Travel
Top 5 Bandung Snacks
Fitting in with the majority of the Indonesian population requires eating a lot of food and eventually not fitting your wardrobe anymore. Not only do you need to eat...
70 years of Indonesian Independence
Ed Caffin explores the long struggle for Indonesian independence and the bleak role the Dutch colonizers played in this process.On August 17, 1945 Indonesia declared...
Farewell to the Indies by Hans Vervoort
Farewell to the Indies is the English translation of Hans Vervoort’s book “Weg uit Indië” (2012). He is a fairly wellknown Dutch author born in the Dutch East...
Surabaya Beat
Indonesia is the country with the biggest fleet in the world. No other place on earth has more islands, boats and ships. Afterhours Books will present with its...
Inventing Art: The Painting of Batuan Bali
By: Bruce Granquist “In 1932, a few young men from the village of Batuan in Bali tried their hand at painting pictures on paper for the first time. As a result of this...
Ramadhan & Idul Fitri
By: Syazana Nur Ramadhan is not only a community binding ritual, it is also a personal journey. In this article Syazana from Malaysia shares her childhood memories...
A special circus in Siem Reap
In 2013 Phare Performing Social Enterprise (PPSE) was founded in Siem Reap to offer visitors and locals alike Phare The Cambodian Circus. This offers PPS students and...
S-21 Prison in Phnom Penh
Like Germany turned some of its former concentration camps into a museum, Cambodia soon understood that to learn from history you have to preserve the horrible remains...
Images of Cambodia by Peter van Riel
This year we had the privilege of participating in a press visit to Cambodia. The country is benefiting from two decades of relative stability, having endured civil war...
Blue Economy An Odyssey to Prosperity
By: Ardian Purwoseputro The Indonesian archipelago, the world’s largest, which lies between two oceans (the Pacific and the Indian Ocean) and two continents (Asia and...
