Indonesia declared independence on August 17, 1945 Driven from the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese landed in 1942, The Netherlands refuses to recognize this declaration and sets out to recover their colony. The Dutch government decides to send a contingent to fight those it calls "terrorists". Among them, Johan Knevel, who was born "in the indies", hopes to regain the lost paradise of his childhood. He is faced with the reality of a war in which no one's hands are clean. ...

From the beginning Agung Rai was aware that reality is not slogan, and that slogan is not reality. Here is the place of in Bali with its highest awareness of uniqueness and the needs to preserve it. Also seeing Tri Hita Karana on trap of asphalt, concrete and kind of chemical poisons, but from twenty years ago, he made a tangible garden to meet Tri Hita Karana and it works: Nature, Sang Hyang Widhi and human made. Place where paintings made by maestro are shown, also gamelan (local instrument) ...

Indonesia declared independence on August 17, 1945 Driven from the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese landed in 1942, The Netherlands refuses to recognize this declaration and sets out to recover their colony. The Dutch government decides to send a contingent to fight those it calls "terrorists". Among them, Johan Knevel, who was born "in the indies", hopes to regain the lost paradise of his childhood. He is faced with the reality of a war in which no one's hands are clean. ...

Deskripsi in English Marni is an illiterate Javanese woman who still practices ancestor worship. Through her offerings she finds her gods and puts forth her hopes. She knows nothing of the God brought in from that faraway land. Rahayu is Marni’s daughter, part of a new generation shaped by education and an easier life. She is a firm believer in God and in common sense. She stands against the ancestors, even against her own mother. To Marni, Rahayu is a soulless being. And to Rahayu, Marni is ...

Buku berbahasa Inggris ini menguraikan bahwa kota Jakarta memiliki lima lapisan waktu yang saling tumpuk, saling berinteraksi, saling meniadakan, dan dalam tiap tumpukan memiliki kompleksitasnya sendiri. Penulis menelusuri jejak pengkolan dan puntiran dari setiap lapisannya. Penulis tidak hanya berhenti menelusuri masa lampau, tapi juga menganalisa, dan memberi arah bagaimana sebaiknya perubahan selanjutnya. ...

"This is the story of a white woman who lived for fifteen years in Indonesia---living, not visiting---knowing the country and its people, from the highest and the lowest, and sharing their joys and their sorrows."K'tut Tantri was looking for a land of peace and beauty, and found her paradise in Bali. Through the eyes of Prince Anak Agung Nura, she fell in love with the people and its culture, and began what will become a lifelong friendship. When war shattered her languid life in the island of ...

Set in the tumultuous days of the mid 1960s, The Dancer describes a village community struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world. It also provides readers with a ground-level view of the political turmoil leading up to and following the abortive Communist coup. ...

On November 12, 1991, the Indonesian military opened fire on East Timorese protestors in Dili, the capital of East Timor. Hundreds of people were killed and accounts of this massacre sparked international outrage. In Jakarta a cover-up began immediately: the Soeharto government declared the killings an “accident” provoked by armed provocateurs. The Indonesian mass media was cautioned to tow the official line. Seno Gumira Ajidarma, editor of Jakarta Jakarta at the time, refused to do so and was ...

The months following the fall of Soeharto in May 1998 comprise one of the most tumultuous periods of modern Indonesia history. Many Indonesians refer to those months as the jaman edan, a poetic term for a chaotic time when evil is rewarded and good punished. The jaman edan, while a time of horror and suffering, had its share of absurdity and farce.Jakarta Jive is a chronicle of the jaman edan through the eyes of those who lived through it. At times humorous, at other times harrowing, Jakarta ...