Situ Gintung Residents and the Leaders of this Dramaland

My condolences for Situ Gintung Residents that had their “little tsunami” yesterday, claiming 77 lives and counting.  After watching the horror via local news, I found another sickness grows bigger in that place. With less than two weeks towards the country general elections, the politicians shamelessly exaggerate the amplitudo of this disaster into their own [...]

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The Little Playboy Inside Us

You just have to hate him. His name is Pujiono Cahyo Widianto, 43 years old handicraft exporter from Semarang, Central Java. Rumor has it that he was a former encyclopedia salesman in Jakarta when one day he bumped his luck with one of Cendana families that gave him opportunity as businessman. A decade later Pujiono [...]

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Jakarta and all that jazz..

Jakarta is very melodious this week. A powerful weekend of jazzy concerts from the stages of 5th Java Jazz Festival started to lullaby  the town with  the almost any kind of jazzy tunes. We have the headline maker like the funky but overrated Jason Mraz , to the sultry Japanese Quasimode,  or packs of Indonesian [...]

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