Friday, March 29, 2024 | 04:32 WIB

SOCIAL CULTURE

Farewell to Pater Adolf Heuken: the Jesuit historian who loved Jakarta

IO - Pater Adolf Heuken helped to bury my mother up in the moun­tains near Puncak in 1994. Although she was not very religious herself, she came from a devoutly Catholic family in Germany’s Rhineland and Pater...

Indonesian goings-on at Schloss Sandizell Part II: The future counts of Sandizell

IO - Count Nikolaus von und zu San­dizell celebrated his 60th birthday at Schloss Sandizell last month with a medieval fair lasting 4 days and an evening dinner party for over 90 per­sonal friends....

The hopes of 1998 and some thoughts on freedom of expression in Indonesia today

IO - Article 28E paragraph 3 of the In­donesian Constitution guarantees In­donesian citizens freedom of expres­sion. After the fall of the New Order government there was an enormous euphoria with regard to democracy and...

Betawi in Paintings: An exhibition at Sunrise Gallery – a celebration of Jakarta’s local art

 IO - Sarnadi Adam is the most famous painter of Betawi art. He was born and raised in what is now the wealthy Simpruk neighborhood of South Ja­karta. When he was a boy it was called Kampung...

Indonesian goings-on at Schloss Sandizell Part I: Count Nikolaus of Sandizell

IO - “During the Habsburg Empire the Catholic Church played a very im­portant role. I believe that one of the things that the society developing in Europe today is missing is spirituality and it...

Kartini Day Part II: Sweden a paradise for women

IO - In Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana’s award winning novel Defeat and Vic­tory just after the Americans have occupied Japan at the end of the Sec­ond World some Japanese men are discussing what America will...

Kartini Day: Time to look at women in politics

IO - With Kartini Day just celebrated on the 21st of April, it is a good time to look again at the position of women in politics especially in the legislative body for it...

Fire and spirituality at Notre Dame Cathedral and Al Aqsa Mosque

IO - On April 16th 2019 the world awoke to the shocking news that fires had broken out at Notre Dame Ca­thedral in Paris and Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem at nearly the same time...

Tirta Gangga: Restoring Indonesia’s most popular royal water garden. Part II: The creation

IO - Anak Agung Angloerah Ketut Karangasem, the last rajah of Ka­rangasam finished creating the roy­al water gardens of Tirta Gangga in 1948. The gardens were later heavily damaged by the volcanic eruption of...

Tirta Gangga: Restoring Indonesia’s most popular royal water garden. ...

IO - The Tirta Gangga royal water garden in Bali’s eastern regency of Karangasam is not only a beautiful garden laid out in a manner reflecting the Balinese Hindu Buddhist religious philosophy. It is also...

Semar, the most Indonesian wayang figure: his role and meaning

IO - I was first made aware of the fig­ure of Semar many years ago through a Dutch member of the Euro parlia­ment named Janssen van Raay. He was born and raised in Indonesia...

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