Cross-Cultural Couples: Rithy and Sylvia
By: Abigail Gilbert & Emma Kwee Yes, it’s time to meet yet another cross-cultural couple! Feel free to meet the other couples featured in this series. This time...
Reformasi or deformasi?
Indonesia’s House of Regional Representatives is one of its worst performing political organisations Jeremy Mulholland The DPD is at the bottom of the heap Jeremy...
A Short Guide to (New) Indonesian Cinema
By: Reza Daffi Indonesian cinema seems to mirror developments in Indonesian society. During colonial times most movies had Dutch involvement on one level or the other....
Malaysian Cinema, a Brief Overview & a Personal Top 10
By: Melissa Lin Remembering our roots Film making in Malaysia can be traced back to the 1930’s. The first production, Leila Majnun, is a well known Persian love...
ASEAN Film Festival Focuses on Developing Film Industries: ‘Film is business’
By: Yvette Benningshof While outside the streets were buzzing with traffic and guarded transport because of the 19th ASEAN Summit in Nusa Dua, inside of Galeria 21...
Setia Darma House of Masks and Puppets
By: Maya Liem Bali is one of the last remaining places in Indonesia with a living tradition of the mask dance and the wayang theatre. The largest collection...
Cambodia’s Elusive Justice: How the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Finds Itself in a Loaded Minefield
By: Olesia Plokhii PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Like those lush green pastures with roaming cows and floating pink water lilies in rural Cambodia, where children still lose...
Balinale International Film Festival 2011: A Movie Marathon on One Screen
By: Yvette Benningshof The directors of Balinale International Film Festival certainly have a nose for special international and Indonesian feature films, in depth ...
Reintroducing Lasem’s Brilliant Batik
By: Labodalih Sembiring Batik is a cloth with distinct local and traditional patterns, created by a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. UNESCO designated Indonesian...
Rismakill Drama Darkcloth: Indonesian D.I.Y. Fetish/Punk/Gothic Clothes & Corsets
By: Monica Dominguez D.I.Y. in Indonesia, a National Attitude Indonesia is laced with a D.I.Y. ‘Do It Yourself’ mentality. If your motorcycle breaks, you buy the...
