Edo Frese
Meet Edo Frese. A Dutchman in Jakarta with a finger in many pies. When did you come to Indonesia and...
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Floods of Excuses
Floods by Pablo Neruda The poor live on low ground waiting for the river to rise one night and sweep...
Chris Cromarty
Hi Chris Cromarty. The Canadian Aerial Surveyor whose release is getting mean on the ice rink. Chris from Canada, I...
Robert McKinnon
Hello Robert McKinnon. The Scotsman who accidentally found himself a home in Indonesia. Robert McKinnon So, Robert McKinnon, how did...
Have the Guts to Eat from the Street
There are two kinds of people in Jakarta: the ones that eat street food and the ones that don’t. ...
The Bargain Tree Hunter
If you plan on walking into a department store this week and dropping Rp 3.2 million on a six-foot tall...
Deck the Malls
Criticising Jakarta’s shopping malls for their ostentatious Christmas displays is too easy. We can feel sickened by the crass commercialisation...
Jakarta Air Pollution: Not all Doom, Gloom & Catastrophe!
In 1994 there were an estimated 1.38 million vehicles (cars, motorcycles, lorries and buses) in Jakarta. 27 years later in...
Health Remedies
As the dry season turns wet and the rains come knocking on our doors (and, in my case at least,...
Alliance Jiu-Jitsu: Now Available in Indonesia
Alliance Jiu-jitsu is one of the most prominent Brazilian Jiu-jitsu associations, and the current, defending Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World team champions,...
Religious Affairs Indonesia Moving
Easter recently came and went and so, with contrition on my mind, I took myself along to the Easter Sunday...