Tag: Culture, indonesia, Lifestyle, Toys
Childhood Memories Preserved in Pandes
By: Labodalih Sembiring In the 80s, in towns and cities across Indonesia, the most modern toys a kid could find were arcade game machines and battery-powered,...
Run, Scott, Run!
By Angela Richardson, first published in Jakarta Expat 1,250 kilometres in 25 days, from Bali to Jakarta, running through the sweltering 32 degree Equatorial heat and...
AKA – HARD BEAT
By: Kees Schepel In 2011 Canadian record company Strawberry Rain Records released Hard Beat (available on cd and on vinyl), an anthology of the Indonesian band AKA....
PicLyf, a Filipino photo-based social network
By: Jesse Boga Is PicLyf something I’d want to add to my social networking routine? Yes. This Filipino-made photo-based social networking site has all kinds of...
Tran Anh Hung: An introduction to the films of a Vietnamese-French maverick director
By: Patrick Durkan Vietnamese film maker Tran Anh Hung has a European arthouse aesthetic and philosophy which he applies to East Asian settings and characters. This...
From Zwolle to Phnom Penh – Ramon Flicks the Switch in Cambodia
By: Gabi Yetter When people come to Cambodia, they usually take a while to settle in. Not Ramon Stoppelenburg. Ramon arrived in Phnom Penh last September, found a...
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...
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...
Waria: The Lives, Struggles & Issues Raised by Yogyakarta’s Transgender Community
By: Monica Dominguez If you decide to romp the late night streets of Yogyakarta, you might encounter one of the area’s 350 waria performing in the streets, ...
