Brides For Sale: Contract marriage between Taiwanese men & Singkawang women
By: Bodrek Arsana Fifteen-year-old Su Phin dreamed of what many young women her age dream of: love, marriage, children, excitement, adventure. She dreamed of a way...
The Strange World of Indonesian Sports
By: Bodrek Arsana Indonesia is well known for many things, but not necessarily for its sports. With the exception of a few surfers, tennis players, badminton buffs...
Ghost Real Estate
By: Bodrek Arsana If you follow the Ayung river—which divides the region of Kedewatan (Gianyar) and Bongkasa (Badung) in the foothills of central Bali—you will...
Paying for the Sin of Pre-Natal Sex
By: Bodrek Arsana The twins—still un-named infants—are fast asleep on a mat on a bamboo platform. They are wrapped thickly in cloth and screened off behind ...
The Best of Bali’s Warungs
By: Bodrek Arsana Surrounded by the foreign franchises and the fancy “fusion cuisine” cafés, the Balinese warung holds its own. These traditional restaurants ...
Cultural Dirty Dancing
By: Bodrek Arsana Dirty dancing Balinese style? Joged bumbung is described in the guidebooks as a ‘traditional flirtation dance’. A pretty dancer in elaborate...
What does Geert Wilders want?
By: Emma Kwee Geert Wilders, enfant terrible of Dutch politics has yet again stepped on someone’s toes. Indonesian toes this time. This article explores the career...
Who Wouldn’t Want to Be a Millionaire? Multi-Level Marketing in Bali
By: Bodrek Arsana 40-year-old Dewa Made Oka, known to his friends as Genjing, is a famous figure in the village of Tampaksiring, Bali, twenty kilometers to the north...
Recipe for Jaja Matahari and Jaja Sirat
By: Mila Shwaiko This article was originally published in Latitudes magazine, a renowned bi-monthly magazine focusing on Indonesian culture. The magazine hailing from...
Orientalism: a false perception of the East
By: Ed Caffin Ed Caffin explores why western perspective on the non-Western part of the world is still distorted? In Edward Saids influential book Orientalism a...
