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The Big Squeeze Rafi the Dreamer Bye Bye Bunnies, Enter the Dragons Floods of Excuses Resolutions – At Least Make it Interesting
 

The Big Squeeze

Women from the arid island of Madura, east of Java, are famed for their ability to enhance sexual intercourse by the rhythmic clenching of their vaginal muscles. Some even take classes in sexual gymnastics to learn this supposedly secret technique, which has been passed down through generations over hundreds of years. Many also use tongkat [...]

Rafi the Dreamer

Rafi Abdurrahman Ridwan is a nine-year old hearing impaired boy from Jakarta with a vivid imagination and big dreams for the future. He has already managed to accomplish what many could only ever dream of and has become Indonesia’s youngest fashion designer. I first learnt of Rafi at Jakarta Fashion Week 2012 which was held [...]

Bye Bye Bunnies, Enter the Dragons

As the Year of the Rabbit nears an end, hundreds of expatriates in Jakarta’s Chinatown are preparing to return home for a month-long holiday. Most are young women from rural towns in southern China, many of them making a living in Indonesia as high-class escorts. Not all are sex workers. There are also singers, beauticians, [...]

Floods of Excuses

Floods by Pablo Neruda The poor live on low ground waiting for the river to rise one night and sweep them out to sea. I’ve seen small cradles floating by, the wrecks of houses, chairs, and a great rage of ash- pale water draining terror from the sky: this is all yours, poor man, for [...]

Resolutions – At Least Make it Interesting

When it comes to New Year’s Eve parties, there are only two corners of the room: The corner where some eyebrow-raiser is busy trapping girls and trying to impress by asking if they have any idea what “Auld Lang Syne” means and the one on the other side of the room, chock-full of people plugging [...]

Love is in the Air

17 February 2012

Do you remember the song Love is in the Air, which was a big hit by John Paul Young in 1978? I guess the normal people under us will, and don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean old people. When I say normal I mean the people that do not need the Internet to find [...]

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Love the Local Brew

17 February 2012

If you’re starved of somewhere to have a decent cup of coffee, look no further. Anomali prides itself for having the best local coffee from around Indonesia, with their fresh beans coming in from Bali, Java, Toraja, Flores, Papua, Aceh and Mandailing. We took a trip into their latest branch in Kemang to discover some [...]

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Simon L.

17 February 2012

Meet Simon the happy bachelor who doesn’t feel the need to fall in love. Simon, which answer best describes your current love situation?  a.) Single and happy  b). Single and lonely  c.) Single and definitely not lonely or d.) In a committed relationship. C. Single and most definitely not lonely. I didn’t even have to [...]

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Anna Ingrid Woolcott Feliciano

17 February 2012

Meet Anna Ingrid Woolcott Feliciano. The Danish Aussie animal lover who’s lived in more countries than most people will ever visit. Where do you come from? I am half Australian and half Danish. I’m officially an Australian, and I was born in Canberra, which I regret to say. Probably one of the most boring places [...]

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I Hate St. Valentine

14 February 2012

That’s the most stupid fake date on earth! When I was a teenager in Europe, it even didn’t exist (or maybe it did but I didn’t notice). We didn’t used to celebrate this date despite that it basically comes from the Roman Empire. Then when I was 20 or something like this, America sent us [...]

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Love In The East

14 February 2012

The early days of the expatriate in South East Asia, back in the 16th and 17th centuries were fraught with danger and the unknown. Never knowing when a passing ship would call in and take them home and consumed with a fear they may never make it back, some of those intrepid pioneers would often [...]

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Tee Off More

06 February 2012

Jakarta is probably one of Asia’s best golf destinations and certainly when judged from the amount of courses that can be played in and around the city, thirty eight in total. Next to fabulous golf, Jakarta also offers a thought-provoking package in “after” golf, meaning those pretty awesome things you can do once you’ve made [...]

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The Unnecessary Fire

06 February 2012

We call the magical device we have in our pockets a “phone”, but it really should be called a “communicator”. Amazing advances in technology in the last few years have turned the simple phone (which was amazing enough in its day) into a multi-platform multimedia communications device that gives us the ability to communicate in [...]

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Indonesia is Just Getting Started on the Internet

06 February 2012

Nielsen’s Southeast Asian Digital Consumer claims that Indonesia’s Internet penetration rate is at 21%, growing at 20% annually. Rama compared this to Singapore’s 67% which makes Indonesia’s adoption rate look very low, but consider the population numbers between the two countries, not to mention geographical differences. Indonesia had 237.6 million people in 2010 with an [...]

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Happily Ever After, or is it?

03 February 2012

The Jakarta Players are a group of people, young and old, from working mums and dads to students, from teachers to ladies who lunch, both expat and Indonesian with one thing in common; the passion for theatre. Come rain or shine, they gather for evening rehearsals during the week as well as rehearsals over the [...]

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