Here’s a link to the summary of a paper written by the International Crisis Group regarding the standing conflict in Central Sulawesi. I’m living a good plane ride from the area but the current events are riveting.
Another article in today’s NYT talks about Barack Obama’s childhood experience in Indonesia. There was a brief [...]
Continuing in the spirit of positivity I’m posting a link to someone else’s top ten list of living in Indonesia. I’m not saying that I agree with it all, but I do agree with most of it.
This post is in response to a comment of the last post. I guess I might have been focusing too much on the negative. I would not be here if the situation was as negative as some would get from the things I do write about.
I’ve returned from Jakarta/Puncak today. The first [...]
As is well known, Asia has lax enforcement in global copyright laws. This can be seen by going into shopping centers and finding kiosk upon kiosk of bootleg DVDs on the same floor as upscale clothing vendors. It’s out in the open and not even a blackmarket type of thing around these parts. [...]
The rain hasn’t gotten nasty again yet, the medicines are officially finished today and I’m on the better part of the mend. I even ran into work with Safir for a bit of a while to organize things at the teacher center. Oh, and I found out Friday that my last-minute request to [...]