Early morning Luwak coffee on Pahoda Hill, Lake Toba
Horas is the word for Batak people to greet each other. It’s more than just hello. It could mean how are you, good morning, afternoon and evening, wishing good health...
Hanging on a Limb: Indonesia’s Endangered Orangutans
The orangutan lives in the wild in only two places on earth: Sumatra and the island of Borneo. This means that most of them live within the borders of Indonesia. And...
Lake Toba Festival: dances, rituals and boat races
From Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, it is a 5 hour drive to the much cooler town of Balige (800 m above sea level) on beautiful Danau (Lake) Toba. We are invited...
A Certain Grace. Photobook on Papua
Perhaps this is the true nature of a mission trip—a spiritual journey that shapes you, as a living witness to the greatness of God. This was certainly the experience...
Raden Saleh The Beginning of Modern Indonesian Painting
An artist’s work must be viewed in the context of his or her time and intellectual environment. The book attempts to describe Raden Saleh’s life against the...
Dani: The Highlander
Dani The Highlander, is an ethno-photography and a visual witness of a tour operator about the traditional and primitive life of Dani Tribe and warriors living in the...
Design and architecture in Indonesia
Alexandra Crosby The role of design in social change has received increasing public attention in the last decade. User-centred, iterative, participatory flexible...
Design and architecture in Indonesia
The role of design in social change has received increasing public attention in the last decade. User-centred, iterative, participatory flexible approaches to the design...
Between science, art and social design there is community
Andreas Siagian is a cross-disciplinary artist with an engineering background focusing on creative communities, alternative education, DIY (Do it Yourself) and DIWO (Do...
Urban stickers surfacing in time
To talk about contemporary graphic design in Indonesia, we have to acknowledge the ubiquity of stiker kota, or city stickers. Stiker Kota are small (usually less than 15...
