20 May 2012
First published on Alterity Incredible as it may seem, but just 120km (75 miles) from the bustling metropolis of Jakarta live an ancient tribe of people who eschew the modern world entirely. They are the Amish of Indonesia and are known as the Badui (although they call themselves Kanekes). They number only around 6,000 and [...]
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20 May 2012
Wine is the only subject that I can’t handle as the “Grumpy French Man”. Wine is not only alcohol for me. It contains alcohol, nobody can deny this point, but it contains much more than that and it’s why I don’t drink beer or strong alcohol. Wine is a sharing drink that fills your mouth [...]
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10 May 2012
If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ Is there any real correlation between higher acquired intelligence (through education) and sense of humour? Research has it, there is. But maybe not really? Time and again, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ dollars in industrialized countries had [...]
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10 May 2012
So Mark, what were you doing before you started Equinox Publishing? I started working in Switzerland after college with a bank and they moved me around a few times from Zurich to Hong Kong, back to Zurich and then finally here in Jakarta in March 1997. You know – young, dumb and full of…ummm…energy – [...]
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08 May 2012
Ian Burnet, a former geologist and avid historian is visiting Jakarta, he spoke to us about his recently published book Spice Islands. Spice Islands takes the reader on the historical quest for spices. The book starts with the fact that cloves and nutmeg only grew on a few tiny islands of Maluku in Eastern Indonesia, [...]
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08 May 2012
‘‘I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way’’. I couldn’t agree more with this excerpt from the first verse of an 80’s hit song performed by the late Whitney Houston. In the urban areas of Indonesia, a growing middle class backed by rising incomes has increased the [...]
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08 May 2012
Alcoholics Bar & Grill Jalan Kemang Raya no. 72N Jakarta Selatan 021 7195675 info@alcoholicsbar.com If you’re trying to wean yourself off the booze, maybe it’s better you stay away from this extremely pro-alcohol spot in Kemang which just opened on the 28th of April, apply named Alcoholics Bar & Grill. Run by duo, Chef Patrick [...]
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07 May 2012
The Raid: Redemption is an Indonesian film like no other. It’s a wildly exciting adrenaline rush of a punch fest that recently reached number 11 at the U.S. box office, a phenomenal achievement for an Indonesian film. It has electrified Indonesian audiences and injected new energy into the national film scene, standing head and shoulders [...]
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07 May 2012
Meet Andreas Stokowy. The German Restaurant Manager and Founding Member of the Combined Martial Arts Academy Jakarta. Andreas, where are you originally from? I was born in 1962 Germany, growing up in and near Hamburg. In 1978 I started as a Fish Breeder and Fishery Biologist at a combined fish farm near Bremen. [...]
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30 April 2012
I have decided I am going to be completely honest with everyone from now on. No more lies, no more pretence. When I meet people I don’t like, I’m going to punch them in the face straight away. When someone asks me a stupid question, I’m not going to answer politely any more, I’m just [...]
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