I came down to Jakarta last Friday amid some miscommunications. Anyhow, I looked in the newspaper yesterday to find out that the domestic terminal of the Medan airport in North Sumatra burned up. I have to transit in this airport for any domestic flight out of Banda Aceh! Medan is the third [...]
Since The Jakarta Post doesn’t archive its posts, I’m including a summary of a recent article.
Virginity test idea withdrawn
A controversial proposal to conduct virginity tests on female high school students in Indramayu regency, West Java, has been dropped following strong objections from students, parents and activists.
The rest of the article goes on to say that [...]
In a few hours, I move on. I’m leaving Makassar. First Jakarta, then Singapore, then ‘home’; whatever that means at the moment to me. I hope to see many of you soon.
Yes, the title tells of the official time left in Indonesia under the aegis of so-and-so. I don’t know what or where I’ll be doing next and I’ve given up thinking about that for now. These days I need to concentrate on the platefuls of work I have. It seems that the [...]
As I was jumping around the expat blogs for Indonesia, I found a link on Jakarta Guru (linked in the blogroll also) to myself and an Indonesian guy I’ve worked with in the past, Jalu. I worked on a parallel session for the workshop that took place at UIN Alauddin in November. Lo, [...]