SOCIAL CULTURE
Part II: Rememberance event in Bali for Indonesian feminist writer N.H. Dini
IO - The Indonesian novelist N.H. Dini passed away in a traffic accident on the 4th of December in Semarang at the age of 82. A remembrance gathering was held for her at the...
Part I: Rememberance event in Bali for Indonesian feminist writer N.H. Dini
IO - Was N.H Dini a feminist writer? Wikipedia describes her as one but Mirta Kartohadiprodjo, CEO of Femina, Gadis and Ayahbunda Indonesia’s foremost national women’s magazines and director Widarti Djajadisastra disagree, “Oh no,...
Collectormania the world over! From the Habsburgs to Indonesian collector Boedi Mranata
IO - The Habsburg Palace in Vienna which houses the Weltmuseum Wien or World Museum Vienna has a room called “Collectors’ Madness” which was inspired by Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand II who described his...
Collector Budi Mranata sponsors the Indonesia room at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna
IO - On the 25th of October 2017 the Fascinating Indonesia Room was launched at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna in its Weltmuseum or World Museum. Th creation and establishment of the Room was...
Visiting the National Museum
IO - Many of us have spent our childhood going to the Museum either during school trips or with our parents. Going to the Museum is like time travel taking you back in time....
Happy Salma presents Amir Hamzah, Indonesia’s noblest poet
My heart embraces the mountain
To what avail, the hand cannot reach it…
(from Amir Hamzah’s poem Buah Rindu 2)
IO - Amir Hamzah’s life and death is one of the great romantic tragedies of Indonesian...
Have dog will travel: Irma Lengkong’s peregrinations with Bobo Gajahmada.
IO - On the 25th of January 2019 Afterhours Books held the book launch of a de luxe edition of Irma Lengkong’s globetrotting adventures across Europe with her basset hound, Bobo Gajahmada and an...
Anak Agung Made Djelantik: Balinese prince, physician, cultural savant and humanist
IO - “Dr Djelantik was part of that golden generation of Balinese well-educated by the West who helped prepare Bali for the modern world and globalization. They were all concerned with the preservation of...
A new Indonesian maritime museum in Jakarta
The port authority PT Pelindo II has created a new maritime museum in Tanjung Priok Harbor to help disseminate more information about Indonesia’s maritime past and development. The new museum is well worth a...
A debt of honor
IO - “At the end of last November, we finished restoring our adat (traditional or customary) houses at Kewar. The money was not from the government. We found it ourselves,” declared the Loro of...
Indonesia engineers a new cultural strategy as its base for all future development
A peoples’ welfare is incomplete if it consists of economic prosperity alone. Economic prosperity must be accompanied by cultural well-being. The two are interactive.
IO - Indonesia is one of the few countries in the...
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