Today is a holiday according to the Christian faith. I don’t ever remember having this holiday off in the US. Perhaps, it is the effort of a pluralist society to even up the holidays of the religions granted legal status in Indonesia. Oddly, in a city of 80% Muslims, most of the [...]
Today was more of yesterday ie demonstrations. Only the nightly news today showed businesses shuttered as groups of men rode by on scooters and stopped now and then to pelt the upper, unshuttered windows with rocks. A person at work pointed out that the pinkish blazers being worn by some of the people [...]
Work was finished and I was waiting in front of the university for a taxi, minding my own business. A few students or non-students came and went. Nothing unusual. Nothing unusual until someone pulled a couple wooden chair/desks out into the road while grumbling orang Cina (Chinese). There were four or [...]
My first try as a travel guide was a rousing success, or my visitors were good liars. The interesting thing about visitors is that they see things from the perspective you once did. In other words, what is old is new again.
We spent a few days in Jakarta and showed them the [...]
April 20, 2006 – 10:41 am
Today, there were a few students in the street, not obstructing traffic, with bullhorn. As the taxi pulled into the campus, I saw a group of students in front of the Rektor’s (university president) building. A tire was already burning amid chanting students. Apparently, they were rallying to have some administrative paperwork [...]