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Can Fruit Provoke? The Dizzying Durian
Love it or hate it, the durian definitely makes an impression. Undoubtedly the most fragrant of fruits, the durian (which gets its name from the Malay word for...
Supporting Children in Indonesia
It started 25 years ago when the Dutch family Van den Berg organised settlements and aid for sea nomads in Indonesia. It led up to the construction of a hospital,...
Can a Vegetable be Political? The Story of Genjer
"The vegetable genjer? It's been a really long time since I've tasted it," said Mbah Sukri, a 69-year-old retired textile factory worker from the Sleman area of...
Photobook on Sidoarjo disaster
In 2006, Indonesia also experienced a disaster that some people would rather forget, the Porong, Sidoarjo mud eruption, the biggest mud flow in the world that became a...
Photobook on Poison
This book is a poison—delivering visual interpretation about sex and death. Sex and death is a nature of being: sex is the gate to the birth and death stands at the...
Book on Balinese artist Lempad
I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, who died in 1978, is an acknowledged icon of Balinese art with a reputation that is unsurpassed. Considered one of the first modern Balinese...
Book on Indonesia’s waterscapes
Land of Water Vol I: Bali to Komodo"is a unique, personal, scrapbook-like travel accounts by yacht to exotic and remote areas in the eastern islands of Indonesia...
Book on Wayang Potehi
Indonesia is blessed with vast and unique arts and culture—a result of being a melting pot of different cultures that ever visited the archipelago for centuries. One...
Trucker Life in Indonesia
By: Ajar Abdillah Edi On the Indonesian road, the truck is king. One blare from its horn can force other vehicles into submission, sending them seeking refuge off the...
Eurasian Indonesians The different and difficult experiences of a minority
Hendricus’ mother chose to remain in Indonesia. In 1956 she married an Ambonese man, and Hendricus eventually followed in his stepfather’s footsteps and entered the...
