta. The startup has seven co-founders, bringing together a myriad...
Rock Steady
You were robbed of your childhood if you were never taken to a Hard Rock Cafe for potato skins, wings...
Helping the Kiddies in Need
Mary’s Cancer Kiddies (MCK), a charity providing financial support for the treatment of children with cancer in Jakarta, was propelled...
Swindling Starts at School
It’s every parent’s nightmare: a phone call informing them their child has been in a serious accident and requires emergency...
Getting to the Other Side
The safest time to cross the street in Jakarta can be when the city is at maximum danger level, as...
The Clandestine Critic | Highs and Loewy-s
In a new monthly column, our expert epicure launches an undercover operation to bring you the truth about Jakarta’s eateries....
Indonesia Dances: Meet Theo Geene
Theo is Director of Production, Creative and Artists of electronic dance music festival organizer, IDM-Events. Their first event in Indonesia,...
Jakarta’s Fashion Faux Pas
Victoria Bannerman people-watches in malls to bring you the fashion rights and wrongs of Indonesia’s capital city. Being a stylista,...
Expats Behind the Burners of Jakarta’s Top Eateries
There is a vibrant culinary scene in Jakarta and expats are no stranger to it. French, German, Italian, Australian expats...
Global oil prices are slipping. Where does Indonesia stand?
The fall in global oil prices seems like good news in Indonesia. But not all is well in ASEAN. Remko...
US-Based Sovereign’ Capital Wants to Beef Up Healthcare in Indonesia
As the Jakarta-based managing principal of Sovereign’s Capital, Luke Roush recounts his firm’s investment progress with Indonesian healthcare companies. ...
Joyful Holiday Offers to Celebrate Christmas and New Year’ Eve
JAKARTA MERCURE Jakarta Simatupang Add some sparkles into your holiday season with special offers from MERCURE Jakarta Simatupang Hotel. We...
Mark Magee, General Manager of IKEA Indonesia
In this issue’s Business Profile we meet Mark Magee, General Manager of IKEA Indonesia. IKEA opened their first Indonesian store...
See You in 2015!
November 2014 was the busiest month the Jakarta Comedy Club has ever had. We had four events in 15 days,...
Meet Josef Fuchs of ISCO Foundation
Meet Josef Fuchs, an Austrian expat passionate about bringing learning to marginalized children of Indonesia. Josef has been living in...
Herry the Rujak Man
Rujak (fruit salad with a spicy sauce) may have been born in East Indonesia, but it makes its home in...
Vegetarian, Organic Restaurants: Bali, Jakarta and Jogjakarta
Although Indonesia is a great place to find vegetarian food with plenty of soya bean options and vegetable side dishes...
Hunting Vollkorn in Jakarta
Would I summon the nerve to barge uninvited into the Soviet Embassy, to plead – not for asylum – but...