‘Why did you decide to become a Muslim?’ This is a question often asked of me. Whenever I visit a mosque or musholla, whenever I avoid food and drink due to fasting, whenever I say ‘Peace be upon you’ to a fellow brother or sister. And you know what? I have never been able to offer a good enough answer. For I would need to talk of pain and heartache, of family and friendship, of laughter and longing. And ultimately, of finding love and acceptance in the heart of Indonesia. ...

Setiap anak memiliki berjuta kisah yang istimewa. Meskipun terkadang tak semuanya indah, mereka masih bisa tersenyum bahagia. Itu karena kasih sayang yang mereka rasakan, seperti halnya kisah-kisah dalam buku ini. Ada Clara yang memiliki keluarga baru, Teddy yang harus memakai kaki palsu, Jane yang kehilangan ibu, dan kisah lainnya. Saat kita memberi cinta, kebaikan pun akan datang tak disangka ! Yuk, kita sama-sama baca kisah penuh makna dalam buku ini ! ...

In the fall of 2009, fifteen-year-old Brea Salim said her farewells, packed her bags and moved halfway around the world-all to enroll at a school called phillips Exeter Academy. Little did she know, the three-year journey ahead would be the hardest learning experience of her life... ...

Communication in business is certainly part of the success in achieving the ultimate target of the companies. It is necessary that the employees improve their communication skills in the English language in particular for efficiency and profitability. For educational purposes, this book was written and published mainly to give guidance and advice, provide points to ponder in their peers, clients, competitors that they are expected to win tight competition in business nowadays. If they are ...

The Question of Red tells the story of two lovers, Amba and Bhisma, driven apart by one of the bloodiest Communist purges in the 20th century the massacres that took place in Indonesia between 1965 and 1968 in which some 1 million people were killed. From rural Java and Yogyakarta to the prison camps of Buru Island, where some 12,000 alleged Communists were incarcerated without trial during the Suharto administration, the lives of the central characters interpret the Mahabharata that timeless ...

She has been accused of heresy since she was born. She has been considered deviant and must be excommunicated. On behalf of faith and love, her marriage is sacrificed. On behalf of God, she and her family were expelled, and their home was destroyed. It has been seven years now that Maryam and hundreds of others live in a refugee camp at a small and cramped government-owned building in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. The story of Maryam is a sad tragedy within a country full of beauty. What they ...

Buku ini terdiri dari 7 cerita utama yang berisi 7 kebiasaan (habit) yang ada pada buku utama karya Stephen Covey. Cerita-cerita dalam buku berpusat pada 7 karakter anak yang tinggal di Kampung 7 Oaks: Goob si Beruang, Jumper si Kelinci, Lily si Sigung, Sammy dan Sophie si Tupai, Pokey si Landak, dan Alli si Pembuntut. Setiap anak mewakili suatu karakter/kebiasaan tertentu yang nanti akan mengalami suatu pengalaman tertentu yang akan mengubah karakter/kebiasaan lama mereka atau justru akan ...

"Dad, can we have orca in our home? How About we catch an orca, dad? "Ayah, apakah kita bisa memelihara paus pembunuh di rumah kita? Bagaimana kalau kita menangkap paus pembunuh, Yah?" Orri's father replied, "Hm...I think it's impossible, son. Do you know how big an orca is? And where and how're you gonna keep it?" Ayah Orri menjawab, "Hm...aku pikir itu hal yang mustahil, Nak. Tahukah kamu berapa besar paus pembunuh itu? Dan dimana dan bagaimana ...

Trinity is Indonesia’s leading travel blogger and writer. Four volumes of “The Naked Traveler” have been published to date, and have quickly becomes Indonesia’s berst-selling travel book. For the first time in English, this compilation focuses on Trinity’s adventures in and around Indonesia, providing travelers to the region an indispensable insight into the culture and sight of this multi-faceted archipelago. - See more at: ...

Otto Cornelis Kaligis, a man whom Anand Krishna calls "the law icon", is appreciative to Anand's effort in writing this impressive work, which is based on O.C. Kaligis' life-story, A Man with Million Surprises. It is Kaligis' success as a man of spirit and his honorable personality that deeply impressed Anand and urged him to sublimate Kaligis' views and ideals in his writing and to share them here with us. O.C. Kaligis' is a voice in the wilderness. Amidst the ...

Mengapa buku ini ditulis? Pertama, kami ingin membeberkan sebuah peta baru mengenai potensi ekonomi koperasi yang selama ini nyaris tak terdengar. Sebuah badan usaha berlebel Koperasi acapkali hanya disejajarkan dengan bisnis kelas recehan dan tak diperhi-tungkan kontribusinya dalam peningkatan produk domestik bruto. Alasan kedua, sejak Aliansi koperasi Internasional (International Cooperative Alliance - ICA) menghimpun daftar 300 Koperasi Dunia (Global 300 List) pada tahun 2006, belum ...

"Mystical Dimensions of Islam, from its first appearance in 1975, has become the standard English-language handbook on the subject of Sufi sm. No scholar in the last half of the twentieth century had a greater impact on the study of Islamic mysticism than Annemarie Schimmel." - Carl W. Ernst, from the foreword   "A truly beautiful book. . . . Radiates an elegance of style. . . . Replete not only with the poetic insight of the author but with her unquestioned scholarly ...

Does the proliferation of jilbabs (headscarves) in Indonesia since 1998 mean the nation has gone hardline? How did democracy happen in Indonesia, which has the largest population of Muslims in the world, and will it stick? Is the term ‘Muslim feminist’ an oxymoron? Do Muslims even like sex? Julia’s Jihad provides the answer to these questions and much, much more: how the nation struggles to maintain the ‘unity in diversity’ of its 300 ethnic groups; how it practices ‘political ...