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Finally Woken: Hey Colson, just drop by to say hi. Hope you enjoy the newcomer of the family. Heard he's a big 1 month-old boy 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 radiation of [...]

“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. While [...]

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 is solid [...]

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 moment it [...]

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 in [...]

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