The death of a Hawaiian princess. Part I: The funeral of Abigail Kawananakoa
IO - Both Indonesian as well as Hawaiian are part of the Austronesian language group, as well as a part of the Malay-Polynesian branch of Austronesian languages. In Hawaiian, the word moolelo means story,...
The Indonesian Architectural Museum and its exhibition on Indonesian architects who studied in Germany
IO - The Yayasan Museum Arsitektur Indonesia or ‘Foundation for the Museum of Indonesian Architecture’ held a highly interesting and informative exhibition in Jakarta at the Taman Ismail Marzuki art centre, this month entitled:...
The old sugar world of East Java. Part II: Wonolangen and Oemboel sugar factories
IO - Sugar has meant many things to many people. For some it is simply a very enjoyable taste which gives them instant energy, for others it has been used as a medicine, a...
The old sugar world of East Java. Part I: The town of Probolinggo
IO - Years ago across the small valley at the foot of our garden in the mountains of West Java, there was an apple orchard with roses. A Eurasian man managed the gardens and...
Bob Geldof and his struggle for Africa
IO - I am not a very musical person and growing up, the pop music of my youth never interested me much. There was really only one song that truly caught my attention and...
The house in Tugu and its literary circle. Part VII: American writer Richard Wright and the Asia-Africa Conference
IO - One thing that attracted my attention in the garden of the Tugu house were the plants that kept changing their colours until reaching a final colour, before obtaining full maturity. The handkerchief...
The house in Tugu and its literary circle. Part VI: Beb Vuyck and those who love red
IO - My father grew roses in Tugu but they were not his favourite flower. Those were the flaming red amaryllis lilies. When he first discovered them, with the impulsiveness and ardor of an...
The house in Tugu and its literary circle. Part V: The new German mother
IO - My German mother, Margret Alisjahbana first heard of Indonesia when as a child her uncle who was an opera singer divorced his wife and she then married a man who was made...
The house in Tugu and its literary circle. Part IV: The Indonesian Writers
IO - One of the things that my father, the late Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana used the house in Tugu for was to create a literary salon – although that is perhaps too fancy a...
The house in Tugu and its literary circle. Part III: Kartini and the Indonesian Socialist Party (PSI)
IO - The house in Tugu has always been associated with roses. I still look for the old fashioned roses from the Dutch times (or perhaps they are from an even older period and...
The house in Tugu and its literary circle. Part II: Maria Dermout and The Ten Thousand Things
IO - Let us be clear from the start so as not to disappoint too much any fans of Maria Dermout, one of the great names of Dutch literature: she never visited the house...
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