Just some quotes from the International Edition of NRC-Handelsblad 25.11.08:
In an incident during the five years of guerrilla warfare before Indonesia won its independence, Dutch soldiers executed a group of around 431 men and boys in the West Java village of Rawagede on December 9, 1947. [...]
Sometimes, though these are very rare occasions, there is good news in the papers. This for instance was in the International edition of the NRC: “Dutch defence minister Eimert van Middelkoop says he is “very happy” he found a legal way to dodge his military service“. Generally speaking I don’t share Mr [...]
They are unrepenting. Always trying to find new accomplices. Never stopping to impose their economic morals.
Last Friday The Jakarta Post reported the OECD had said: “RI needs more liberalization”. That looks like a warning. But according to the Amsterdam based NRC this club of thirty rich, developed countries had offered a “Special [...]
The Book
It’s size is 30 x 25 cm, 280 pages and it was published by ISRY, Galeri Nasional, August last year. It’s content is strikingly apt and beautiful: short biographies on 34 female artists, a general but quite complete review of the artists’ track records and a lot of well chosen photo’s by [...]
Jakarta is a very modern, urban city. Amsterdam is a very modern urban city. Jakarta citizens and Amsterdam citizens both are 100% human – the same virtues, the same vices. We all live in a global village, a distance of 12.000 km doesn’t make much difference. Or is there? Take for instance “Alles is Liefde” [...]