SOCIAL CULTURE
What is Troubling Jakarta’s Cultural Centre, Taman Ismail Marzuki?
IO - The nine hectares of land where the Taman Ismail Marzuki Jakarta Cultural Centre or Pusat Kebudayaan Jakarta Taman Ismail Marzuki now stands once belonged to the celebrated 19th century Indonesian artist Raden...
We Walk Amongst Ghosts: an exhibition inviting us to become thinkers and philosophers…
Jakarta Museum of Ceramics and Fine Arts launches an exhibition of ideas by well-known Indonesian and international artists…
IO - Yayasan Mitra Museum Jakarta or the Foundation for Friends of Jakarta Museums in collaboration with...
Indonesia is working hard to improve its disaster preparedness for Flash Floods and Landslides…
IO - “It would be better not to move Indonesia’s
capital to East Kalimantan if it only ends up in the destruction of local
forests… and I shall personally put a stop to it (the relocation...
Traditional Chinese new year celebrations are longer than most people are probably aware…
The lunar new year is essentially to welcome spring and it starts with the winter solstice and ends in April with Ceng Bing. Here is the Jakarta story of Imlek near Kota Tua or...
Tony Prabowo, Indonesia’s most celebrated composer and his masterpiece: the opera Gandari
IO - “Every evening a wounded soldier arrives and cries, ‘Your servant brings you news of the wars your Majesty,’ - and it is always ill news…” declares Christine Hakim in an ancient voice...
The Kamoro art exihibition and auction at the Darmawangsa…
IO - One of the most important Kamoro myths is that of the dragon now usually referred to by them as the komodo dragon which Kal Muller in his book Kamoro, a Tribe of...
Tulola Jewelery a mirror of Nusantara, the Indonesian archipelago…
IO - At the opening of the Tulola Nusantara Exhibition on the 22nd of November 2019 at the Bimasena Club in Jakarta the first thing to greet the eye was artist Joko Avianto’s mammoth...
Indonesian Ambassador to Bulgaria, Astari Rasjid – Succeeding with Cultural Diplomacy
IO - Astari Rasjid is not a career diplomat but an artist who was posted as Indonesian ambassador to Bulgaria, Albania and Macedonia in 2016. From the start Astari said that she would be...
Indonesia is not signing UNESCO’s Convention for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage
On the 5th of November 2019 UNESCO held a forum on Safeguarding and Reviving the Shared Maritime Cultural Heritage of Southeast Asia at the Maritime Museum in Tanjung Priok where it attempted once again...
Bobby Freeberg flew for the Republic
It is nearly seventy years since Bobby Freeberg, his crew and the RI-002, the first plane of the Indonesian Air Force disappeared while blockade running for the Indonesian government with a cargo of gold....
Going green in Jakarta expresses itself in many ways…
IO - Greeta Thunburg is a political activist and climate change warrior but most of all she is a child who is frightened at the possibility of the destruction of the world and the...
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