Binding The Beauty of Batik Pesisir
By Hartono Sumarsono, Helen Ishwara, L.R. Supriyapto Yahya, Xenia Moeis While the beauty of Hartono Sumarsono’s batik pesisir collection may be appreciated...
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Craig Thomas Gallery is pleased to announce details of our two upcoming events for July 2017. The first will be our annual anniversary group exhibition of Vietnamese...
Beyond decent work
A new book examines Indonesian labour struggles through the lens of international political economy theory By Antje Missbach Indonesian wages continue to be among the...
Batik from Batavia
As one of the most prominent seaports in the Indonesian archipelago, Jakarta (Batavia) was visited by many people, tribes and nations who interact and assimilate with...
Gugun Blues Shelter: “Make Blues the Rice of Music”
By: Angela Richardson Blues musicians are generally known for playing covers and recycling existing songs, which in turn gives this genre a certain stigma ...
Nano Suratno: Father of Sundanese Music
By: Patrick Durkan Known more popularly as Kang Nano S. this prolific and influential composer did much for Indonesian and more specifically Sundanese (West Java) music...
Musings on Chinese Food
by Myra Sidharta Why would I, a person well known among my friends as a lousy cook, want to write about Chinese food? First, because in spite of my clumsiness in the...
Bonsai horse racing in Sumbawa
by Yuli Andari M. Sumbawa is inextricably associated with horses—not least because of a bombastic advertising campaign for the powers of “the milk of Sumbawa’s...
Monkey Business in Jakarta
by Matthew Isaac Cohen “Sarimin goes… to the market!” shouts the showman. “Da-da-dum, da-da-dum, da-da-dum” beats the drum. And the monkey goes through its...
Five years ago
Latitudes.nu has been online for 1,5 year now.In that period we published over 500 articles, by talented Southeast Asian writers, expats and travelers. Time to...
