NAIDOC week has just begun and, after several tumultuous years of disasters in Australia, the theme this year is Heal Country. In the last two years, Australia has suffered crippling drought that saw the Darling-Baaka run dry, catastrophic bushfires, and major flooding throughout coastal and inland areas of Australia’s east.
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Indonesian Community Connect Inc. hosted a ribbon cutting and networking event that served as a platform for the organization to present their Little Indonesia vision to the local business community.
It was once fought over by the Europeans for its abundance of nutmeg and cloves — giving it the nickname the “Spice Islands” — but the Indonesian province of Maluku has largely been forgotten this century.
Social, economic and environmental change is sweeping across Indonesia – bringing new opportunities for the country’s young people.
“Being a participant in NAILA was possibly the most positive experience in my life”
The fifth episode of “Racket Boys,” which aired June 14, centered on a fictitious international badminton competition in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The special meal resulted in flocks of motorcycle delivery drivers showing up at outlets across Indonesia, with most of the restaurants unprepared to manage the turnout.
The most elusive yet personal of the senses, an olfactory cue can incite different things in the minds of different people. The recent years have seen the rise of numerous brands exploring the world of olfactory in Indonesia, each with their own take on how they present their scents.
Congratulations to AIC Industry Fellow and Monash Research Fellow Dr Lily Yulianti Farid, has been awarded a grant to build further on her work to revive and retell stories about the ancient trade between Indigenous Australians and the Makassans.
Public servants in Indonesia will soon be able to work from Bali through a government initiative to “revive the tourism and creative economy industry” on the island, but the program has also raised some eyebrows.
As one of the most popular pop bands in Indonesia for over two decades, Naif is no stranger to fame and popularity. However, on May 11, the word “Naif” trended on Google for all the wrong reasons.
Some of the most well-known monsters, which originate from old animist beliefs shaped by Hindu-Buddhist cosmology and later Islam, include the “‘pontianak” – known as “kuntilanak” in Indonesia.
Dua Personel boyband asal Korea Selatan, Super Junior, Leeteuk dan Yesung mengunggah foto menggunakan pakaian batik. yang dibuat oleh Gubernur Jabar Ridwan Kamil. Salah satunya Yesung yang yang juga mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Ridwan Kamil.
There are three things we could be doing right now to stem the decline in Indonesian language learning in Australian schools and without nation-wide policies Indonesian could be relegated to a forgotten corner of our education experiences.
“Pulau Plastik” is a new documentary about the sources and consequences of, and possible solutions to the scourge of plastic waste that pockmarks so many of Indonesia’s 17,000 islands.
For most of his life Raymond Douglas Chong knew nothing about his Chinese family tree going back more than 150 generations and 4,000 years.
