What We Bring to the Table
My family and I are moving house – no small feat in the world’s largest archipelago. Our imminent upheaval to...
Simon J. Still
The Day We Put a Price on Love
I have vivid memories of my early years, and no trouble recalling my first Valentine’s Day. I may have been...
Leaving Behind Nothing but Your Footprints
On a long weekend with his family and close friend, a Makassar-based expat decides to travel to Samalona Island in...
Crime Tsunami
It was with a certain amount of self-congratulation that we use to talk of our social evenings in Makassar. We...
How the Other Ninety Ninth Live
Some time ago I had the privilege of being invited to a jolly Chinese Malaysian’s house. He was a big...
A Mended Broken Promise
I arrived in Indonesia more than ten years ago and then duly scarpered back to England. After a year of...
On Deadly Roads
I’ve never felt so close to pounding someone’s face with my knuckles. How has road behaviour degenerated to such mindlessness,...