Posted in indonesiana on February 19, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Well, not literally, I guess. It is because the official statistic said there are “only” 12000 street children in 12 millions Jakarta’s population number. It is far for being a million, eh? But, Honey, the number is increased like the new malls in the capital city, so high, and available on every corner of the [...]
Posted in fashion, indonesiana, tv watch on February 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The best thing about living in Indonesia, the melting pot of all (mostly Asian) cultures, the “nusa-antara” or “between islands”, is the various holidays that we have. Last month we celebrate Islamic new Lunar Year and today it is the turn for the Chinese new Lunar Year or the Imlek Day. Millions of Chinese Indonesians [...]
Posted in indonesiana on February 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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Yesterday President SBY went to Karawang, West Java, to talk with farmers to gather first hand information on agriculture in the area. The way he conducted the meeting reminds me to his former boss, the late President Soeharto with his trademark “klompencapir” farmer show. On his way home, Pak SBY got trapped in Jakarta seasonal [...]
Posted in fashion, indonesiana on January 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Actress Lydia Pratiwi was sentenced in jail last year, she got about 15 years in prison after proven guilty in Gonggom Hutagalung murder. Months in prison did make a change in her appearance. A couple of days ago Lydia was interviewed and abracadabra, now she has a brace. Wow, Indonesian prison must be very complete and luxurious [...]
Posted in indonesiana, tv watch on January 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Oh no, it’s already midnight and there is still another Suharto show on TV!
Gee, for the last ten days my TVs (all of them, about 9 national stations) aired the ailing former President Suharto almost every hour, night and day. I don’t know what is happening with those producers and editors who treated Suharto’s news with [...]
Posted in indonesiana, postcard from heart on January 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I agree with Margaret Mitchell, the author of Gone with the Wind, who used that sentence as an ending for Scarlet O’Hara’s optimism, a very powerful closure for such an enormous but troubled life. Was that 2007 for us?
My partners in crime, Nicky and Bos Gondrong laughed to hear that.
“You mean enormous catastrophe?” said [...]
Posted in indonesiana, tv watch on December 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My sister called with a shaky voice, “The rain is still pouring. Part of the town has been sunk, I am scared, Mbak”. She and her tiny families live in Solo, the home of the famous Bengawan Solo river. One of Bengawan’s rivulet lies about three kilometers from her place. I ran to TV for [...]
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