Yesterday there was this article in the Jakarta Post on how “sculptor Ibnu Nurwanto aims to break the politico-religious discourse on sexuality“.
Well, let’s hope he succeeds. Because muzzling artists would deprive us from what Indonesian painters, sculptors and others can offer. By research ( by googling that is) I got interesting hits. That should [...]
If the meltdown of the economic system can be stopped in time, some of us will leave the financial safe houses where we have run for cover and fly to Indonesia next year. There will probably be visits to family in Sumatra, friends in Jakarta, places of leisure in Bali or Lombok and reconnaissance operations [...]
The US, Europe, Japan, Russia, Brazil – all of them are facing an economic depression as the follow up of the financial crises. And all of us will suffer. Severely.
Maybe not really all of us though. Maybe Indonesia will escape the economical catastrophe ahead. “President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia would not see a repeat [...]
Nobody can miss it: a kind of earthquake has hit the financial and economical world. Experts and governments – ironically they are usually the same experts and officials who created the mess – are in a hurry to take measures to restore calm on the stock markets and confidence in the financial system. One of [...]
I wonder whether it occasionally happens to you also. I mean the instances you are are so stunned about someone’s words, ideas or behavior that you want to ask: “Jeez, in what world are you living?!”
Some minutes ago it happened to me. I did hit upon this line in a The Jakarta Post article on [...]