What do you know about the Ondel-ondel? How much do you know about Betawi culture? If you have no idea about Betawi culture, it’s completely fine. I, myself, didn’t think much about it until I was caught in Jakarta’s traffic, when I saw a pair of exhausted Ondel-ondel in worn-out costumes roaming on the street, asking people for money. This embarrassing scene made me wonder and curious to know more about the Ondel-ondel story. What happened? Ondel-ondel Galau is about a young girl, ...

I see a piece of hand-drawn batik as a silent testimony of a tradition that brings together the creative best of so many devoted people. It is this acknowledgement that awakens my deepest respect. The amount of energy, deliberation, and love that has gone into the creation of batik is unfathomable. No batik piece is a work of a single person. Batik comes to life through a chain of expertise, a dedicated set of tools, and a regiment of processing methods which have been perfected for hundreds of ...

Indonesia is a very significant country of Southeast Asia. Even though it possesses characteristics that can make it the third "rising power" of Asia its size, population, and its location in the Strait of Malacca, etc.it has not yet shown a resolve to exploit those characteristics to become one. When it decides to become the next rising power, it has todevelop systematic plans of economic development and use economic wealth stemming from such development for building its military (Tentara ...

What hides under such a trumpeting title? What is today's Bali? Is it so different from yesterday's? Perhaps, but perhaps not too... Bali today actually refers to a method, which has been that of the principal writer, Jean Couteau, and his friend Usadi Wiryatnaya while runnning a daily "English Corner" at the Bali Post, the island's main newspaper, between 1991 and 1994. Everyday an article had to be written on Bali or a Balinese topic. This volume is the first in the series. It deals with ...