Henk Schulte Nordholt ends his book (”Indonesia na Suharto, reformasi en restauratie“, 2008;ISBN 978 90 351 31354 ) with a quote by Ben Mboi, ex governor of Nusa Tenggara Timur: “Indonesia is like the Titanic. The only difference is that Indonesia keeps on sinking without perishing“.
I can say it at the outset: this is solid [...]
It’s a disconcerting idea. But it appears there are quite a number of witnesses for the prosecution.
The awful versatile, energetic and prolific rimafauzi, who usually is in a upbeat mood on her blog but never unwilling to aim at some blatant abuse neither, recently wrote a post which looked like a sincere [...]
Today the Indonesian Ambassador in The Hague, Junus Effendi Habibie, was interviewed for half an hour by Clairy Polak in “Buitenhof”. Which is the main Dutch (weekly) TV program on social, economical and political issues.
Habibie, who speaks Dutch fluently, made it clear he played an important part in the damage control of “Fitna”. It [...]
Next week it will be all about Indonesia in this building. A rather formidable line up of international brainpower will discuss “Indonesia ten years after (1998 – 2008)”. Suharto fell, the dictator was deposed, this month ten years ago. On may 22nd and 23rd scholars* from Indonesia, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Norway, Germany and [...]
Wilma van der Maten is an anthropologist and journalist. Well, actually a professional journalist. She was “our women in Jakarta” from 1999 up to 2007 for Dutch public radio and TV. Usually she provided for reports which took 60 seconds or three minutes max, and were about bomb blasts, tsunami’s and human interest.