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Latest Korean Export : Hangeul Alphabet, To Indonesia

According to The HunminJeongeum Society (HunminJeongeum Research Institute), representatives from Bau-Bau decided to use the Korean alphabet in order to preserve their own language, a dialect that lacked a writing system. Created in 1443, Hangeul is often (...)

7 aoû. 2009 | | Stephanemot

Jakarta’s Latest Bombing Mastermind Point to Nurdin Top

Jakarta's Latest Bombing Mastermind Point to Nurdin Top

Indonesian Police Chief Bambang Danuri reveal on Friday (07/17) the device used on suicide bombing at J.W Marriott and Ritz Carlton have a similar feature with the device found by the police during raid on terrorist group suspected hideout in Cilacap (...)

20 Jul. 2009 | | Arry Raymond

Hotel Bombings in Jakarta Kill at Least 9, Wound Dozens

Hotel Bombings in Jakarta Kill at Least 9, Wound Dozens

The difference between Friday morning’s strikes and previous bombings in Indonesia some years ago is that there was initially a question of how stable Indonesia was after emerging from dictatorship. The bombers earlier in this decade hoped to bring (...)

17 jui. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Le Grand Guinol a l’Indonésien

Le Grand Guinol a l'Indonésien

I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason for this that everyone else knows, and someone will explain it to me, but I was a little surprised by this photo which appeared in today’s New York Times accompanying a very straightforward and (...)

10 Jul. 2009 | | Michael Froomkin

Indonesia Holds Fast To Secular Politics

Robin Shulman over at the Washington Post has an interesting report and opinion : that secular politics holds fast in Indonesia meaning Islamist Groups Expected to Take Back Seat in Vote. As a matter of fact, that’s what has been and will always be (...)

10 avr. 2009 | | A. Fatih Syuhud

Indonesia : The Stupid, it Burns

"The Stupid. It Burns !" I don’t know where this Simpson-esque phrase comes from, but The Stupid burns pretty bright in the brains of Republican Governors Mark Sanford and Bobby Jindal who are refusing stimulus money for unemployment (...)

26 mar. 2009 | 1 comment | Effect Measure

Yusuf Isak, the man of Jakarta, a missing link of 20th century history

Yusuf Isak, the man of Jakarta, a missing link of 20th century history

Yusuf Isak or Joesoef Isak. His name sounds like a combination of two biblical characters. In 2008 this man, on his 80th birthday, has finally received a belated but heartfelt tribute from his countrymen. His story summarizes the tormented history of a (...)

17 Mar. 2009 | | François 2009

Indonesian Youths and Overseas Voters Turn To Internet Ahead of the Election

Indonesian Youths and Overseas Voters Turn To Internet Ahead of the Election

Indonesian youths don’t talk passionately about local politics, most of them I’ve met even said that they are a confirmed "Golput" (means non-voter). This April, Indonesians will vote for the next president. The internet savvy youth is now (...)

16 Mar. 2009 | | Juliettecharlie

The Luxury of Transparency in Indonesian Democracy

The Luxury of Transparency in Indonesian Democracy

The third post-reformasi general elections is around the corner. With less than two months before the Election Day, political parties and their legislative candidates have been working hard to try to win the elections. Both first-timers and seasoned (...)

17 fév. 2009 | 1 comment | Ahmad Qisa’i

US Peace Corps in Indonesia

Indonesia is busy tightening its security ahead of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visit to Jakarta on Wednesday. One of the important agenda of talks between the two countries is the return of Peace Corps which was iniated during JF Kennedy and (...)

17 fév. 2009 | | A. Fatih Syuhud

Former President Soeharto Dies

Former President Soeharto Dies

General (retired.) Soeharto, the second Indonesian president, who has been in a very critical condition for few weeks, has died today in the RSPP (Rumah Sakit Pustat Peramina) hospital Jakarta. Indonesian government has decided to have a national (...)

29 jan. 2008 | 1 comment | A. Fatih Syuhud

Declan Butler’s interview with Indonesia’s health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari

Nature’s senior correspondent, Declan Butler, was one of the first to raise the profile of a pandemic threat in the scientific community and has had done some superb reporting since, including several stories on sharing gene sequences. The (...)

20 déc. 2007 | 1 comment | Effect Measure

Legal safeguards at the pre-trial stage for detainees virtually non-existent

The visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture found positive steps taken by Indonesia government in the last years to address torture and ill treatment at detention facilities but, according to a concluding statement, revealed that legal safeguards (...)

27 Nov. 2007 | 1 comment | Arry Raymond

Are Indonesia’s poverty rates declining ?

An old post by Arya Gaduh of Nalar Ekonomi caught my attention. It is about Indonesia’s latest poverty rates published by Statistics Indonesia (BPS) : It reports that the number of Indonesian poor declines by 2.13 million, or about 1.2 percentage (...)

5 nov. 2007 | 1 comment | Rasyad A. Parinduri

Indonesia and China and their promises

Indonesia and China and their promises

China has now agreed to send WHO bird flu isolates, but Indonesia, after first agreeing to do so, won’t. Or is it the other way around ? It’s easy to get mixed up because China has made this promise before (posts here, here and here) and so (...)

2 mai. 2007 | 1 comment | Effect Measure

Gus Dur, the PKB and a "Green Party"

Ex-Indonesia’s President, Abdurrahman Wahid or Gus Dur, has been known for his wits and his ability to coin and popularize new vocabularies. Vocabularies like kyai khos, kyai sepuh and kyai Langitan (the chosen Muslim preachers, the senior Muslim (...)

2 mar. 2007 | 1 comment | Ahmad Qisa’i

Indonesia Governement Will No Longer Dictate by IMF

January 23-24 visit is merely aimed at exchanging informations on global and Southeast Asian economic growths and also meant as a hospitality because this is the first visit of an IMF official after Indonesia pay its debt. On Jan 24, Rato and President (...)

24 Jan. 2007 | 1 comment | Arry Raymond

Indonesia Proposing Committee of Good Offices for Myanmar

Indonesian government proposing to form committe of good offices for Myanmar, the proposal delivered on ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Cebu last week, Minister of Foreign Affairs said. The committe will consist of three countries, which member are (...)

18 Jan. 2007 | 1 comment | Arry Raymond

Adam Air Plane Trail Found in Parepare Bay

The Adam Air Plane debris found on wednesday morning, around 300 meter off Mallawa beach, Barru district., South Sulawesi province, by local fisherman name Bakrie, said Edy Suyanto, the Coordinator of Search & Rescue team for Adam Air. The found (...)

15 Jan. 2007 | | Arry Raymond

Adam Air facing Civil Suit

Adam air, an indonesian budget carrier, facing civil suit for alleged regulation violation caused the accident of Adam Air Surabaya-Manado Flight on January 1, 2007. Advocacy Team Chief of People Coalition of Flight Service Consumer Habiburakhman said (...)

8 Jan. 2007 | 1 comment | Arry Raymond

Indonesia’s unemployment falls by one million

Says President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, referring to unemployment statistics in the last two years, highlighting the fact that unemployment rate falls for the first time during his administration. Employment statistics (million people) What he does not (...)

19 déc. 2006 | 1 comment | Rasyad A. Parinduri

A Skeptical Note on Bush’s Recent Visit to Indonesia

A Skeptical Note on Bush's Recent Visit to Indonesia

On Monday, 20 November 2006, the US President, George W. Bush was on a brief visit to Indonesia, the largest Muslim populated country in the world. He was in an Asian tour from Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia. Indonesia was his last stopover before (...)

24 nov. 2006 | | Ahmad Qisa’i

Easily Jealous Indonesian

If you are a long time friend of this blog, you must’ve read a post I wrote several months ago about how a British visitor was so impressed with our hospitality and warm attitude to everyone including to foreign guest. In case you missed it or (...)

14 sep. 2006 | 2 comments | A. Fatih Syuhud

Preventing Tsunami and Corruption in Indonesia

In a recent interview with The Jakarta Post, the Indonesian State Minister for Research and Technology Kusmayanto Kadiman explained about government’s plan to speed up the installation of a tsunami early warning system across the archipelago. He (...)

3 Aug. 2006 | | Ahmad Qisa’i

20 Minutes before Tsunami: They Knew It

20 Minutes before Tsunami: They Knew It

In my previous post on the Monday tragedy in West Java in which a 7.7 magnitudes earthquake centered in the seabed of the Indian Ocean resulted in the mild but devastating tsunami in the southern coastal lines of Java that killed more than 500 people and (...)

20 Jul. 2006 | | Ahmad Qisa’i

War and Peace as the Tsunami hits again

The Tsunami has hit again ! It hits my feelings too ! And very sadly and frustratingly : Indonesia received warnings from two regional agencies that the powerful undersea earthquake had the potential to trigger a tsunami, but it did not try to pass them (...)

19 jui. 2006 | | Moments In Words From Hadhramout

Quake and Tsunami Hit Java

On Monday afternoon, at around 3:19 PM local time, a strong earthquake of 7.2 magnitudes (USGS record) rocked the Indonesian capital, Jakarta in the western part of the Java Island causing tall buildings to sway creating panic to people in the capital. An (...)

17 Jul. 2006 | | Ahmad Qisa’i

Building a Bridge through Europe

On 20-21 June 2006, a second International Conference of Islamic Scholars was held in Jakarta. Representatives from various Muslim countries as well as those of other religious groups were present for the two days conference with the aim of building a (...)

13 Jul. 2006 | | Ahmad Qisa’i

Sport, Business and Israel

The unjustified ‘collective punishment’ by Israel to the Palestinian people seems to have evoked contradicting responses in Indonesia. Being a staunch supporter of Palestinian cause and statehood, Indonesian leaders think that Indonesia needs (...)

12 Jul. 2006 | | Ahmad Qisa’i

Abu Bakar Baasyir

Abu Bakar Baasyir

Islamic radical preacher Abu Bakar Baasyir has been much in the news recently in Indonesia after his release from prison. Abu Bakar Baasyir, a radical Islamic preacher in Indonesia, was released from prison recently after serving two and half years for (...)

3 Jul. 2006 | | Patung

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