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ISSUE NO. 226 | 21 NOVEMBER – 4 DECEMBER 2018

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Events

It seems there is growing interest in live entertainment in Indonesia. So far in 2018 there have been many large shows and concerts, among them Celine Dion, Mamma Mia the Musical, Guns & Roses and many more.

For Guns & Roses, 40,000 people descended on the Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta making it one of the largest shows Indonesia has ever seen. In January 2019 world famous Australian stand-up comedian Jim Jefferies will perform in Jakarta and Bali for the first time. Let’s hope this is the beginning of a new era in live entertainment for Indonesia and that soon we will all be able to enjoy a wide range of entertainment options every weekend in the same way as people in Singapore and many other Southeast Asian nations. It is good for the economy, it is good for tourism and it is a great way to enhance the reputation of Indonesia overseas. Indonesia Expat will certainly do everything it can to support and encourage growth in the live entertainment industry in this country. If you are the organiser of an event that you would like listed on our events page free of charge, please let us know.

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SPORTS Difference of Ability

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SCAMS IN THE CITY Blessing Scammers Busted in Bali

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PHOTOGRAPHY Borobudur: Under the Full Moon

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ART AND CULTURE Unique Artworks in Cirebon: Through a Glass Brightly

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TRAVEL NOTES Revisiting Pangandaran

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SPORTS Fun and Friendship On and Off the Pitch – JIFL

As we present our Arts and Entertainment issue, it would be wrong of us to let it pass without mentioning the loss of the genius who created some of the best known superheroes of our time. The great Stan Lee passed away on November 12 at the age of 95. He was best known for creating Spider-Man, The X-Men, Iron Man, The Hulk and many others. RIP Stan.

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SNA MEDIA CLUB COLUMN Explore Santorini

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FOOD AND DRINK In Praise of Pedestrian Tastes

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WHEN A WORK PERMIT IS NOT NEEDED: KNOW THE LATEST EMPLOYMENT REGULATION

The implementation of the latest Presidential Regulation (No. 20/2018) concerning Foreign Workers introduced several simplifications to boost the ease of investment and attract more international investors. However, the regulation, generally considered beneficial to companies that want to employ a foreign worker, added uncertainty to an already complicated system.

The simplified process has frequently been generalised and presented, excluding important exemptions.

This article discusses the new regulation in its complex form and makes it clear when a work permit in Indonesia is — and is not — needed.

FOREIGN WORKERS RATIO The number of employed foreigners is frequently considered proportional to a number of locals working in the company.

However, the precise ratio has not been legally stipulated, and approval of your RPTKA remains dependent upon consideration of officers.

FOREIGN WORKERS

KNOW THE MAJOR CHANGES Previously, companies employing a foreign worker had to apply for an Expatriate Placement Plan (RPTKA) prior to a work permit (IMTA) application for any position.

Effective from November 2018, a work permit (IMTA) is now combined with a TELEX visa in the form of so-called “Notification”, and its validity is the same as the employment agreement. Even though a valid RPTKA should be considered as a legitimate work permit, it is recommended to delay the employment until a company obtains a Notification from the Ministry of Manpower (MoM).

Importantly, several groups of foreign workers have been excluded from the need to obtain a work permit in any of its forms.

This applies to: • government institutions • representatives of foreign countries • international bodies The foreigners mentioned above are also exempted from RPTKA and paying compensation funds. This regulation, however, applies per case basis as it is related to respective ministries.

Noticeably, it is a frequent misconception that directors and commissioners who are shareholders do not need to obtain a work permit. This regulation has not been implemented yet, and these positions are not subject to any exemptions with regards to a work permit.

UPDATED REQUIREMENTS FOR EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN WORKERS With the new regulation, several other requirements and changes came into effect. The following points summarise the main conditions both employers and foreign employees should be aware of.

EMPLOYERS IN INDONESIA

ELIGIBILITY OF LEGAL ENTITIES Investors who intend to hire a foreign employee are limited by a form of their legal entity as well as the size of their paid-up capital.

While foreign-owned companies of any size are eligible to apply for related documents and employ a foreigner, only medium and large-sized local companies, taking investment capital as a measure, are able to do so.

WORK PERMIT VALIDITY AND EXTENSION To prevent a rising unemployment rate in the country, requirements apply to foreigners hired by an Indonesia-based company.

• Education Education qualification should be relevant to the job entitled.

• Competency Certificate A competency certificate, as well as work experience (at least five years) in the field, is required.

• Age limit A minimum age limit of 25 and a maximum of 55 is subject to modifications based on industries companies are involved in.

• Insurance During the period of their employment, foreigners need to prove their valid health or life insurance.

WORK PERMIT APPLICATION PROCESS The application for a work permit has been simplified and shortened under the new presidential regulation. With the assistance of a consulting agency in Indonesia, the processing time is now estimated to take around six weeks. The following steps present the key procedures and documents for the application.

• Expatriate Placement Plan (RPTKA) An employer is required to apply for an RPTKA for any foreign worker.

• Notification A notification combines a pre-IMTA and Telex visa serving as a confirmation from the Ministry of Manpower to employ a foreign worker.

• Development Fund Payment A monthly government fee of US$100 (known as DKP-TKA) must be paid to the Ministry of Manpower no longer than 24 hours after obtaining the Notification.

• Limited Stay Visa (VITAS) and Stay Permit (ITAS) Collection Foreigners should collect their VITAS at the Indonesian Embassy abroad and then convert their VITAS to an ITAS at one of the selected airports in Indonesia.

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The new regulation makes it possible for a work permit to be valid for as long as the employee is under the employment, but for no more than one year.

In case an ITAS is valid for at least seven months, it is extendable by making payment to the Ministry of Manpower before the Notification expires.

SANCTION FOR WORKERS WITHOUT A WORK PERMIT Indonesia’s strict employment policies have been known worldwide especially due to frequent deportations of illegal foreign workers. As a rule of thumb, businesses in Indonesia should never try to test the Immigration Law and employ a worker without the required documents. Whatever an employee’s position is, employers risk serious fines and legal punishment if their staff do not hold work permits.

DEPORTATION OF FOREIGN WORKERS Foreign workers in Indonesia are deported for several reasons, with most of the pitfalls occurring in terms of failing to obtain a proper visa. Importantly, an ITAS is a stay permit that enables foreigners to stay in the country during the period of their employment but does not function as a work permit itself.

Other times, foreigners, as well as their Indonesian employers, encounter severe issues due to the issuance of a work stay permit in a city different from the actual workplace, which makes their work stay permit invalid.

CONSULT A PROFESSIONAL Even though the recent update of an employment regulation should have made things easier for foreign companies and their employees, there remains a number of unclear policies.

For first-hand and more detailed updates regarding work and stay permit applications, talk to a reliable business consultant. Contact us at www.cekindo.com/cekindoVisa

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SPORTS

Difference of Ability

BY RADHEKA KUMARI

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n a year when Jakarta prepared for competition, it instead found collaboration, inclusivity and unity. As hosts of the Asian and Para Asian Games the city was geared up for sporting gold. However, it ended up being rewarded by much more. It was a year of firsts for the city, championed by the disabled community who, through showcasing a spectrum of talents and inviting us into their worlds, have opened Jakarta’s mind and introduced the city to a whole new trophy chest of ideas.

The Asian Para Games was a prodigious event for exposure and education. It was the first time in Indonesia that millions and millions of people were engaged in stories of disability. Daily, driving around the city, you could see images of disability that were also depicting strength; a woman in her wheelchair holds up a bridge, and a three foot tennis ball is being hit into an overpass by a Paralympic tennis player. The stadiums were stacked with supporters and millions watched the broadcasted events.

It was interesting to see the hashtag, “parainspirasi” being plastered across social media, attached to images of sporting champions. Uploaded by excited fans, it often offended members of the community who felt it was patronising and belittling of the sportsmen. It is common in discussions of disability, that a social model of thinking isn’t fully adopted.

That rather than an equal and normalised view of disabled sportspeople, it is a glorified one. However, a change in attitude takes time and these events and the debates that they ignite are all necessary steps at the beginning of that journey.

Running in tandem with the Paralympic Games was an arts festival, the first of its kind in Indonesia. Festival Bebas Batas, a collaboration between the National Gallery of Indonesia, the Ministry of Education and Culture, Art Brut Collective, and the British Council, was a celebration of all forms of art with the intention to showcase a freedom from boundaries. The festival, which primarily took place at the National Gallery, exhibited over 50 artists, linking Indonesia and the UK through film, photography, dance, visual arts, debate and activism.

The opening night presented a spectacular display of collaborative dance performances. BalletID opened the show with a company of Indonesian dancers. They combined traditional dance with contemporary styles and narrated their experiences of invisibility. However, the dance intensified and the message became stronger. Finishing

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“The term “disabled” becomes entirely redundant as we watch champions win their races, as we become moved by the motions of a dancer with his crutch, and as we admire walls of paintings created without the use of a single hand. Any need for a “dis” to prefix ability is dismantled and instead we are exposed to a totally unique interpretation of capability.”

with a moment where a woman was carried on the shoulders of a man who danced with the support of a crutch like sons carry a hearse, its symbolism seemingly mimicking the idea of sending any perception of inability to its grave. The closing act, performed by two dancers from CanDoCo, was choreographed by Arlene Philips, previously a judge on Strictly Come Dancing. It portrayed the story of a couple in the throes of passion. The movement was skilful and exact, yet fluid and evocative and transported the audience away from focusing on who the dancers were and enveloped them in the feeling of what they were creating.

Amongst the visual art, there were two installations which explored identity and introspection, one through the medium of video and the other with photography. The range of represented disabilities, physical and mental, offered perspective into how we are all imperfect in some way, that we are all different from one another and, that, oddly, makes us all the same. Hanna Madness, a champion of the festival, exhibited her video project, In Chains with artist, the Vacuum Cleaner. They exposed the darker realities of what it may mean to be disabled in Indonesia.

There were many musical performances during the festival, a highlight being the outdoor club nights curated by Deaf Rave from the UK and Dipha Barus from Indonesia. These transformed audiences’ ideas of what a “night out” could mean. Loud bassy music was felt and heard, whilst hip-

hop lyrics were signed on stage. Senses which normally get forgotten in your average club were engaged and the experience, therefore, heightened. One member of Deaf Rave spoke with Adam Pushkin, British Council Indonesia’s Director of Arts and illuminated the advantage of being deaf in a club. We’ve all experienced trying to ask someone a question on the dance floor, screaming directly at them and they still can’t understand you. With sign language, your communication can be smoothly included into your dance moves with no fear that your surroundings are going to interrupt your flow. It was these alternate advantages and new angles that Bebas Batas was really about for Adam Pushkin. The performances really emphasised the idea that “by ignoring people whose bodies are different, we are cutting ourselves off from an opportunity for the greatest diversity in ability and creative possibility.”

One of the most poignant parts of Festival Bebas Batas was an event that wasn’t actually a performance of any kind; it was a Zombie Walk on Jalan Sudirman car free day. Led by the festival organisers and the British Council, performers and supporters of all abilities disguised themselves as zombies and walked united through Jakarta. It was a powerful point that was being made through a very obvious parody, an idea that was developed by members of the disabled community themselves. A zombie: someone who isn’t wholly human, a person who is without life. Disabled people are often made to feel as though this is how they are commonly viewed and this walk was a direct objection to that, a reclaiming of this perception to exhibit how very wrong it is. With this message emblazoned into our minds, watching, for the first ever time in Indonesia, disabled models walk the runway at the Sean Sheila x Teatum Jones fashion show offered an apt parallel. On Sunday people walked the highway to make their point and seven days later, (dis)abled models walked the runway to affirm it.

What these events and exhibitions have showcased more than anything, is the paradox that exists within our own definition of disability. The term “disabled” becomes entirely redundant as we watch champions win their races, as we become moved by the motions of a dancer with his crutch, and as we admire walls of paintings created without the use of a single hand. Any need for a “dis” to prefix ability is dismantled and instead we are exposed to a totally unique interpretation of capability. Yes, it is different but that is its strength. We, as a society, must begin to alter our outlook and let our perceptions be free of limits.

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SCAMS IN THE CITY

Kenneth Yeung is a Jakarta-based editor

Blessing Scammers Busted in Bali Yet again, professional scammers are being mislabelled as hypnotists.

BY KENNETH YEUNG

The scammers were identified as Chinese nationals Chen Chen Cong (38), Huang Ping Sui (37) and Chen Ali (33), and Indonesian women Dewi Ilmi Hidayati alias Vivi Rosdiana (38) from Purworejo, Central Java; Maratus Solikah alias Emma (39) from Banyuwangi, East Java; Muliyani (33) from Tanjung Pinang, Riau; and Tjhai Fen Kiat alias Say (27) from Banten.

On October 24, the gang booked into Segara Mandala Hotel in Jembrana district. The next morning, they visited a local market. At about 7am, Emma approached Sulastri (69), who owns a restaurant in Mendoyo on the Denpasar-Gilimanuk highway. Emma pretended to be looking for some Chinese medicine. Another member of the gang, Dewi, then came along and began talking about healing. The conversation moved to rituals, and the women warned Sulastri she must gather all of her valuables for a blessing or one of her children would die.

First, they drove Sulastri to her restaurant, where she took two gold bars, each weighing 1kg, as well as 2kg of gold jewellery. She also took her savings books for two bank accounts.

Next, the scammers drove her to a branch of Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), where she withdrew her savings of Rp200 million. Then they visited a Bank Central Asia (BCA) branch and she withdrew Rp450 million.

Sulastri handed over her cash and gold, which amounted to about Rp3 billion (US$200,000). She watched one of the gang neatly wrap the valuables in newspaper. A ritual was performed and she was given a package and told not to open it for a while. About 20 minutes later, she unwrapped the newspaper and was shocked to find some packets of Indomie-brand instant noodles and bags of Gulaku-brand sugar. Meanwhile, the gang drove to the coast and took a car ferry to East Java.

More upset than embarrassed, Sulastri reported the crime to Jembrana Regional Police. Thanks to a CCTV camera outside Sulastri’s restaurant, police were able to identify the gang’s car, a white Toyota Rush SUV, and its number plate.

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olice in Bali have arrested a gang of seven scammers, including three Chinese nationals, who tricked elderly ethnic Chinese women into handing over their valuables for a blessing to save their family members from evil spirits.

The blessing scam, also known as the ghost scam, has been taking place since at least the early 2000s. It started in China and Hong Kong and then spread to Chinatown districts in the US, England, Turkey, Australia and several Southeast Asian countries.

A typical gang of blessing scammers includes two or more women, who approach victims in public areas, such as markets, while men pose as mystical healers capable of exorcising spirits.

Elderly women of Chinese descent are targeted for several reasons. First, they probably speak Chinese, making them willing to trust strangers who approach speaking their own language. Second, they are likely to keep valuables at home, rather than in a bank. Third, they tend to believe that ceremonial rituals and blessings can remove negative energy or evil spirits.

Here’s how the scam works: A woman approaches a target and puts her at ease by speaking Chinese. She steers the conversation towards family, health and healing. Then she says one of the target’s family members is being attacked by spirits and will die unless a ritual is undertaken.

Another woman in the gang “overhears” the conversation and claims that she or someone she knows was cured by a Chinese healer. A third woman comes along and offers to take the target to a healer.

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“Here’s how the scam works: A woman approaches a target and puts her at ease by speaking Chinese. She steers the conversation towards family, health and healing.

Then she says one of the target’s family members is being attacked by spirits and will die unless a ritual is undertaken.”

Upon being introduced to the healer, usually a man, the victim is informed she must assemble all of her cash and gold. The valuables are then wrapped up and blessed to stop bad energy or spirits from attacking the family member. The gang then hands back a worthless package, to be opened later to avoid interfering with the blessing, and makes off with the real valuables.

Victims are often too embarrassed to admit they have been conned, and in Indonesia, they may fear they have to pay police to investigate their case.

NOODLES AND SUGAR

The gang busted in Bali consisted of three Chinese men and four ethnic Chinese Indonesian women. Police said the group had operated for about one year, scamming old women in Jembrana district and Denpasar city, as well as in Banyuwangi, East Java, and Tasikmalaya, West Java.

A few days later, police sent a team to Sidoarjo, East Java, where the vehicle was registered. They tracked down the owner, who said the car was being used by his younger sister, Emma, who lived in Banyuwangi. Police followed the trail and were informed Emma had on October 27 returned to Bali.

Officers then traced Emma to a villa at Taman Ujung in Karangasem district. She and the rest of the gang were arrested there at 4am on October 29. Police confiscated evidence including two Toyota SUVs, gold jewellery and piles of cash.

Police said the scammers were “first class hypnotists” because their victims “were completely helpless when told to withdraw cash”. They further said one of the cars used by the gang was equipped with a mechanism that automatically switched number plates, even while the vehicle was being driven.

The scammers were taken to Jembrana Police headquarters.

Police said three of the women were wives or girlfriends of the Chinese men. After some of their scams, the Chinese men had transferred part of the proceeds to China and regularly returned there themselves to avoid overstaying their visas.

Chinese nationals arrested in Indonesia for fraud are often deported to face trial at home, but the trio nabbed in Jembrana could face a local court, even if they are part of an international syndicate. Police have informed the Chinese Consul General in Bali of their arrest.

Local media reports highlighted the gang’s expertise in hypnotism and even black magic. Of course, there’s no such thing as putting someone completely under your power by hypnosis. Instead, there is misdirection by persuasion. The media must stop telling people that hypnotism is real and should instead urge them to practice healthy scepticism.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

After being introduced to the couple, renowned Asian art expert Bruce Carpenter was initially puzzled by their motivation as countless photo books were already devoted to Borobudur. A project of this nature involved flying to and from Central Java during full moon periods, ignoring climatic conditions and their busy schedules elsewhere in the world. It would also involve heavy equipment and a large team of assistants subject to Indonesian bureaucracy. However, Carpenter, impressed by the peerless quality of their first images, soon wrote a long essay on the history of the monument to accompany the finished work.

UNDER THE FULL MOON

Borobudur

CAPTURED BY CAROLINE AND HUGHES DUBOIS

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and refined than normal photo images, revealing an intriguing plasticity due to the technique employed. It is obvious that the tall Belgian respects the personality of each object and its maker.

igh above the Parisian skyline in the traditional student quarter of Paris, the Dubois studio and apartment is flooded by light. Hughes Dubois exercises his special photographic skills, while Caroline Leloup-Dubois takes care of special projects and text conception.

Until recently the Dubois photographic production was restricted to studio work, but then he and his wife Caroline Leloup visited Borobudur temple in Central Java, built in the ninth century amidst two sacred rivers and four volcanoes. A sense of magical wonder slowly engulfed the pair during their first visit.

Belgian Hughes Dubois has 40 years of experience discovering and appreciating extraordinary tribal artefacts and works of art. This son of a Belgian industrialist was always fascinated by how light changes imagery, ever since he began to take drawing lessons as a child.

Dubois worked as art director in advertising both in Brussels and Paris. He was rapidly attracted to the best of tribal art after a chance encounter. As an art director he met gifted photographers who inspired him to manipulate cameras himself. While working for photographer Roger Asselberghe in 1977, collectors Francois Neyt and Jacques Blankaert brought a Hemba statue from Zaire, Africa. The statue provoked a shiver of recognition due to its unbelievable strength of expression. Dubois envisaged making large prints of such objects using a plate camera in a studio. His passion and thirst for more information about these extraordinary artefacts was born.

It was only after working together with Emile Deletaille that Dubois learned to concentrate on the actual object, and not only on the technical aspects of photography. This involved sculpting the object with light directed from several sources. Dubois cooperated with Deletaille on recording Precolumbian Arts together with collectors Berjonneau and Sonnery. They brought out a book entitled Rediscovered Masterpieces from Mesoamerica, followed by another huge volume on Undiscovered Masterpieces of Black Africa. Many more publications followed.

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Technically speaking, Dubois changed his method of photographing the tribal pieces. He stopped moving around the stationary objects with a camera. Now he emphasises studio work placing each object on a revolving platform, using a large digital plate camera and special lights to reveal important details. He works together with a computer expert who operates the specialised computer connected to the digital camera; together they seek multiple views of the object and adjust the colours.

“I regard the object almost like a piece of music which I interpret using light,” he explained. This technique lends that extra sculptural effect to the tribal artefacts and also reveals the skill village artisans employed to create instruments for their ceremonies.

After tribal art from Africa, pieces from Asia, Oceania and the Americas followed.

The colours of the images appear more sober

It was indeed an almost mystical intuition that prompted them to undertake the journey to investigate one of the world’s most impressive Buddhist monuments.

Their first visit took place on a moonlit night when they simply walked around the many terraces leading upwards, fascinated by the intricate details of the sculptured bas-reliefs and the free-standing Buddha statues on the top levels. The ethereal light added to the mysterious unfolding of their first trek. It slowly dawned on them that these sculptures were the forerunners of photography: a stone book revealing the Javanese people’s search for enlightenment was manifest here in the three-dimensional stone monument resting on a mandala base.

They did not leave matters merely to chance as their idea began to germinate; they visited Guimet Asian Art Museum in Paris to consult documents about the Buddhist statues and pertinent literature. The director of Guimet, Sophie Makariou, guided them during research with additional help from Patrick Carré, eminent expert on Tibetan Buddhism.

Later the project benefited from the auspices of the UNESCO World Heritage Programme and Indonesian Government support. At Guimet they first chose about 60 panels which they judged to be of pivotal importance, adding others as the project progressed.

The couple decided to utilise frontal views without any perspective while capturing the images of the bas-reliefs. This meant reproducing images in huge digital negatives, on a one to one scale, involving an enormous amount of pixels. The resultant images were then digitally stitched together to capture the flow of the sculpted panels.

The stone floors were uneven and the passages narrow so that optical movement was very restricted. Images were taken with a Linhof camera with an extremely wideangle lens specifically constructed for the task by Schneider Kreuznach. As the only available light would be moonlight, they resorted to light painting with pin-point lights to underline the curves of the reliefs and palette of colours ranging from black, white and grey interspersed by strange streaks left by repairs to the carvings, plus the wear and tear of centuries. The pair managed to take up to two images per night between sunset and sunrise, garnering the amount of 120 images spread over four years.

In reality there are a total of 2,672 exquisite reliefs stretching more than three kilometres. These illustrate a multiplicity of stories from Buddhist literature of the time framed in a historic Javanese setting. The sheer scale of the carvings made it necessary for the two photographers to reduce the amount of images captured under the moonlight to the most pertinent stages of Buddhist pilgrimage towards the ultimate truth. They could only work for about four nights around each full moon.

The Dubois realised that the monument was in fact a compendium of Javanese Buddhist history mirroring the customs, the differing social strata, vegetation of the time and other details such as the depiction of the boats used to travel as far as Madagascar.

The kings, queens and priests may have resembled Indians but the rest of the people were definitely Javanese with the costumes and jewellery of the time. A moving tribute to a civilisation long vanished, with tantalising hints of what must have existed during the flowering of knowledge and artistic splendour. The photographers hope that they have thus contributed to the memory of peace and beauty in Central Java before more damage is caused by the onslaught of tourism.

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ART AND CULTURE

UNIQUE ARTWORKS IN CIREBON

Through a Glass Brightly

BY DUNCAN GRAHAM

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ity the casual tourist seeking the offbeat attraction, the singular artefact, the exceptional craftwork.

In Bali – no problem. Signs pointing to studios, workshops and artist centres clutter the streetscape, though seldom deliver.

Time-pressed visitors rarely get to meet the originator; only staff whose sole contact with the artisan is through unpacking deliveries from her or his hills hideaway.

It’s different in Java – particularly in the villages and towns where the locals consider outsiders as curious pale-hued humans and not walking wallets. Don’t expect to find without much asking. In this zone Google isn’t helpful, as little has been recorded.

Cirebon, on the north coast of Java and about 220 kilometres east of Jakarta, is billed as a tourist town. This is a stretch of hyperbole, though it has some locations for selfies and a few magnets for historians.

These include the little Red Mosque of Panjunan (1480) which appears well maintained though built of timber; the people must have been smaller in that era as it’s stoop or suffer a cracked head.

It’s linked to Sunan Gunung Jati, one of the nine “Muslim saints” known as the Walisongo who are reputed to have brought Islam to the archipelago. They were Arabs, or descendants of Arabs; some may have arrived from India as traders and started proselytising.

after the 18th century French artist JeanBaptiste Glomy who pioneered the style.

More prosaically labelled “reverse glass painting” it probably came to the East Indies during the so-called “ethical” Dutch colonial period early last century; the skill almost disappeared after the Netherlanders went home.

In Europe it’s normally linked to religious motifs. Though some have been painted in Indonesia, including Arabic calligraphy, the subjects tend to be more whimsical. The paintings have a slight 3D effect and are well protected because the image is not on the front of the glass.

Dono’s prices range from Rp1 million (US$66) to ten times more for the larger pieces. He has exhibited in Surabaya and sold overseas; packers should work with care – the glass is only three millimetres thick.

He lives in a small kampung with no signage. His presence is known only to connoisseurs and members of the local art community, like Asep Syaefuddin, 35, just a few streets distant. Again, no signage, but his big wagons parked on the narrow road are splendid advertisements.

Working from a wheelchair – Dono suffered a spinal injury when a 12-year old playing in the schoolyard – he produces exquisite work taught by his late father, Rastika. He also learned the craft from other artists in the village. During his lifetime he’s believed to have produced 2,000 paintings and held 17 exhibitions. The polymath has also carved puppets and played in gamelan orchestras.

Asep’s artistry also has a French name, though now Anglicised – papier mache. The art of using paper and starch goes back to the ancient Egyptians creating death masks, though they worked with papyrus.

Asep’s specialty also includes masks – though these are huge and atop extraordinary colourful floats used in parades and special events. They also feature a few wayang characters. However, most are bizarre fearsome figures which would never hit the cutting-room floor in a low budget sci-fi movie set.

His son is also talented. “First I sketch my ideas on transparent paper,” he said.

“I favour wayang (characters from ancient stories usually told in puppet shows) which I used to watch with my father, and then start work on the glass.

Like Dono he pulls images hot from the furnace of his imagination stoked by an eclectic mix of Western fantasy and Javanese culture. A favourite figure is the burok, a bird with grotesque head; the word is also a generic term for the art.

Flying horses are another theme, along with the Singa Barong, an open-jawed well dentured dragon head. Scholars reckon its provenance lies in the ancient Chinese lion dance.

Like the reverse glass painting the art may have arrived in Cirebon early last century where it settled in Kalimaro village.

There are two kraton (Sultan’s palaces) Kasepuhan (1447), and Kacirebonan (1807) - and the Dutch wharf signal tower (1918), incongruous among the modern shipping.

Although made of teak, its ladders wouldn’t pass a safety audit, so it’s best viewed from outside.

These are the dead relics. The live crafters are elsewhere. Like in Gegesik, a 40-minute drive northwest of the city where Kusdono “Dono” Rastika, 36, maintains the ancient Verre Eglomise technique. This is named

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“I paint upside-down and back-to front.

I know how it will appear from the front through long experience. As I work, I add features that weren’t in the original sketch.

It takes about two weeks to finish and frame.”

Dono, a Muslim, has also painted Christ’s Last Supper, though this is more a copy of the much-imitated Leonardo da Vinci mural in Milan, rather than a Javanese take on the Biblical story.

Prices for a custom-made carriage start at Rp8 million (US $540) and come with four wheels salvaged from discarded rubbish carts. The over-the-top designs are brightly coloured and well varnished to protect against rain. For those seeking a one-off use, Asep will rent a wagon for Rp700,000 (US $46) a day. Burok are hired for ceremonies like circumcision processions and fastbreaking. They’d also be fine for a fun wedding, provided ceremony and reception venues are not too distant. Asep’s burok can carry people, but plump Westerners might want to check the suspension – and any mythology surrounding the beast, just to ensure its use is propitious. Riding a creature famous for devouring maidens might not lead to future marital harmony.

Photographs by Erlinawati Graham

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TRAVEL NOTES

Pramod Kanakath is an expat teaching in Indonesia.

He does part-time travel writing and photography.

Visit his website: www.premtravels.me

Revisiting Pangandaran

BY PRAMOD KANAKATH

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n my third visit to the still rustic-yet-a-bit-touristy Pangandaran I was able to go spelunking in the national park near the West Beach. I checked into the Bamboo House near the Pangandaran Beach (two kilometres from the West Beach and close to the Bus Terminal) and met Kurniasih, the first person you will normally meet upon stepping into the inn’s courtyard. The hotel has a beach bar on the Pangandaran Beach and a café on the West Beach. Both are beautiful spots to spend the evening dining and drinking.

GREEN CANYON

Every visit to Pangandaran includes an itinerary that covers the Green Canyon river, though it lies an hour away from this small beach town. Green Canyon’s ownership is probably shared by both Pangandaran and Ciamis in the tourism industry. The river’s crystal-clear green water is inviting. Boats are always ready for the 15 to 20-minute journey which takes you to the cave shelter with boulders in its mouth. Boats are anchored there and you can swim the remaining part beyond the boulders in cold water. I remembered capturing the silhouette of a boatman at this point years ago. I ended up getting more pictures this time.

“The sun, the sand and the surf.

They are all there at Batukaras, giving Pangandaran a run for its money these days.”

BATUKARAS BEACH

BATUKARAS BEACH

The sun, the sand and the surf. They are all there at Batukaras, giving Pangandaran a run for its money these days. The ticketing official at the Bandung railway station even talked to me about Batukaras on my way here – “You are going to Pangandaran? I will suggest a better place, Batukaras. It has a better beach.” Doesn’t that statement speak volumes on the rivalry? However, my own observation says that Batukaras beach itself is not enough to attract large numbers of visitors. It still has to depend on the Green Canyon glory which is a 15-minute drive. At the same time, it is good to see some comfy hotels like Java Cove and the beachside restaurants here.

SPELUNKING NEAR THE WEST BEACH

There are at least five caves including a Japanese man-made one in the Pangandaran National Park. The tour guide takes you through all these for a mere US$15 to US$20 before dropping you at a white sand beach, north of the West Beach. You can see the West Beach from here. Every cave has its history and myths. The Kramat cave is probably the most attractive and the deepest. Out of the caves into fresh air, I sunbathed on the white sand beach before trekking to the secret beach on the other side. This trek involves walking on coral rocks, boulders and some sandy patches.

It takes you to a dead end where you can spot the hidden beach where few care to trudge simply because it involves

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some patient trekking. This whole area, the beach, the coral waters and the cliffs surrounding them look very prehistoric in appearance. Just two local fishermen and me. You need to get out of this area before 4pm as high tides inundate it after that.

IN THE VILLAGES

On my last day, I took a motorcycle ride along the 2004 tsunami-affected villages. Many villagers had lost their homes and relatives on that destructive day. However, the villagers have long since returned to their normal lifestyle, and agriculture is the main calling for the majority. While on the motorcycle I enjoyed the stunning views of the greenery all around, provided by rice fields, banana trees and other plants. The farmers’ houses are hidden in these sylvan surroundings. I visited one of them to have a chat with the locals. The highlight of my visit was my encounter with an orphaned bat, being taken care of by a farmer and his family. It was left hanging from a bamboo pole in front of the house.

SPORTS

Fun and Friendship On and Off the Pitch – JIFL W

elcome Indonesia Expat readers. Something a little different for this month’s Jakarta International Football League (JIFL) article.

We are featuring two of JIFL’s member teams – thanks to Rafael and Adam for their info. Why these two? Good question – but to paraphrase the words of Sepp Blatter "There is no systematic corruption in the JIFL. That is nonsense…” So that’s cleared that up.

German Plus Jakarta – football’s ambassadors for more than 50 years.

When a group of German businessmen gathered in 1964 and formed the “First German Football Club Djakarta“, they had no idea that they were creating a true legacy.

Their ambition was to create a home far away from home – and this still is exactly what the club means to many of today's members. “Yeah, that brings it straight to the point,“ states Peter “Howie“ Hinsch, one of the team’s all-time legends. “Despite the German core, we have always been an international team. Besides Germans and also some Indonesians, our team currently consists of players from France, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Iran and others. That is the “Plus” in German Plus.” Over the past five decades more than 1,000 players have joined the team, and it has become a tradition for some German Plus fathers to bring their sons into the club – hence the legacy.

Of course, the team's long history is rich with interesting stories and hilarious anecdotes. The club's pitch at the German International School Jakarta in BSD has been home to some intense battles, both in friendly matches and the JIFL. But also, the trips to more remote parts of Indonesia often result in unforgettable experiences with sometimes thousands of spectators. Once, in Flores, an

audience of 15,000, expecting to see the German national squad, was somewhat surprised to witness a 4-0 victory for the Nusa Tenggara Timur regional champion over Jurgen Klinsmann and co. lookalikes!

And today? André Domnowsky, the current manager, seems optimistic: “Our recent JIFL results show space for improvement, I think the fact that German Plus plays in jerseys of the German national team seems to raise the motivation and ambition of opponents. On the other hand, we already managed to win an international six-a-side tournament in Bali earlier this year. We have some funny and talented guys in our team with great spirit – this is what matters. And we are always open to motivated new players.” In the interest of balance, we should now feature a peerless paragon of footballing purity but instead, we will talk about the (Mighty) Lions.

Origins remain a mystery, with some saying the Lions team was formed way back in the mists of time when Suharto was at the height of his power. Regardless of the official start date, Lions is a club that gets under your skin and into your blood. The Lions is the most welcoming of football clubs, accepting, well, anyone as long as they can kick a ball, and sometimes those that can’t, as long as they turn up (boots optional).”

Although the Lions would love their style of football to do the talking for them – a style is often equivalent to Stoke on a rainy March evening - instead they cement their position as the number one social team. Win, lose or draw, you will find them in the bar, where welcoming banter is extended to all. The Lions’ motto “making friends wherever we go” is testament to their nature. With all this banter, they are the Marmite of the JIFL – you either love them or hate them (but secretly everyone loves them!).

Driven by Adam Batten (Manager) and his trusty accomplices Cato Cook (Captain) and Dieter Werwath (Vice Captain), the team is cajoled into shape. The team sheet is often compiled a minute before kick-off depending on the players that have managed to drag themselves out of bed or a bar in time for kick-off. With Brian Brian at the helm of entertainment, Daniel McDonald chief of wheeling and dealing, John Harrington in charge of all “jokes” and Damien K.O. Barden ensuring all new players have gone through the initiation of a nutmeg, the team is complete.

The Lions team is a multi-cultural family, and is proud that, once people join, they find themselves coming back time and again, because invariably the Lions family is what makes Jakarta fun, both on and off the pitch.

See them on the pitch or in McGettigan’s Mega Kuningan, either way they’ll welcome you with a smile and a quip.

So there you have it; your editor asks for an objective retrospective of these two football and cultural icons and instead gets a barefaced bid for new recruits and claims of being the “most sociable team around“!

Andre and Adam can be reached via the JIFL website.

Come and join German Plus or Lions – or any of the thirteen teams in JIFL. As for The league standings, Japan still leads the pack with Nomads chasing close behind but still all to play for.

If you want to join a JIFL team you can start by contacting any of the JIFL Committee at www. jifleague.com, our via Facebook page. Or call Phil on 0815 1302 5166, Roberto on 0858 8182 0828 or Laurent on 0811 1975 662.

See you on the pitch!

THAN AND NOW.......THEN, THEY WERE IN BETTER SHAPE

GUESS THE COMMON THEME.........IT IS LIQUID

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Explore Santorini

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hink it’s time for you to unknot your stress tangles? Then, Santorini, an island in Greece, would be the perfect place to satisfy your thirst for relaxation! It is widely known for its architectural grandness and purity of its natural beauty. The sky is often seen displaying a harmonised combination of Persian, sapphire and Bleu De France blue shades. It would have seemed that the sky was conjoined with the equally crystal clear sea if it wasn’t for the volcanic rock below the water’s surface giving it's dark shades.

Vivid cerise and crimson Bougainvillea flowers seems to be pleasant bombs, exploding out from the window of an occasional house.

Even though Santorini might be rubbing off the vibe that it is a huge place that needs weeks on end to get the pleasure of a full experience of the island, believe it or not, a four-day trip is enough to experience the main highlights of the island.

You start the first day in Athens, the large capital city in Greece. Then, find your way to Santorini, whether by ferry or by flight.

Some people prefer the latter as it only takes 30-45 minutes, but the price is steeper.

People who ride the ferry get to admire the view and scenery but they would have to endure between five and eight hours of travel time.

When you arrive, take a vehicle, preferably a taxi, to Fira, the main town. Fira got its name from an alternative pronunciation of Thíra, an ancient name of the island. It is a city filled with white-washed houses built on the edge of a high caldera. Two

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quite popular museums of interest there are the Archaeological Museum of Thera – a museum that houses precious artifacts including Proto-Cycladic marble figurines of the third millennium BC – and the other is one that houses antiques that cover the island’s history, starting from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Cycladic I period; namely, The Museum of Prehistoric Thera. The town also has a number of churches, including the impressive Cathedral of Ypapanti and the well-known, much-photographed blue-domed church, the Three Bells of Fira. From Fira, you can get a panoramic view of the 11-milelong caldera from Southern Caoe Akrotiri to Northern Cape Ag. Nikolaos and the volcanic island, Nea Kameni, in the centre along with Thirassia Island. It is common for large cruise ships to be seen anchoring in the small harbour between Nea Kameni and Fira.

Access to Fira can be granted mainly by roads on its eastern side, climbing from its port through the Z-shaped footpath on foot or on donkeys, or riding a steep cable car from its lower terminal by the port.

There is also a bus and taxi station, along with banks and pharmacies, in the beautiful city’s central square, also known as Plateia Theotokopoulou.

After strolling around the town, you can end the day with watching the sunset. Yes, it is very crowded. Yes, you might not have the place all to yourself. However, the sunset is too beautiful to miss. The glowing ball of light slowly descending, at first seemingly to be a distinct colour contrast to the clear sky, but turning out to be perfectly harmonised

at the end – it’s one of nature’s beauties that is really worth sharing. Depending on one’s mood, it can be simply something to admire, something to share with a loved one or something to relax your soul. It is truly a moment worth your smile.

On the second day, take a local bus with the price range between 1.80 to 2.40 euro to Oia. Oia is a small village. It was also previously known as “Apano Meria”, meaning ‘upper side’, a name that is still locally known as “Pano Meria”, where its citizens are called Apanomerities. Ancient Greek Oia was one of the two harbours of ancient Thera and was previously located southeast of the island. This village prospered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Economic wise, it was visited by merchant fleet that plied their trade in the eastern Mediterranean, especially from Alexandria to Russia. It is here where you can find the famous blue domes of Santorini!

There are two impressively built mansions initially inhabited by sea captains in Oia. One of them is a two-storey Venetian Renaissance inspired 1864 mansion originally built on the caldera by the Sigouras Sarris family with a panoramic view previously only a sea captain could select, but in 2002, it was transformed to a private luxury hotel, namely “1864 The Sea Captain’s House & Spa”. The original characteristics that made these two houses stand out were maintained, resulting in the guests each feeling as if they were the captain of the house. The other one that can be found on the main village pathway was reconstructed in 1986 to a restaurant called

Indonesia Expat and Singapore National Academy are joining forces to provide insightful articles on Surabaya. The young student journalists in the SNA Media Club get to learn valuable writing techniques with the help of the editorial staff at Indonesia Expat.

“You will forever miss the beautiful Santorini sunsets, the beautiful whitewashed houses with blue window frames, the famous blue domes and the delicious Greek cuisine.”

“Oia 1800”. Although each house has its own unique traits that differentiates it from the other, they share a similarity in their distinct high vaulted ceilings, imported wood planked floors, exteriors of beautiful hand carved volcanic stone combined with marble, flat terraced rooftops on the arched roofs of the cave homes – and one important detail- they are all always in the best locations.

Pleased after a whole day of sight-seeing?

End it with a refreshing view of the sun setting! Mind you, it will be very crowded – a jumble of hustling and bustling of people, all wanting to be allowed the chance to witness the wonder of Oia's world famous sunset. It is advisable to come hours earlier so that you can book a comfortable spot from which to witness the sunset.

Remember to come equipped with water and snacks!

When it gets dark, proceed to dinner.

With 26 euros, you can satisfy yourself with Greek coffee, grilled fish and vegetables. If you feel particularly homesick, missing your loved ones, or simply the romantic fancy seizing you – with just 1.50 euros, you can purchase a postcard and send it at the local post office.

Got enough beauty sleep already? Well, it’s day three – time to go back to Fira! Not exactly in the centre of it, but more like on the outskirts. Although it might be a tad more costly than the places you previously stayed in during the trip, Altemar Suites can be booked through the booking site Agoda and is totally worth its cost. It is a spacious area consisting of a number of comfortable suites located just a few steps from Fira and in the lovely village, Firostefani. Each suite presents to you a private veranda with a jacuzzi and wonderful scenery of the sea. You would be in a state of pure relaxation, your suite’s premise being the perfect final touch to your overall quality holiday time. It displays traditional architectural intelligence of Santorini, but is also furnished with modern touches and amenities.

Wondering where you should go to eat dinner – to find a meal that would be the perfect missing piece to complete the overall wonderful time you just had? No problem – just go to the Salt and Pepper restaurant!

It is just eight miles away from famous recognisable landmarks, the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, Megaro Gyzi Museum, and the Archaeological Museum Fira. This restaurant serves seafood, Mediterranean and Greek dishes, and also

both vegan and gluten free meals. With just 25 euros, you can get an absolutely filling meal consisting of grilled calamari, vegetables and even a free dessert! No wonder, with such a great selection of food, comfortable environment and amazing host, it is often referred to as ‘a fantastic dining experience truly worth trying’.

The restaurant is highly recommended by TripAdvisor. Don't forget to catch the sunset in Fira and walk around the shops for some night shopping!

The next day, take a local bus for 1.80 euros and proceed to the truly unique Kamari Beach. Located ten km in Southeast Fira, the island’s capital, this beach shares quite a few traits of the scenery of Perissa.

Unlike other pearly white beaches, Kamari beach has a blanket of black sand on it while on its left side, there is a gigantic rock with the name Mesa Vouno that rose from the sea. This beach always attracts large groups of people like tourists – even at night – because of just how unique and attractive it is! At night, when the moonlight streams descend upon the land, the rock reflects the light, making an illusion of a glow. Not only that, Kamari beach is very organised and offers a full, wide range of facilities like umbrellas, sun beds and various types of water sports. Visitors can also take a nice stroll along the waterfront. Shops and convenient stores are available. There is also a diving centre, and as for food, you can get a wonderful dinner consisting of an appetizer of fava beans and nan, a main dish of sea bass, rice and vegetables, and two sodas – all just for 32 Euros!

After a whole day of chilling, relaxing, every adjective possible that defines your current state of euphoria and calm, end the day, just like the previous wonderful days with a lovely moment to enjoy the sunset.

On the last day, wake up earlier than usual. Well, for the past days you have been admiring the sunset – why not marvel at the wonder of the sun rising for a change? Might as well do it – it’s your last day here!

Purchase a few souvenirs for your family and friends if you like in nearby shops, and when you are done, take one full last look at the place that just gave you an unforgettable moment in your life- then board your plane and fly back home.

You will forever miss the beautiful Santorini sunsets, the beautiful whitewashed houses with blue window frames, the famous blue domes and the delicious Greek cuisine.

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FOOD AND DRINK

Daniel Pope is a part-time hedonist, residing mostly in Jakarta, where he still finds everything a bit of a rum do.

In Praise of Pedestrian Tastes Daniel Pope prods his proletarian fork at a few Indonesian favourites.

BY DANIEL POPE “Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard! While we're in the mood, cold jelly and custard!” So sang Oliver and his hungry chums in the musical version of Oliver Twist. An Indonesian version might go like this: “Food, glorious food! Hot bakso and sambal! While we're in the mood, cold fried eggs and, er, sambal!” While Indonesian cuisine is diverse, as you’d expect in an archipelago of 13,000 islands (including the Spice Islands), I’m going to limit today’s menu to just a few of my favourites. A word of caution: I’m English. Accordingly, gourmets might say I couldn’t be trusted to choose between a platter of finest Caspian caviar and a second bowl of gruel for Oliver.

MARTABAK First, I’ll derisively dismiss the sweet form of this pancake-like treat, called martabak manis, which is saturated with margarine and sugar, then fried until it’s like a large greasy crumpet, before being doused with condensed milk and chocolate. It’s grotesquely rich. Imagine an oil-drenched spongy slab of lead. Or a swamp in cake form. Vastly superior is the savoury variety, called martabak telor, where a soft, stretchy dough is folded around a stuffing (mutabbaq is the Arabic word for ‘folded’). This stuffing is typically egg and shallots. It’s then cut into squares, the number of which may neatly match the number of beers in a sixpack. Please, Sir, I want some more.

SATE KAMBING Order a lamb curry in Indonesia, and you’ll likely be served daging kambing, which is goat meat. But don’t be disappointed. Goat meat has a rich gamey flavour (a closer equivalent to lamb curry would be kid curry, which incidentally was the name of an outlaw in the 1970s Western TV series Alias Smith and Jones). When this meat is diced and placed on sticks to create sate kambing, it’s even better. This popular street food is served with a tasty peanut sauce and lontong, cubes of compressed rice.

Expect to get one lump of fat and another of gristle among the meat on each stick.

This is still a better ratio than the average Indonesian sausage. My friend’s gross party piece was to save his lumps of sate gristle till the end, then to slide them all on to a single empty stick, and shove the lot in his mouth. He was chewing it for the next thirty minutes.

BAKSO If there’s an opposite of an aphrodisiac, bakso is it. That’s because it resembles discounted testicles sold at Doctor Frankenstein’s body parts shop. Reputedly made from finely ground beef, few customers know what really goes into these forlorn, grey balls. Most would rather keep it that way. In 2012, some bakso manufacturers were found to be using pork as a cheap substitute for beef, whose price was spiralling. This outraged the country’s Muslim majority. Daging babi (pork) is on the Islamic list of “We Don’t Do That”, along with sipping wine and patting friendly dogs.

“Eating forbidden food like this affects your feelings deeply, perhaps it could stay with you for some time, that kind of feeling

that you have been guilty in terms of God,” declared one Imam. Indonesia’s halal certification agency protects the nation’s devout from the perils of the spiritually inedible. Minced snouts, ears, lips, guts and other unmentionables are all fine, provided they’re from halal livestock.

TEMPEH

BUBUR AYAM

Although not a meal by itself, this is a wonderfully versatile food. It can be steamed, marinated, curried or fried.

Beloved by vegetarians as a meat substitute, tempeh is made by a natural fermentation process that binds soybeans into cake form.

It’s good for you, and doesn’t cost much.

Indeed, it’s often labelled a cheap source of protein for the poor. Not unlike gruel, in fact. And what of its provenance? Tempeh is indisputably Indonesian, having originated in Java in the 12th century. It might as well emulate Javanese coffee by calling itself Javanese tempeh. There is no “ring of fire” about its taste unless sambal is added, but it has a unique flavour, like a nutty mushroom. When sliced and fried, its texture brings to mind one-dimensional wayang puppets, but it’s a lot easier to digest half-a-dozen slices of tempeh than any wayang show.

Indonesians don’t traditionally start the day with breakfast cereal, let alone bacon and eggs. Instead, a popular breakfast dish is rice porridge (pronounced bubur and spelled congee) with shredded chicken (ayam suwir). If you’ve spent the night working, praying or engaged in some other pleasant activity, bubur makes for a cheaper and healthier alternative than stumbling into a 24-hour McDonald’s at 4.30am for the final burgers and fries. From pushcarts to five-star hotel breakfast buffets, bubur ayam is a popular favourite among Indonesians from all walks of life. For some foreigners, it’s an acquired taste, but it’s definitely a taste worth acquiring.

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NASI GORENG “Nasi goreng? Fried rice? Seriously, c’mon! What a lazy Indonesian culinary cliché!” I hear the imperious Indonesiaphiles bleat with supercilious disdain. Yes, fried rice is popular; stop being so smug. The quality of this ubiquitous dish varies from place to place. It might be delicious at your local warung (food stall), or unappealingly bland at a railway canteen. It typically contains a small handful of diced vegetables and shrimps or bits of chicken or mystery meat. The grandly named nasi goreng spesial has a fried egg plonked on top. Intrepid eaters might want to opt for the fullon nasi goreng gila (crazy fried rice), which has every ingredient at the caterer’s disposal thrown in, especially chilli peppers. If your plate of nasi goreng isn’t served with at least one prawn cracker, you’ve been ripped off.

Send it back. My own introduction to nasi goreng had unpleasant consequences. I had been in Indonesia for just two weeks – my digestive system unaccustomed to the tropics – when I bought some from a passing street cart. I was sick for three days. For months afterwards, the smell of nasi goreng was traumatic. Fortunately, I can eat it again these days. I wouldn’t want to still be turning my nose up at the country’s unofficial national dish.

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TOP 10

Top 10 Non-Fiction Books on Indonesia

BY KENNETH YEUNG

THE INVISIBLE PALACE Jose Manuel Tesoro 2004

INDONESIA ETC.

Jose Manuel Tesoro (1971 – 2008) was the Jakarta correspondent for now-defunct Asiaweek magazine from 1997 to 2000. He then spent about three years writing The Invisible Palace, which reveals the iniquities of Indonesian law enforcement under the Suharto regime. The book tells the true story of events surrounding the murder of Udin, a journalist from Bantul regency in Yogyakarta, who exposed local government corruption that led all the way to Suharto.

Police refused to unmask the obvious mastermind of the killing; instead, they destroyed evidence and framed an innocent man. Unlike some writers who cannot resist putting their flawed or snide personal opinions into almost every paragraph, Tesoro writes with complete objectivity, letting his meticulously researched facts speak for themselves.

Elizabeth Pisani 2014

Easily the best book about Indonesia in recent years. Elizabeth Pisani, an American who lives in the UK, first visited Indonesia in 1983 as a 19-year-old backpacker. She returned in 1988 as a journalist for Reuters and left in 1991 over differences of opinion with the military. After retraining as an epidemiologist, specialising in HIV, she came back to Indonesia in 2001, working as an advisor to the Health Ministry and for development agencies. These experiences led to her excellent first book, The Wisdom of Whores (2008), which looks at where HIV programs went wrong. From late 2011 to 2013, she travelled around Indonesia to produce Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation. Tending to steer clear of Java, she provides a lively and insightful travelogue that explains much about Indonesia. It’s a joy to read.

THE OPEN CAGE Daniel Start 1997

In October 1995, Daniel Start (then 22), a recent graduate in natural sciences from Cambridge University, arrived in Jakarta to lead a team of European and Indonesian scientists on an expedition to Irian Jaya (as Papua was called back then).

Their aim was to gather biological data for a proposed national park. The team comprised five Indonesians, four Britons, one Dutchman and his pregnant German wife. In January 1996, they were abducted by the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM) and held hostage for 130 days. Two of the Indonesians and numerous Papuan civilians were killed during a controversial rescue operation, in which the Indonesian Army’s Special Forces (Kopassus) used a white helicopter that resembled those used by the Red Cross. British mercenaries were also involved. Start provides a riveting account of the hostages’ ordeal. He sympathises with the rebels and laments their situation, as well as Indonesia’s inherent failure to understand Papua. It’s one of the best books on Papua and well worth finding a copy.

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been intense speculation on what really happened behind the scenes. The official version is that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) attempted a coup; fortunately, General Suharto intervened and saved the nation. In the aftermath, anywhere from 500,000 to 1 million suspected PKI members and sympathisers were murdered by the military, Muslim militias and statesponsored killing squads. Some conspiracy theorists claimed Suharto masterminded

THE MUTE’S SOLILOQUY Pramoedya Ananta Toer 1999

In his final years, Pramoedya (1925 – 2006) felt slighted to have been overlooked for the Nobel Literature Prize. And rightly so. His famous Buru Quartet is a masterpiece of historical fiction. His own life was equally remarkable. He was jailed by the Dutch from 1947 to 1949 for his involvement in the Indonesian revolution. During the Sukarno era, he emerged as the nation’s best novelist, but was jailed from 1960 to 1961 after criticising the government for neglecting regions outside Java. Following the 1965 “coup attempt”, which resulted in Suharto taking power from Sukarno, Pramoedya was arrested and his books banned. He was jailed without trial from 1965 to 1979, mostly on remote Buru Island, where conditions were brutal. He was then placed under house arrest in Jakarta until 1992 and banned from travelling abroad until 1999. His few surviving essays, letters and journal entries from Buru form his moving memoir, Nyanyi Sunyi Seorang Bisu (The Mute’s Soliloquy), first published in Dutch in 1989, followed by an Indonesian edition (banned) in 1995, then an English translation in 1999. It’s an incredible record of intellectual stoicism and humility amid cruel oppression.

the events of October 1 in order to take power. Others blamed China or America.

Roosa, a history professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada, examines rival military factions and how foreign powers sought to manipulate them. He looks at key officials and issues in the PKI. He admits that “much remains unknown or uncertain”, but he has shed considerable light on a mystery that was long shrouded in the false narratives of state propaganda.

Kenneth Yeung is a Jakarta-based editor

INDONESIA DO-IT-YOURSELF Frank Palmos and Pat Price 1976

Dr Frank Palmos (centre) with East Java Governor H Soekarwo and Western Australian Trade Officer Martin Newbery at the thesis handover (Image taken from INDONESIA NOW with Duncan Graham: indonesianow.blogspot.com)

“Guide books… should be regarded a perishable good and not something lasting.

After many years they attain a certain historical value and sometimes it’s good to look back at the beauty of a now destroyed place, or the cheapness of a tour through Java in days past.” So wrote Australian journalist and historian Frank Palmos in the prescient introduction to his irreverent and insightful guidebook to Indonesia.

A NATION IN WAITING Adam Schwarz 1994

As soon as it was published, this was a must-have book in Indonesia, where it was banned. The title referred to growing impatience within Indonesia for an end to the authoritarian Suharto regime. We can thank Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for the book. American Adam Schwarz was working on Wall Street when in 1987 he received a fellowship to join a

STRANGER IN THE FOREST Eric Hansen 1988

Much of the action takes place on the Malaysian side of Borneo, but this fascinating travelogue has enough about Indonesia’s Kalimantan to merit its inclusion on this list. Eric Hansen was born in San Francisco and left the United States in 1971 to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War. In 1982, he spent about seven months walking across Borneo and back again, assisted by indigenous people.

With self-deprecating humour, Hansen tells incredible tales, from getting drunk with head-hunters to being attacked after being mistaken for a malevolent spirit. He also recounts his jungle diet, including monkeys, snakes and lizards. This book provides a glimpse of what life was like before the logging industry, oil palm plantations and modernity began transforming so much of the jungle and its inhabitants. An excellent companion book is Into the Heart of Borneo (1984) by Redmond O’Hanlon, recounting the tale of two Britons and their search for the Borneo rhinoceros.

NATHANIEL’S NUTMEG Giles Milton 2000

This book’s subtitle is: “Or The True and Incredible Adventure of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History.”

Nathaniel Courthope was an English adventurer, hired by the British East India Company to travel to the Spice Islands in 1616 and break the Dutch monopoly on nutmeg. The book is not his life story.

Rather, it recounts the battles between the Dutch and the British to gain control of the spice trade. In 1667, by which time Nathaniel was long dead, the British gave up their claims on the nutmeg-producing

It’s nearly impossible to find a copy these days. Lonely Planet’s Across Asia on the Cheap was first published in 1975 and spawned an empire of travel guidebooks.

Bill Dalton’s detailed Indonesia Handbook first appeared in 1977 and remains well known. But the most entertaining book in the category is Indonesia Do-It-Yourself.

Palmos and his then-wife Pat Price tell us exactly what Indonesia was like in the 1970s: the sex, drugs, gambling, politics, lousy accommodation and so much more.

A Jakarta hotel is described as “a moving garbage heap” but the review then states the owner claims to be “improving the place and offers discounts to those carrying this book.” With a bit of luck, this book will be republished as an Indonesian classic.

Malaysian newspaper called The Star. But Mahathir then shut down the newspaper, so Schwarz was sent to The Jakarta Post.

He started out editing the sports pages and was soon writing editorials on international business issues. He next worked as the Indonesia business correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, but was forced to leave in 1992 after writing an article on the political and business clout of Suharto’s children. This gave him time to write A Nation in Waiting. An updated version was published in 1999 with two additional chapters on the fall of Suharto and its aftermath. It’s an excellent history of the regime.

island of Run in exchange for the right to keep Manhattan, which they had seized from the Dutch. Author Giles Milton makes history easy reading. Here’s a passage describing life in Bantam (now Banten), the small port town on the western tip of Java: “Business could only be transacted after proffering large bribes to native officials, yet the bustling commercial life of Bantam continued to attract rival traders from all over the region and within its fly-blown alleys lived a melee of residents whose mutual animosities created endless troubles. Chinese, Indians, Christians and Muslims all lived within a stone's throw of each other and were equally loathed by the quarrelsome Javanese who only tolerated these foreigners because they depended upon their trade.” Thank goodness everything has changed.

SUKARNO, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS TOLD TO CINDY ADAMS 1965

Hardcore historians might sneer at Sukarno’s autobiography, which aims to present the founding president in an appealing light to Western audiences. This book was written by American journalist and gossip columnist, Cindy Adams. Her husband, comedian Joey Adams, was assigned by US President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as a cultural ambassador to Southeast Asia. His work took him to Jakarta’s State Palace, where he and Cindy met Sukarno. At that time, Cindy was in her early 30s and Sukarno, a notorious lecher, was struck by her beauty. He agreed to an interview and was impressed with her subsequent article. After returning to New York, she received a message from the American ambassador: Sukarno wanted her back in Indonesia to write his autobiography.

She spent several weeks interviewing him and listening to his life story. The resulting book, published when Sukarno lost his grip on power in 1965, is hugely entertaining.

His love of Indonesia shines through. So too do his vanity, humour and uninhibited candour. People seeking more academic histories of Indonesia could consider The Religion of Java (1960) by Clifford Geertz, The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia (1962) by Herbert Feith, and A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1200 (3rd edition, 2001) by M.C. Ricklefs.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Secret Sanctuary – Discover Amed Lodge by Sudamala Resorts BALI Sudamala Resorts, one of Indonesia’s fastest growing boutique resort companies, is setting an exciting hospitality standard in Amed, Bali, with the launch of its new lodge brand, Amed Lodge by Sudamala Resorts (formerly known as Pondok Laut Bungalows). Situated along the highly desirable Amed strip on Bali’s eastern coastline, approximately 95 kilometres from Ngurah Rai Bali International Airport, Amed Lodge offers a tropical sanctuary where the Balinese old world charm and serenity are still in abundance.

Built to incorporate an admirable collection of rustic timber wood, Amed Lodge has been thoughtfully designed to complement its natural surroundings. The seven eclectic cottages are all different and incorporate quirky designs.

Each room is fully air-conditioned for personal comfort and comes with a tropically-inspired bathroom. No two are alike.

The lodge also features a refreshing swimming pool and an intimate dining space, Suda Café, serving delightful coffee and international and local cuisines, as well as a relaxing beach deck. Exhilarating underwater activities are also provided by the lodge in cooperation with highlyexperienced dive operator.

Amed Lodge belongs to a picturesque part of the island that answers the longing for old Bali. With enchanting sunrise and sunset views to mark the passing hands of time, it caters to the needs of couples or individual travellers. As the perfect base for those seeking the vibrant underwater life or curious to discover an unseen side of Bali, Amed Lodge offers a getaway experience like no other.

Sudamala Resorts is a boutique Indonesian hospitality group that operates resorts in Bali, Lombok and Flores.

This includes its flagship Sudamala Suites & Villas, Sanur and the recently opened Amed Lodge by Sudamala Resorts in Bali, and Sudamala Suites & Villas, Senggigi in Lombok.

Adding to its ever-expanding portfolio in the eastern part of the archipelago, Sudamala Resorts welcomes the stunning Sudamala Resort, Seraya on Seraya Kecil Island, Flores and the soon to be opened Sudamala Suites & Villas, Komodo in Labuan Bajo, Flores.

For more information, please visit: www.sudamalaresorts. com. For reservations, requests and further information, please contact +62 363 278 7651 (Amed Lodge) / + 62 361 288 555 (Sudamala Sanur / Sudamala Senggigi & Sudamala Seraya), or email reservations@sudamalaresorts.com.

The Ranch Celebration at The Sultan Hotel & Residence Jakarta JAKARTA Come and celebrate Christmas and New Year at The Sultan Hotel & Residence Jakarta where we have prepared delightful delicacies and fascinating entertainment for your enjoyment. Amuse your palate with the exclusive menu, specifically created by our team of chefs to add flair to this festive season. Entertain your children with an array of old-fashioned toys and games, and for those who are young at heart, a fun and thematic cowboy style Gala Dinner to tie up the year is available.

To avoid congestion in the city, stay in one of our guest rooms to ensure a splendid and relaxed celebration with family and loved ones at The Sultan Hotel & Residence Jakarta. Enjoy the Christmas feast, which will feature lavish choices of seafood on ice, Lamb Chop Provencal with Mint Gravy Sauce, Roasted Chicken Grand Mere with Caramelized Shallot, Singapore Chili Prawn, Paella Rice, Baked Italian Lasagna, Roasted US Prime Ribs, traditional Christmas desserts and other delicious dishes at Lagoon Cafe. The Christmas feast

is Rp450.000 nett per person on Christmas Eve, 24 December 2018.

On December 22 to 30, 2018 The Sultan Hotel & Residence Jakarta will offer a “Christmas Room Package”, starting at Rp942,000 ++ / room / night inclusive breakfast for two people. It also includes a ten percent discount for the New Year’s Eve Dinner, free late check out until 2.00pm or 4.00pm for Executive floor, Lanais, Suite and Residence (serviced apartment). The price for the two bedroom apartment is Rp2.2 million ++ / room / night and for the three bedroom apartment is Rp3 million ++ / room / night.

On December 31 2018, The Sultan Hotel & Residence Jakarta will also offer a “New Year’s Eve Package” for a splendid celebration in “The Ranch” theme. Starting from Rp1.55 million ++ / room / night (room only) and Rp 2.15 million ++ / room / night including New Year’s Eve dinner at Lagoon Garden accompanied by live music performance.

The Apurva Kempinski Bali Resort Launches “Place to Discover” Campaign BALI A breakthrough initiative to mark the debut of Bali’s most anticipated resort, set to open in the first quarter of 2019.

For Bali’s most anticipated opening of The Apurva Kempinski Bali, a bold “Place to Discover” campaign was unveiled today: a unique positioning of the resort to highlight its distinctive brand pillars and philosophy.

As a tribute to the richness of Indonesian cultural heritage, this ocean-front resort will open its doors in the first quarter of 2019, and the “Place to Discover” campaign is launched to mark the resort’s longawaited debut.

Embodying a fully integrated, multiplatform approach that is unprecedented in traditional hospitality advertising, the campaign is comprised of six short films in 10, 30 and 90 seconds. Rather than focusing on the facilities and services of the property, the movies depict a striking “Majestic OpenAir Theatre” – the evocative brand of the resort which revolves around Spectacular, Sensational, Curated and Serene themes.

The storyline features the Kempinski Brand Ambassador, Lady in Red, who reveals the stage at The Apurva Kempinski Bali by travelling through each of the brand pillars.

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social media channels – Facebook: www. facebook.com/kempinskibali, Instagram: @kempinskibali, Twitter: @kempinskibali.

It also runs with the hashtag: “#placetodiscover”. The movies will also be showcased in a Mandarin Chinese version to penetrate the high-affluent Chinese traveller market.

In conjunction with the campaign, The Apurva Kempinski Bali is pleased to announce that reservations are now open for February 1, 2019, and it will soon unveil its opening offer for Q1 2019.

Set amidst the dramatic cliffs and immaculate beaches of southern Bali, the hotel is a 15-minute drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport and features 475 well-appointed guest-rooms, iconic suites and exclusive villas, and seven eclectic dining venues. Facilities include an oceanfacing spa and fitness centre, a 60-metre swimming pool, a kids pool and a family club. For events, business meetings and weddings, The Apurva Kempinski Bali offers a 1,076 sq m pillar-free and oceanview grand ballroom, meeting rooms, The Apurva beachfront wedding chapels, and a 2,200 sq m ocean-front lawn for exceptional outdoor gatherings and events.

Hotel Bidakara Grand Pancoran Jakarta British School Jakarta Trusted Partner Creates a User-Friendly Mobile App Awards 2018

JAKARTA British School Jakarta gives special recognition to its partners as part of World Quality Day 2018 celebrations.

JAKARTA Information Technology (IT) in this digital era has been rapidly developing, especially for cellular phone technology. People nowadays only need one tool to do any kind of task, and that is the “Smartphone”. Many kinds of activities can be done through a smartphone, such as shopping, watching videos, ordering food, tickets, and many more.

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As a contemporary hotel that tends to exceed guests’ expectations, Hotel Bidakara Grand Pancoran Jakarta has utilised mobile app technology to simplify every transaction and communication with guests. This mobile app provides all information and images of the services and facilities available at the hotel. It also provides chat rooms that

are linked to the WhatsApp app for guests to communicate directly with customer service.

Through this mobile app, guests are allowed to book rooms, meeting rooms, or reserve a table at the restaurant. The design of this mobile app is simple and elegant, which make it user-friendly.

To get this app, open www. bidakarahoteljakarta.com on your smartphone, click the words “add to home screen”, and the mobile app will be installed to your home screen. This mobile app doesn’t take up a lot of memory, so it will not slow down the performance of your smartphone.

On Thursday, November 8, British School Jakarta (BSJ) hosted a special "Trusted Partner Awards" event at the BSJ’s World Theatre. This was the highlight of a 10-day World Quality Day #WQD18 #advocatingtrust social media campaign and other smaller events around campus.

The event celebrated vendors and agencies that had made valuable contributions to the success of the school in meeting or exceeding BSJ quality standards.

World Quality Day takes place every year on the second Thursday of November. It was established in 2008 by the Chartered Quality Institute based in London, England.

Each year there is a theme, and this year’s theme was “Quality – A question of Trust”.

Individuals and businesses from Jakarta and Tangerang Selatan were honoured for meeting BSJ’s standard on quality of works, problem resolution, response times and Operational Health and Safety. Business partnership ranged from transportation and catering to IT system and education.

Principal Butcher handed over a special

agency award to Bapak Agung Sugiarto SE, MSi - representative of KCD Suku Dinas Pendidikan & Kebudayaan (Education Office) the city of Tangerang Selatan, Banten.

The 2018 British School Jakarta Trusted Partners awards recipients are: 1. Government Partner: Dinas Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Tangerang Selatan, Banten 2. Campus Services: PT Big Bird Pusaka – Transportation services, PT Annapurna Indonesia – Catering services 3. Building & Facilities: PT Pilar Garba Inti –Mechanical construction consultation & services, PT Daikin Air-conditioning Indonesia – Air Conditioning services 4. Information Technology: PT Synetcom Lintas Buana – IT Equipment & support services, PT Revo Solusindo – IT Network Installation 5. Marketing & Design: PT Subur Mitra Grafistama – Digital media publishing and Printing services, PT Vanessa Jaya – Signage, and School & textbook printing services 6. Educational Supplies: PT Periplus Bookindo – Imported books supplier to BSJ’s libraries 7. Health & Safety: PT Asih Eka Abadi – Medical Services, RS Premier Bintaro Medical services 8. Corporate Services: Makarim & Taira Law Firm – Law Consultation & services 9. Financial Services: PT Marsh Indonesia, PT Bank OCBC NISP Tbk

FIND THE ENGLISH WORDS AND WIN TWO FREE COMEDY TICKETS! There are 20 ENGLISH WORDS hidden in this word puzzle.

The corresponding Indonesian words are listed below the puzzle for you to translate.

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Jakarta Business Networkers Every Thursday Make the right connections and grow your business over lunch. At Jakar ta Business Networkers (JBN) all attendees are encouraged to help others by exchanging referrals and introducing each other to target audiences. JBN is all about helping you grow. Promote your business, personal brand or portfolio each week to the rest of the attendees and explain to the group the type of referrals you would like to receive.

JBN professional networking sessions are every Thursday lunchtime at Central, South and West of Jakarta. RSVP: info@ jbnetworkers.com.

The Jakarta Bridge Club Every Tuesday and Friday The Jakarta Bridge Club invites expat communities throughout Jakarta to join a networking session on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9am to 12pm. Participants meet for pleasant and convivial moments where they can share and exchange information among expats at three to five tables.

The networking event takes place at Die Stube Restaurant on Jalan Kemang Raya. Visitors and partners are welcome to join.

For more information, please contact Ernah at +62818686999.

Fetival BWA Christmas Bazaar 30 November 2018 Mark your diaries for one of the shopping events of the year! It's a great opportunity to shop from a varied selection of products from over 150 vendors. Bags, jeweller y, beauty products, handicrafts, clothes, toys and

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so much more.... all under one roof. All this plus the amazing British Women's Association charity raffle and bake sale.

See you there. Contact bazaar@ bwajakar ta.org for more information.

The 2018 St. Andrew’s Ball 24 November 2018 This year’s St. Andrew’s Ball is special, as in 2018-19 they are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Society. The date of this black tie, formal dress event is November 24th 2018. Being centenary time for the Society, one of Jakarta’s best hotels with a Scottish affiliation has been chosen and a special effort is being made on the food and beverage, along with a selection of outstanding entertainment befitting of their 100th anniversary. In keeping with tradition, St. Andrew’s Society is pleased to welcome back the Perth Highland Pipeband, booked and confirmed. They also welcome the confirmed return of Bahookie, Scotland’s top Ceilidh band. In addition, there will be a really special celebrity entertainer from Scotland to add to the evening. For Ticket enquiries p l e ase c o nt a c t c hief t ain @ thejavastandrewsociety.com Comedy Mad About Comedy Presents: Joe Bromehead 23 November 2018 Joe Bromehead is an English ex cage fighting, ex fire-fighting funnyman who really packs a punch. Likeable, cheeky and

quick on his feet, he has been delighting audiences for nearly a decade as a professional comedian. An instant hit with the audience with a completely unique and hilarious opening which places the audience in the palm of his hand right from the start. A regular choice for Jongleurs he has performed around the UK at many comedy clubs including The Comedy Store and the The Glee clubs. He performed to a 100,000 strong crowd for the X factor Finalist charity concert. Joe has exploded onto the comedy circuit and won three competitions back-to-back including the prestigious "BEAT THE FROG" at the Frog and Bucket and the feared and revered "KING GONG" at the comedy store earning him a reputation with comedy promoters and a fast track ticket to the world of professional comedy.

Lectures Indonesian Heritage Society Evening Lectures by Kartika Jahja 4 December 2018 Records & Rebellions: Empowering Indonesia. Music is a great way to move communities and drive change in Indonesia.

Lots of Indonesian music is produced but little is exported and thus known abroad. Yet the influence of modern Indonesian musicians is great not only through their music and lyrics but also through the on-line communities they lead.

Kartika Jahja and other artistsac tivists will not onl y t alk about the meaning of modern Indonesian music in today’s society but also give a live performance.

Kartika is an independent singersongwriter with the band Tika and the Dissidents as well as an activist on the issue of gender and sexuality. Outside of music and activism, she is also a published writer, actress, and entrepreneur. In November 2016, she made the list of “BBC 100 Women” which is a list of the 100 most inspiring and influential women from around the globe.

Franz Ferdinand Live in Jakarta 30 November 2018 Franz Ferdinand is ready to rock Jakarta! Witness the cool performance of the Glasgowb a s e d in d i e ro c k b a n d o n 30 November at Glora Bung Karno’s Outdoor Tennis Stadium, Senayan, South Jakarta. Formed in 2002 by the lead vocals and guitar Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy on bass guitar, Nick McCarthy on rhythm guitar, keyboard and backing vocals and Paul Thomson on drum, percussion and backing vocals, the band soared up to chart success with their debut album “Take Me Out” two years after their establishment. This year’s concert will include the release of their latest album ‘Always Ascending’. In addition to performing in Jakarta, Franz Ferdinand will also perform for fans in Bali on 2 December at Potato Head Beach Club. Tickets available at www.franzferdinand. com

Calum Scot t Only Human Asian Tour 2 December 2018 For the first time ever, Calum Scott will head to Indonesia for his Only Human Asian Tour.

Be ready to sing together with him on 2nd December 2018 at Kartika Expo Center, Balai Kartini. Promoted by Full Color Entertainment! Get your tickets at https://id.bookmyshow.com Judas Priest Live in Concert 7 December 2018 Judas Priest Live in Concert at Ecopark Ancol Jakarta on 7 December 2018. Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in West Bromwich in

1969. The band have sold over 50 million copies of their albums to date. They are frequently ranked as one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Despite an innovative and pioneering body of work in the latter half of the 1970s, the band struggled with indifferent record production, repeated changes of drummer, and lack of major commercial success or attention until 1980, when they adopted a more simplified sound on the album British Steel, which helped shoot them to rock superstar status.

BALI Festivals

Ash Live In Bali 24 November 2018

L AMC Productions, in association with Hard Rock Cafe Bali, is excited to announce that Irish Alternative trio, ASH, will perform in Bali on Saturday, 24 Nov, 2018 at Hard Rock Cafe Bali. It’s worth considering here the Northern Irish trios journey to this point. Wheeler and Hamiltons friendship and musical adventures began in 1989, when the two 12-yearolds founded (unheralded) heavy metal titans Vietnam in their hometown of Downpatrick, County Down. Though the band ultimately fell apart as grunge re-arranged the face of rock music, the duo remained united, recruiting 16-year-old drummer Rick McMurray for their new vehicle, Ash, a classic power trio inspired by Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Pixies and local alt.rock heroes Lazer Gun Nun. Get your ticket on id.bookmyshow.com

Djakarta Warehouse Project DWPX 7 – 9 December 2018 The annual Djakarta Warehouse Project dance music festival, or this year called the DWPX to celebrate its tenth edition will be held at Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK) Cultural Park, Bali. They announced the phase of a show or lineup sprinkled by international musicians from all over the world.

A total of seven musicians were announced for the first phase of the DWPX lineup. The first name announced was singer The Weeknd, who will be performing for the first time in Indonesia.

Alesso, one of the biggest names in the world of dance music with more than 1.5 billion streams, was also announced to appear on DWPX. For more info visit www.djakartawarehouse.com

Jason Derulo 1 December 2018 Jason Derulo is an American singer, songwriter and dancer and he’s playing live at Finns VIP Beachclub on Saturday December 1. Since the start of his solo recording career in 2009, Derulo has sold over 30 million singles and has achieved eleven Platinum singles, including “Wiggle”, “Talk Dirty”, “In My Head”, and “Whatcha Say”. Don’t miss the show this Saturday evening. Gates open at 7pm.

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28 November 2018 sqm), furnished, starts from IDR 15 million/month Further inquiry contact Erwin, +628176041729 / +6282122005281 (WA).

appliances. Complete amenities provided: modern fitness center, large swimming pool, free reserved parking (one lot), 24/7 security.

Area : 79 m, tower : sky, bed room : 2 (master bed with TV, complete wardrobe set, dressoir table), bathroom : 1 (with bathtub), living : imported Italian leather sofa, TV, with a lot of storage cabinet, dining : dining table for 4, appliances : Hob, Hood, Fridge, Washing machine. Rent : US$1,800/month (tax excluded) minimum 1 year.

Sale: Rp4,100,000,000 (negotiate) Contact owner: +628568901990, WA only, for more details and viewing schedules.

For Rent Apt Close to Senayan Apt in a duplex style house. 70m2. 2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Living Room, Dining Room & Kitchen, Parking Space. Fully Furnished (Beds; Sofa; Sofa Bed; Hot & Cold Bottom Load Water Dispenser; Fridge; Stove; Washing Machine).

Only 100 million iDR/year; Excl. electricity, gas & cleaning service.

T his newly renovated apt is situated in a very strategic area: 5 min drive to Senayan and 15 min drive to SCBD. Pondok Indah & Kemang with toll entrances just close by to go the airport or other parts of Jakarta. Contact: Siska +62812994039 6 or fransiska. nadya@me.com

For rent Apartment in Kemang ground level for rent, Pet friendly, 160m2, furnished 2+1 bedroom, 2+1 bathroom, huge balcony with bbq, gym, pool, tennis, basketball, huge garden, jogging track, 24 hours security, luxurious. US$1,200/ month, +628111490400 (WA).

Apartment Branz BSD for Lease!

For those who currently looking for an apartment, interested to stay in BSD or planning to move from your old to a new apartment. Brand new apartment with great facilities and located in a primary location at Central Business District in BSD are now available for lease. Being across the AEON Mall, close to the Breeze, Giant BSD, neighbouring with ICE, Green Office Park also Digital Hub and having schools, universities and hospitals in the neighbourhood make Branz a perfect place to live. It really has easy access for business, fun and study. Offering variety of units from 1 to 3+1 bedrooms apartment, provide you options according to your need. Rental price offered as follows: - 1 Bedroom (43 sqm), furnished, starts from IDR 10 million/month - 2 Bedrooms (62 sqm), furnished, starts from IDR 12 million/month - 3+1 Bedrooms (86

Apartment Setiabudi (Kuningan) - Size 159m2 2 Bedrooms & 2 Bathrooms + 1 Study Room 1 Helper\'s Bedroom & Bathroom Ver y Well Maintained & Fully Furnished Strategically Located in Kuningan CBD US$1,200 Per Month - Flexible Payment Terms.

The Bellagio Residence Apt For Rent, 3BR, 2BT, Newly Furn, O n l y U S $ 1, 0 0 0 / m o n t . C a l l +6282237816776.

Jl. Dukuh Patra II/75, Kuningan, 2 storey, cozy home, 4 bedroom/4 bath, living room/family room/ study, garden, swimming pool, electricity 16,500VA. For info pls call or WA: +6285881418203.

For rent / sell , apartment Senopati Suites 1. Designed, 3rd floor , 167 M, 2+1 Bedroom, Private lift , Lux & SF please contact : +628151111 0100.

Cheap apartment rental by direct owner US$1,200/month (include service charge & 1 parking lot, min 1 year rental) - Hampton’s Park Pondok Indah, South Jakarta - size: 97 sqm, 2 Bedrooms + Study Room + Maid Room - Brand new fully furnished - Full facilities - walking distance to Starbuck, Hero, bless almond milk store, health food stores, Krispy kreme, JIS near by Pondok Indah hospital, Jakarta outer ring road toll, Cilandak, Ke m a n g a n d P o n d o k I n d a h .

Whatsapp +628999112502. For more listings, please check www. sewa-apartemen.net / www.jualapartemen.com / www.jakartaapartment.net

Cheap office rental by owner at Kota Kasablanka. Rp20,000,000/ month (including service charge).

Size 60 sqm, min 1 year rental.

Integrated with Kota Kasablanka mall and Casa Grande apartment, 5 minutes to Kuningan and Mega Kuningan, 10 minutes to Sudirman.

EightyEight@Kasablanka, Tower A, a 39 storey landmark tower, forms the iconic corner piece of the Kota Kasablanka Superblock, a modern 9.5 hectare lifestyle destination.

Its location is within close range of major business destinations around Rasuna Said and Mega Kuningan. Contact WhatsApp +628999112502 or check other listings on www.sewa-kantor.net / www.jualkantor.com

ROOM FOR RENT FOR E X P AT I N L U X U R Y KEMANG HOUSE. En suite bathroom, shared common areas with other single expats, garden, swimming pool. Shared b ill s , m a i d , g a rd e n e r.

Close to nightlife, shops etc. Rp6J per month, three months in advance, one month deposit. Email info@ bravo-one.com

E X PAT N E E D E D F O R HOUSE SHARE. Beautiful house in Kemang, kitchen, garden, swimming pool etc.

Near to all amenities and shops. One room with own bathroom Rp5 mill, one with shared bathroom Rp4 mill. Six months in adv, one month deposit. Whatsapp only +6282111943084.

FOR SALE I have Sonlight Used Curriculum for sale. We studied American History (recommended for ages 16-18 or grades 9-12) this past year and would like to sell these books and their guides.

Joy Hakim "A history of US" book 1-11 for rp 2,000,000 (or best offer.

American History and Literature readers, total 44 classic readers for rp 6,000,000 (or best offer).

American History student and parent guide and schedule for rp 975,000. Literature student and parent guide and schedule for rp 840,000. Story of the world vol. 3 and 4 by Susan Wise Bauer. Stats Modeling the world AP edition including AP test prep series, Activstats 2008 -2009 CD ( all brand new) for rp 4,000,000 (or best offer). If interested please whatsapp +6281283510064 for the list of books and pictures of the listing above.

For sale (pick up Senayan): Baby toy - ride on/push walker. Rp300,000 like new. Bookshelves - teak wood.

H: 229.5cm, D: 40, W: 113cm.

Deep shelves - would fit China set nicely. Lock doors on bottom with one shelf inside. Rp. 10 million or best offer. Contact: Jaclyn +6281286315106 or jaclynmcruz@ gmail.com

Oil paintings on canvas panels : 1.

“Autumn” 8x10” Rp 9.100.000 2.

“The Beach” 7x9” Rp 4.200.000 3. “The Field” 6x8” Rp 3.500.000 Signed, finger printed, unframed, n o h a n g e r. P l e a s e c o nt a c t : +6281268296689.

MNC Nirwana Bali Phil Mickleson Championship Golf Course. Golf Social Individual Membership for Sale. $25k before Top - Up. 35% Discount or 55% more for New Membership Price. Serious Enquiries E-mail kanthaka-bali@ hotmail.com

HOUSEHOLD STAFF Live In Maid required in South Jakarta , general maid duties, possibly help with meal preparation, Family with One Child (2) please contact +6281280188388.

I am looking for an experienced, recommended personal driver to drive me for work everyday. Home is in Cilandak (South Jakarta) and work is in Sunter (North Jakarta) or the airport. Hours are generally 7.30am to 7.30pm Monday to Friday and 1/2 a day on Sunday.

Will require some spoken English and ability to read a map. Will be required to also keep the car clean and maintained. There will be a lot of sitting around during the day whilst I work in the office. Live out.

If you know anyone or can recommend anyone, please let me know. Only drivers with solid references will be considered.

Please contact me on WhatsApp +628119319686.

After 3 years of loyal support to our family, our local staff is looking for employment due to our relocation.

Because of the absence of a successor (at the Embassy) they can start on the 1st of December 2018. All are live - out persons and searching work in the area Menteng, Kemang, Cipete (south Jakarta). For references you can contact Michael +62811886004 (also WhatsApp) CARING NANNY WILLING TO TAKE ON MORE RESPONSIBILITIES Ibu Elly is the loving, attentive nanny of our 16 month old son. She is a very warm and active person, great with singing and dancing, and always full of ideas for things to do with our energetic son. He loves her dearly and we know she cares for him the same weather we are there or not. Bu Elly speaks English well, and does housework on her own initiative. She is also good at cooking healthy baby food, and extremely helpful when we are going out for a day trip with our little one. We are sadly letting her go because of some changing of our family situation. She currently working in Shangri-la Residence, and willing to also work in Executive Menteng or central Jakarta. She will be available to start working as early as the end of October. You can reach out to Lulu at yuanx@ protonmail.com for more details or directly to Bu Elly (WhatsApp: +6281389203039) A safe, mature, punctual English speaking driver is available. Pak Maman is safe, mature, punctual driver with good command of English. During his work experience as a driver with multinational companies , he has been trained and examined for defensive driving on yearly basis .Also pak Maman has good knowledge of Jakarta roads ( specially south of Jakarta) which helps him to choose best option to avoid busy traffic. If you are interested to talk to pak Maman,you can contact him directly on +628119005999. If you need to ask any further details, you can send me email : katayoun_78@ yahoo.com

BANDUNG PROPERTY

Taman Sari Panoramic Apartment 19 t h fl o o r. T he a p ar tment is combination of 2 units put together Hoek position, one unit is 37,20 m2 , total is 74,4 + m2. 1 master bedroom. 2 regular bedrooms.

Price: Rp590 million. Please contact WA only: +6281290070037.

BALI JOBS AVAILABLE The Seven Holiday is looking for an "Online Sales Manager". We specialize in creating memorable honeymoons & holidays to Bali and Indonesia for overseas guests.

Main responsibility: to sell holiday and honeymoon products online to overseas clients. Requirements: • Experience in the sales area.

Preferably in travel. Experience in sales of Bali/Indonesia travel products is an advantage.

• To be result-oriented and clientoriented at the same time.

• You should live (or lived) in Bali, not less than 6 months from last 2 years.

• Fluent in English. Age: 20 - 40.

Conditions: • Probation 2 months: Fixed basic salary that depends on Interview.

• After probation: basic salary + high percentage from each sale.

If you are interested please do NOT send inbox Facebook message but send us your CV to: info@ thesevengroup.org English, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish or German speakers wanted! We are looking for people preferably with telemarketing experience but will consider people with other skills. This role can be done Part time or Full time and is for various campaigns. Must have a laptop and good internet connection.Full time money for part time work, of course you get out what you put in (earn up to £700++ per week). We look for people who can do minimum 20 hours per week. Please note this is a self employed role and is commission only. For more info please send me an email to luke@ uniquetelemarketingsolutions.com

LOOKING FOR WORK Enthusiastic graduating student is looking for a graduation internship.

I am Mila Supit, 26 years old and I’m in my graduation phase of the Communication course at Hanze University in Groningen, The Netherlands. For the period from February to June 2019 I am therefore looking for a challenging graduation project for 2 days a week. What am I looking for?

An interesting, instructive social media/ communication issue, in a nice working environment about; • Communication plan • An online (content) strategy Preferably in a Dutch organization.

Beside that, it would be very nice and welcome if I could continue to work after my internship.

What do I have to offer?

• A research and advice report that provides fresh insights.

Do you have a communication issue or do you want to know more about the possibilities? Then I would love to hear from you! I can be reached via milasupit@gmail.com

PROPERTY Beautiful Petitenget Retreat in Prime Central Seminyak location only 500m from Potato Head , W Hotel, KuDeTa and Ms Sippy .

Rates Inclusive of: • Housekeeper and Daily Cleaning service including fresh linen and towels • Pool Cleaner and Gardener • Night Security Guard • High Speed WIFI • T V Cable Package (Movies, sports etc) • Car Parking • Complimentary Drinking Water • 1 x Free Private Airport Transfer (Minimum stay 3 nights) November 2018 Daily Rate Special Offer - Only US$150. Daily Rates Low Season from US$209/ Rp2.8 million. Monthly rate - Low Season from US$ 3,20 0/ Rp45 million (excluding electricity). Direct owner - Booking & enquiries (WhatsApp): +6282147110434.

Beautiful 3 bedroom (sleeps 8) three bathroom plus extra toilet for pool area, sparkling pool, fully furnished, off street parking, has large gate to secure parking, laundr y, storag e cup b o ards, western kitchen, living area open plan but huge bi fold doors so can be closed off, excellent rental history, just pack your case and move in as all linen and kitchen equipment provided. Contact owner direct on +61437537307 (I have staff in Sanur who can show you through the property) 26 years left able to extend. $320,000 AUD.

Bali shop front for rent. Location at Jl. Pantai Berawa Raya, Canggu, Banjar Plambingan. 1 Floor shopfront : Unit A & B. 2 Storey Shopfront :Unit C & D. Price : Rp135,000,000/ unit ( A, B ), Rp190.000.000 /unit ( C ), Rp200.000.000/ unit ( D ). Min Rent : 2 years. Estimation completion : January 2019. Contact owner : +628568901990 / +62818110768.

LOMBOK PROPERTY Balinese Joglos available for monthly rental - retreat recently reconstructed to better withstand earthquakes - on-site 80m well with "straight from the tap\" drinkable water - modern western style bathroom with plenty of on demand hot water -queensize bed - shared kitchen with all utensils/ LPG/fridge/freezer - free Wi-Fi/ scooter parking/utilities. Phone Number: +6 2819 0726 8 374 / namaste@gypseayoga.com

YOGYAKARTA PROPERTY Due to the age and healthy reasons, we want to sell or take over a PMA Classic Furniture Company. LAND +- 4.000m2, in industrial zone of Magelang. Machineries most came from Europe, Germany, Belgium, Italy. Building facilitated with container loading. For further info, please contact : Anna +62 8112545610.

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My Back Hurts!!

Back pain is very common, usually it improves within a few weeks or months.

Pain in the lower back is very common, although it can be felt anywhere from the neck downwards.

Usually it is not caused by anything serious and the pain will get better over time.

Sometimes it can be due to a medical condition like: • A slipped or prolapsed disc.

• Sciatica – irritation of the nerve that runs to the feet You can experience numbness, weakness or a tingling sensation with these conditions.

How to relieve back pain • Stay as active as possible and try to continue your daily activities. This might sound strange but resting for long periods makes the pain worse.

• Try exercises and stretches for back pain, other activities such as walking, swimming and yoga may also be helpful • Take anti-inflammatory medication, like ibuprofen providing this is safe for you to take (talk to your GP!) • Use hot or cold compression packs for short-term relief • Be optimistic and realise that your pain should get better.

Contact your GP It might be a good idea to see your GP if: • The pain doesn't improve within a few weeks • The pain makes you stop doing your activities • The pain is very severe or gets worse • You're very concerned or when you are struggling to cope Your trusted medical practitioner will ask about your symptoms, examine your back, and discuss possible treatments. They may refer you to a specialist doctor or physiotherapy.

Possible causes of back pain It is often not possible to identify one cause for the back pain. Sometimes the pain can be a result of an injury such as a sprain or strain, but often there is no clear reason. Usually it is nothing serious.

How to prevent back pain These tips might help: • Do regular exercises and back stretches.

Ask your GP for advice.

• Stay active – exercises help to keep your back strong • Avoid sitting for too long • Take care when lifting • Check your posture when sitting, using computers and watching television • A good mattress on your bed • Lose weight

When to get immediate medical advice • Numbness around your genitals or buttocks • Difficulty to urinate • Loss of bladder or bowel control • A high temperature • Unexplained weight loss • A swelling or a deformity in your back • It started after a serious accident, such as after a car accident These things can indicate something more serious and need to be checked further urgently. Good Practice Clinic provides trusted medical practitioners who can help you. Try us. We have seen patients from over 60 different countries already.

Dr Steven Graaff,MD,MRCGP, the founder of Good Practice Clinic is a graduate of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before completing his formal training in General Practice in the UK, he worked in several hospitals, occupational health and general practice in the Netherlands and the UK. As a medical professional with international experience,Steven decided to start his own clinic – Good Practice, in Jakarta

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