I’ve drank coffee quite a bit in the past few years and Aceh is a great place for coffee. The idea behind the brewing here is that the longer the drop from the filter to glass, the better the taste. In reality, a fair amount of coffee gets splattered around my cup rather [...]
It’s Good Friday and the university is off. There is also a conference co-sponsored and coordinated by UIN Alauddin on Gender and Women in the Era of Globalization. There are some speakers here from a university in Hamburg, Germany doing the honors as well. It’s a cool 250,000 for the three day [...]
November 19, 2006 – 6:59 pm
The esteemed POTUS will be arriving sometime tomorrow in Bogor an area outside of Jakarta. The local schools were told to give the students a day off to ease the amount of people going through the city. I have heard that the telecommuncations in the Bogor area will also be cut off for [...]
September 26, 2006 – 6:01 am
Initially, I thought it would be interesting to document how many rallies or demonstrations occur at the university. It’s getting rather dull. Today, students were in front of the university president’s office with bullhorn. I’m not actually sure what gets accomplished by these demonstrations, being that there are less than fifty students [...]
September 20, 2006 – 6:42 am
Yes, yes, yes, the students were restless this morning. They blocked the entrance to the university. One student was standing on a wooden chair taken from a classroom and using a bullhorn. No one would tell me what the reason for the demonstration. As I left in the evening, I saw [...]