Trouble is ahead.
The reverent at the Church wedding in Lampung had told us so: it is all about “kommunikasie”. He meant between husband and wife. But I know by now it goes for the relationship between granddaughters and granddads also.
Devica Esha is starting to speak. Well, most of it is still incomprehensible to everybody except [...]
Human rights activist Munir Said Thalib was murdered. Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, former Garuda pilot, has been convicted for the murder. But, as the JP reported today, the man who allegedly instructed the murderer, was cleared by the court’s president, Judge Suharto (sic). But then, what else could have been expected since this was Muchdi Purwoprandjono, [...]
Some of my fellow heathens here complain that the bigots have taken over. They do have a point, I´m afraid.
Some twenty years ago, when I visited Singapore, there were rumors that the pretty autocratic government of the city-state planned a ban on smoking in public. At the time I said: no sweat, I don’t smoke [...]
Indonesia can be found this month in one of the articles of PNAS (”Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”). It deals with the large scale fires in Kalimantan, West Papua and Sumatra.
It takes the authorities off the hook- to a limited degree that is. Their responsibility is relative, because in it’s summary the authors [...]
Indonesia has been there before. And it took the country nine years to recover.
The wise and sensible Paul Krugman’s said: “the world is Indonesia now”. He was referring to Indonesia’s economical crises, which did hit Asia and particularly Indonesia, a decade ago. Like the US and Europe now, in ‘97 it also was all about [...]