They’re confident in their ability to change perceptions after having had positive experiences in the past when encounters started negative, but evolved into something positive.
Culture
The mayor of Bandung kicked off the so- called chickenisation campaign on Thursday by distributing 2000 baby chickens to students at several elementary and junior high schools.
The Indonesian Youth and Sports Ministry has set a target of grabbing three gold medals at the forthcoming 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games scheduled to start at the end of this month in the Philippines.
GMO, a Bali-based duo consisting of producer Kasimyn and MC Ican Harem, is a study in modern Indonesian electronica. They furiously blend footwork and hardstyle with indigenous dance genres.
Indonesia’s Yeyen Tumena is hoping to take advantage of the pressure provided by the home crowd in their Group G World Cup Asian qualification encounter against Malaysia.
Standing on her surfboard as it was lifted by a wave, Zahwa Ardika Utami is one of a small but growing number of girls breaking with Indonesian tradition to take up the macho sport.
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani mesmerised the audience with her gentle yet powerful message about different forms of discrimination inflicted upon career women of diverse backgrounds.
We have supposedly moved beyond the time when our parents exerted a large control over our decisions to marry; when women could not travel to faraway lands to pursue higher education…
A microwave stood out among appliances in an electrical household goods shop…
The work is fresh, strong, challenging, sometimes angry and very engaging – and you have less than a week to see it before it closes on Sunday.
Chinese-Indonesians in East Kalimantan have enjoyed a largely good relationship with native Bornean tribes since they first came to the resource-rich island.
The Free Fire esports scene in Indonesia has had an exceptional 2019. Earlier this year, the Free Fire Shopee Masters drew in crowds of up to 20,000.
Jahvis Loveday is a co-director, co-writer and co-producer of Home, the film that earned him the honour of Best Young Filmmaker at the ReelOzInd! 2019 short film festival.
“Bira reminded me of Kuta in Bali around 1978 (minus the surf breaks): laid back and rural, losmens scattered among coconut plantations,” writes Consul-General, Mr Richard Mathews.
Posko Palu is a documentary that tells the stories of children impacted by a series of earthquakes and a subsequent tsunami in South Sulawesi in 2018.
In 2003, a tiny skeleton was found in a cave on the island of Flores. Many things on Flores grow very big and very small – another example of how, biologically, islands are deeply weird.
