Monkey Business
The title for this piece is perhaps a little ambiguous, as it will revolve around orangutans of Borneo rather than...
Travel
Sea Turtles: The Selayar Marine Conservation Challenge
It was a fine day in Benteng, Selayar. The 100-kilometre long island just off the southern coast of Bira, South...
Finding Nemo (in Bali)
Although the famous animation film starring a young clownfish and his father took place in Australia?s Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia...
The Last Orangutans and Dr. Galdikas: A Volunteer’ Story
Almost 20 years ago, in 1994, best-selling author Terry Pratchett first met the alpha male Kusasi in the rainforests of...
The Delicacy that May Turn Your Stomach
Eating a tambelo is a lot like swallowing 30 centimetres of your own mucus. Foodies brave enough to take the...
A Hop, Skip and a Jump to a Hawksbill Turtle Conservancy
We thought about turtles ? more directly, Hawksbill sea turtles ? and imagined their burnished shells gliding amongst the coral...
Ketut: the Hair and Beauty Stylist
Ketut is 27 years old and owns a local wedding and hair stylist salon in the back streets of Ubud,...
Kerinci Calling
Sumatra; while some may not know where it is, others conjure up thoughts of dark, unexplored jungles sitting on both...
The Long Way Home
English teacher Daniel Pope recalls his 1997 nightmare journey from Bintan to Jakarta - It began with a motorcycle accident....
Nyoman the Organic Advocate
Abe-do Organic Warung, located 2 kilometres from Ubud, in Banjar Kutuh Kaja, was created a year ago with only three...
Melodies from Indonesia’s Far South: Sasando, the Palm Harp of Rote
If the definition of heaven is a strange but comforting melody telling stories of the timelessness of the human soul,...
Barrier-Free Travel: Deaf Guides of Bali
One Balinese man is spreading awareness within Bali. Wahyu Cahyadi is deaf, and works as a driver and tour guide...
Raising the Dead
It is an hour before dawn as I make my way up the gently sloping hill to the cemetery outside...
The Ring of Ijen
Mount Ijen is a volcano complex in East Java, with the most popular attraction being a one-kilometre-wide, turquoise blue, acid...
Dana the Tour Guide
Leaving his village at the age of nine and finding himself on the streets of Jalan Diponegoro, the main street...
Bali to Flores Overland and Overseas
A three-week trip with two kids in tow from Bali to Flores by ferry, bus, foot, motorbike and shared taxi...
The Derawan Islands Made Easy
And so another sojourn in the far-flung archipelago of Indonesia; this time to the Derawan islands off the northeast coast...
(No) Stranger in the Third Culture Kid’ Homeland
In Confessions of a Third Culture Kid, I said I have a complicated relationship with the question, ?Where are you...
Bandung Heritage Walk
When visiting Bandung there are certainly many attractions to see, but few folk are aware of the fascinating heritage this...
Jakarta 100 Years Ago
Through the window of early photography, Scott Merrillees has brought the long lost world of Jakarta back to life in...
Another 100 Years: Timor’ Last Indigenous Religious Community
Raja Namah Benu, who ruled since his father?s death in 2005, invited us to his place and offered areca nuts...