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jerryvandenbrink/colson: @ Utomo: Your posts, your grandchildren, were my inspiration :) .

Utomo: Wow...I am glad to see you together again with your beloved grandson Kris !

Colson: @ Utomo: Thanks :) . Hope your 2013 may be healthy, happy and prosperous too.

Utomo: Wish you Great Holidays & Happy New Year 2013

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Luke: It would be worth the money, it would redeem Jakarta's historical cultural debt and it would be great to all inhabitants. So [...]

Luke: Hi Colson, Kota Tua has so much to offer once you are there and any improvement and change to the area to make tourist [...]

jerry van den brink/colson: I'll check my email :) .

Uti: Hi, Colson! I sent you an email. Just so you know, in case my email went to spam. :D

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Harry Nizam: Hope to keep it that way :) .

Harry Nizam: Hi Colson, your blog is okay now.

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The director and the aristocrat

So, Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono will – probably – be running for the Indonesian presidency next year:

Promising candidature. He seems to have a number of assets going for him. First of all a reputation of being a relatively able and modern administrator as the governor of his special province, the intangible but powerful [...]

November 20th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: indonesia, politics | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

“Asia is overcome by a tidal wave of common sense”

The quote is from Kishore Mahbubani, a learned and eminent Singapore citizen of Indian descent. He himself is making tidal waves in the media and universities by his books in which he castigates the West for arrogance, geo political incompetence and complacency, while at the same time he proclaims the ascent of Asian progress.  [...]

September 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: books, politics, social | Comments are closed

Indonesia, a Jilbab Democracy?

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 [...]

August 6th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: books, indonesia, politics | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

He who finally died…

and still attracts lots of attention!!

I guess at this point, unless you have no TV, radio nor pc connected to internet, it was hard to miss the news that Soehart a.k.a Suharto passed away yesterday because of multiple organ failure. The eldest daughter of Suharto broke the news to the media.

Ever since that [...]

January 27th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: indonesia, ramblings | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Tribute to a Victim

While the ruling elite in Jakarta is paying their respect to the dying ex-dictator, in a far away provincial city in North West Europe, a kind, intelligent, friendly, industrious and modest Indonesian man passed away. He was only in his early sixties.

He was a good man and a victim. He will not be [...]

January 17th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: indonesia, ramblings | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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