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Better Late than Never! by Antony Sutton
It was January 2005. My girlfriend was looking at me with a steely resolve I knew meant trouble. Or even worse. Commitment. ‘When,’ she said. I’d been obfuscating for long enough, even I knew that with my thick skinned ,male insensitivity, no more could I make like a character out of Little Britain, a BBC sitcom, and say ‘yeah, but no but yeah but no but’ ad infinitum. ‘Next year,’ I tried to sound confident but really I was like a freshly caught fish in the bottom of a boat flapping wildly. ‘When next year?’ ‘June. At the latest,’ I stammered before adding as an afterthought ‘or maybe later.’ But she’d heard June and that was enough for her. I don’t think my afterthought, my Get Out Of Jail Free card would carry any weight, it was nothing more than one final attempt of my ego asserting itself before the onset of a middle age I had fought valiantly to delay if not avoid all together.
An early mixed marriage in 1845 between a Dutch KNIL soldier and a girl from Purworedjo.
Living abroad is like a Gymnastics class at school. A never ending parade of hoops to be jumped through. Indonesia seemed to have more than most for people who wanted to settle down and start a family.
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Food and Drinks (page 8-9) Sevenoaks, BSD City Jackrabbit: Inside the Rabbit Hole Personal Tech (page 10) Getting Deals in Jakarta Light Entertainment (page 12) Mistaken Identity
Art of the Indies (page 6) The Borobudur Syndrome
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Gallery (page 7) A Glimpse to the Past
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Cover Story
Better Late than Never! As we sat in the taxi heading for a night out I mentally counted some of them. Religious conversion, her parents, wedding ceremony, her parents, reception, her parents, babies, her parents, fiscal tax times two, KITAS and, of course, her parents. Having spent the best part of two decades living in this part of the world I wasn’t expecting anything to change any time soon. There were no votes in an Indonesian government seeking to make life easier for expats and anyway, there was enough to be getting on with. I was looking forward to having to change religion, take any children on visa runs and having to go through the rigmarole of applying to stay in the country every year just to take care of my new family. Hell, they were the least of my problems. Back then all I could see was a whole heap of expenses and paper work. Never, not in my wildest dreams, did I think any of it would be made easier. Things like that just didn’t happen in this part of the world. So imagine my delight when, in 2006, the government announced that any children born to mixed marriages would be able to have dual citizenship for the first 18 years of the life. Imagine that? No visa runs for babies?! But there was more to come. In April 2011 the Indonesian government passed a new immigration law that eased many a headache for those of us with families here. Under the law we would be entitled to permanent residency after a qualifying period, we would be able to work without a sponsor and we would not have to
keep reporting to various government departments on a tediously regular basis. While being dead chuffed at this, and the earlier Citizenship Law, the cynic in me had one question yelling repeatedly. Why? Had Madurese farmers suddenly felt that the status of expats with Indonesian partners was the most important obstacle hindering development? Had fishermen from Pelabuhan Ratu been furiously lobbying their local MP demanding a fairer ride for those in mixed nationality marriages? Had palm oil plantation workers been protesting over our fate and the politicians felt they had to do something to appease the fury across the country? Nia Schumacher has been involved in lobbying for the bill and she says it was very difficult to find exact numbers of mixed marriages in Indonesia. The best they could come up with was about 3,000 a year. But that didn’t include foreign women married to Indonesians. At first glance there seems no reason why the government should even consider such a bill. Because there is no one constituency or special interest group that seems to benefit. It just seems to be an eminently fair piece of legislation that is both sensible and humane. So why? To answer these questions and more I followed the tracks of a thousand prams one Saturday morning to a shopping mall in Blok M where some of the prime movers behind the passage of the new immigration law, the Tim Advokasi Perwakinan Campur (TAPC) which
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translates as the Mixed Marriage Advocacy Team, were holding a seminar to explain the new regulations. Despite ratifying a whole heap of United Nations conventions on gender equality and children’s’ rights Indonesia made life very difficult for mixed nationality marriages. Issues over inheritance, a child’s nationality and owning property meant that couples were never operating on a level playing field. With that in mind a group of women’s organizations got together and decided to form a united front with a simple aim in mind. Change the laws! So it was that in 2002 several women’s groups came together to form Aliansi Pelangi Antar Bangsa (APAB). Sally Wellesley has been with the team since its inception and she was surprised at how approachable the politicians were. ‘We just turned up at the parliament building, walked down corridors and knocked on doors,’ she recalls of the early days. That early lobbying eventually led to the Citizenship Law passed in 2006 ending the ignominious sight of babies queuing up for visa runs to Singapore every year. It wasn’t plain sailing of course. ‘When we first started presenting our case some of the politicians would look at us and make comments like ‘well, it’s your fault, you’re in a mixed marriage’ or ‘Indonesians not good enough for you,’ but we just kept coming back and coming back.’ Meetings would be cancelled. People would not turn up for meetings. Meetings would happen without any APAB members present.
Documents would be presented, documents would be lost. The team would almost have to have someone on call 24/7 to attend Commission deliberations and they soon learnt to have several copies of supporting evidence in case the representatives of the people had mislaid theirs. With the passage of the 2006 law it was time to turn their attention to the legal status of foreigners in mixed marriages. The experience learnt from the early days, they had learnt the game, was of course invaluable but there was more. They knew who was approachable, who was sympathetic to their cause. And by working so closely together with a number of politicians goodwill had built up on both sides and that was important considering many of the faces changed with the election of the second SBY government. More legwork but now there were more legs involved APAB joined forces with another group, Masyarakat Perkawinan Campuran Indonesia (PerCa) to create the TAPC, Sally explaining ‘that as we had similar goals for the Immigration Law and felt that a unified voice would be more effective.’ More committee meetings and more research went into the Immigration Bill and again Sally was impressed by some of the law makers she dealt with, describing them as ‘very switched on, on the ball. Some of them fully understood the issues, perhaps knowing people in similar situations.’ The law has of course now passed and those of us in mixed marriages can look forward to a future without having to go on unnecessary visa
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What happens if a mixed marriage couple, who have been married for more than 5 years and live abroad, want to return to live in Indonesia? The foreign spouse should enter Indonesia on a Visa Tinggal Terbatas (Temporary Stay Visa). Once in Indonesia, she/he can apply for Izin Tinggal Tetap (ITAP = Permanent Residence Permit, or PR). What happens if a mixed marriage couple have just got married abroad and want to live in Indonesia? The foreign spouse should enter Indonesia on a Visa Tinggal Terbatas. After getting an Entry Stamp (Tanda Masuk), they must apply to the local Immigration Office for Izin Tinggal Terbatas (ITAS = Temporary Residence Permit). The ITAS is valid for 2 years and can then be converted to ITAP. To get the ITAP, the foreign spouse must also sign a Declaration of Integration. Can a foreign spouse who has an ITAP due to being in a mixed marriage, work in Indonesia? Yes. What happens if the child of a mixed marriage, who has foreign citizenship and lives abroad, wants to live in Indonesia? She/he should enter Indonesia on a Visa Tinggal Terbatas. Once in Indonesia, they can immediately apply for an ITAP. What happens if the child of a mixed marriage, who lives in Indonesia, chooses her/his foreign citizenship upon reaching the age of 18? She/he can get an ITAP immediately.
runs or trips to our friendly local Immigration Office. Being able to stay indefinitely, being able to work without going through the whole painful approval process just makes life a little bit easier and even makes us feel that bit more accepted in our partner’s own country. The devil of course is in the detail. ‘The implementing regulations will not actually have been issued by the time this law is enacted – they will take some months to formulate (though by law, they have to be issued within one year of the law going into effect’ Sally said explaining the legal path that still lies ahead. Six and a half years on from when my then girlfriend told me we were getting married, two of the largest hoops have been removed from the field. And while we can enjoy the benefits of our kids having dual nationality, at least for the first 18 years of their life, and we can look forward to working with having to get work permits, Sally, Nia and their tireless team are eyeing their next target. Property ownership. It’s time for me to leave the seminar but my old cynicism will not go away. Is all this, the Citizenship and Immigration Laws, is it all part of a giving with one hand, taking with another? Is it all part of a cunning plan on the part of the Indonesian government to soften us up before introducing the oft talked about 500 million rupiah deposit to be paid by foreign men wishing to marry Indonesian women? Sally is emphatic. ‘That has never been discussed; no one has ever talked about it in all our meetings.’
The New Immigration Law
What happens in the case of the foreign spouse in a mixed marriage who has been married for more than 2 years and is living in Indonesia? She/he can get an ITAP immediately. What happens if the couple divorce? A mixed marriage ITAP will not be cancelled due to divorce if the couple has been married for 10 years or more. What happens if the Indonesian spouse dies? A mixed marriage ITAP will not be cancelled due to the death of the Indonesian spouse. Do ITAP holders need a sponsor? People holding an ITAP due to being in a mixed marriage do not need a sponsor. Does the mixed marriage ITAP have to be renewed? ITAP holders must report to the Immigration Office every 5 years. There is no charge for this. Is a re-entry permit still needed with an ITAP? Yes. ITAP holders can get a multiple reentry permit that is valid for 2 years. How long can an ITAP holder stay away from Indonesia without losing their ITAP? The ITAP will be cancelled if the holder is away from Indonesia for more than 1 year, or if they do not intend to return to Indonesia. Source: TAPC
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Loose Wire
Why We Work in Starbucks by Jeremy Wagstaff
any sharp sounds that may disturb or distract us. Canadian researchers found that masking noise—adding white noise to their work environment to reduce the intrusion of things like ringing phones—helped office workers concentrate. Stephen King writes to AC/DC or Guns n Roses. Xerox chief researcher John Seely Brown did his doctoral thesis in a bar. Why? Well, researchers in Sweden found that actually a certain level of white noise actually helps kids with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder concentrate. Apparently it’s something to do with increasing the levels of dopamine activity in the brain. And while we can get too much of it, this probably explains the lure of the coffee shop: not intellectual stimulation, but visual and auditory.
A certain level of white noise actually helps kids with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder concentrate.
Why do we do so much of our work at Starbucks? It’s a question I ask myself every day, because I usually find myself in one. This despite having an excellent home office replete with cappuccino machine, music, ergonomic chair and, most importantly, sofa. Why? Well, I think it has to do with noise. Which is why I need to talk, for a moment, about 19th century London. Back then, the streets were full of noise. Enough to get Charles Dickens—and Tennyson, Wilkie Collins and 28 authors, painters, engravers, illustrators, historians, actors, sculptors, musicians, architects and scientists to co-sign a letter that “in their devotion to their pursuits… they are daily interrupted, harassed, worried, wearied, driven nearly mad, by street musicians.” The letter was the centerpiece of a 120-page bill submitted before the British parliament by one Michael Thomas Bass in 1863. The Street Music Act was passed the following year, and decimated London’s itinerant musician community—among them violinplayers and street bands, Irish and Scotch pipers, a German brass-
Oh and the coffee. It’s no coincidence, I suspect that caffeine also increases the production of dopamine in the brain. A double whammy of noise and coffee. Who can resist it?
Canadian researchers found that masking noise—adding white noise to their work environment to reduce the intrusion of things like ringing phones— helped office workers concentrate.
bandsman, a French hurdy-gurdyplayer, Italian street entertainers, and percussionists and minstrel singers from India and the United States.
own and no-one is going to bat an eyelid. Indeed, the size of tables, the size of the chairs, the layout of the place, is designed to cater to someone alone.
Knowledge workers, or whatever we choose to call ourselves, have long struggled to control the level of noise in our world. But at issue is not the pursuit of silence, per se, but to find a source of noise that is conducive to work. And that’s trickier—because we’re not sure what that noise is.
Which is why it has become the perfect workplace. It’s not just the free Wi-Fi, the power outlets, the no-nag policy, although that helps. It’s the noise. Libraries are too quiet, too noisy, too old, too full of friends. For people who work in an office it’s refuge from the boss’ whine, the people chatting around your cubicle, the phones ringing. We need noise. We just don’t need that kind of noise.
Which is where Starbucks comes in. Starbucks likes to think it’s a successor to the old coffee houses—the penny universities of a century before Dickens. But they’re not. It is, primarily, a solo-friendly environment. You can go there on your own, order something and sit there on your
So what kind of noise do we need? Well it turns out we need ambient noise—white noise—that is constant, loud enough to drown out the annoying, but without
JEREMY WAGSTAFF Jeremy Wagstaff is a former journalist who runs a technology and media consultancy in Singapore. His Loose Wire column appears in newspapers and on radio. Write to him at jeremy@loosewire.org.
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Fashion
The Eternal Beauty of Hand Painted Dresses by Alia Soraya Wahid
Eternal beauty. Who doesn’t dream of it? Some people even take the extra effort for it, meditate in the mountains of Sulawesi, wash their faces in the fountain of youth in deep Central Java or even take the painful medical measures to achieve it. This is what designer, Agnes Budhisurya, tries to capture in her gown designs and give another option where you can remain beautiful no matter at what age. Hand-painted art and inspired by lotus flower, she presents one of her collection under the theme Langgeng Dahayu (Eternal Beauty). The philosophy under lotus flower is about how it stays outstanding, colorful and graceful regardless where it is placed. Using the “Agnes” brand, she explains how lotus become an inspiration with its wide curvy leaves, strong structured lines and how it is never harmed by surrounding wounds caused by mean weathers or invading worms. And as the flower ages, the leaves creates an even more artistic curves and shapes around it.
With that inspiration in mind, Agnes hand painted the gowns with lotus on flowy, breezy yet sophisticated dresses with feminine and shapely patterns. A layered thin dress opens the collection with soft gradient colors of green, ocean blue and purple as if you’ve never seen these colors put together before. Other gradient colors of yellow, pink and brown are also making their stands in the collection. Inspired by the strength of lotus’ leaves, Agnes presents the sketches of leaves in dark green on an asymmetrical white-based long gown, with its signature light and breezy material which outlets a royal feminine impression with additional hair accessory for the hair. A knee-length white volume dress is painted with pink lotus and yellow gradient colors, with ruffles accents around the waist that creates volume and stunning ruffle lines on the lower part on the dress.
Soft but strong colors still dominates the runway in a fresh pink-to-white dress in an asymmetrical shape. With signature ruffles around the chest, halter-tied with big accessory at the back of the neck, obviously give more shape on the upper body of the wearer. Layered bottom part is made into gorgeous waves. These are created from multiple ties inside the dress, which is adjustable for the shape and length of the gown. As similar tying style also come in yellow and green colors. This craft of tying presents different kinds of results which makes one dress possesses a million styles. It can be shorten to show some legs or keep it long for more formal events. Or make it into unique uneven shapes and lengths by tying on a single side to create a flamenco inspired skirt. For those who are lucky enough to have legs a mile long, a yellow short volume dress can be a cute option. Playful, combined with ruffles on the chest area and balloon-styled skirt screams fun and sophistication, and not to mention the difficulty of creating this specific design.
Another dress is painted with two embracing lotuses that meet around the waist area which create silhouette of a slimmer curvy waist. Not only painted, embroidery technique is also done over the painting, following the pattern of the curves to come in contrast with the mini dress made in transparent material, asymmetrically cut with light volume. These contrast combination creates an artistic sculpture.
Celebrating lotus, the collection is completed with a green gradient gown made of stiff taffeta, short on the front and wavy long at the back with complimenting hanging long scarf painted of lotus crowns and wide leaves. Find this collection and more in Agnes’ showrooms at Gaya Designer’s Corner, Seibu and Pasaraya outlets in Jakarta.
ALIA SORAYA WAHID Alia Soraya Wahid is the Business Manager of Borderless Healthcare Group and FlyFreeForHealth, international companies which providemedical tourism and second opinion services. She loves writing, traveling and was also the founder and writer for community mini magazine, HotNews, which was distributed nationally. For comments and suggestions, contact her at alia.wahid@gmail.com.
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Art of the Indies
True or False?
The Borobudur Syndrome by Bruce W. Carpenter
The peaceful image of a 9th century stone Borobudur Buddha head, with its slight hint of a smile, tight curls, full lips, third eye and long ears is iconic and endemic in Indonesia. Rare and beautiful Borobudur Buddha heads are among the most desirable and expensive Indonesian art objects throughout the world. Luckily most Borobudur heads still rest upon the shoulders of the five hundred and four Buddha statues that adorn the world’s largest and most famous Buddhist Temple. As any visitor will notice, however, a significant number of heads and Buddhas are missing. Many of these were lost along with the temple after the demise of the Mataram Empire, an event probably caused by a major eruption of Merapi Volcano, which blew its top again last year, but others were victims of early “tourism”. As in other ancient monuments throughout the world 19th century travellers including Sir Stamford Raffles, the man credited for “discovering” Borobudur in 1814, had the habit of lopping off heads and bringing them home as souvenirs. This would only come to an end in 1932 when the colonial government passed a law to stop the practice. Amazingly and in spite of the fact that it would break the law, hundreds of “authentic” Borobudur heads are sold every year. In fact so many have been sold in the last decades that not only every Buddha on Borobudur would be headless today, but so would ten to twenty other Borobudurs that do not exist. The vast majority of buyers are gullible foreign collectors who fall for the story that a priceless muddy replica was dug up in a village well and they have the good luck to be in the right place at the right time. Savvy enough to know they are valuable, they are seduced by the romance and dreams of big profits. The victims are clearly ignorant of the first rule of the art world— if it is too good to be true it probably is. The average price for a head bought in the back room of a fancy gallery in Jakarta is around $5,000. Considering that a documented Borobudur head fetched $600,000 in a Sotheby’s auction in New York in 2007 potential bargain seekers could better seek professional advice or even better a shrink. Don’t fall for Jakarta issued certificates of
Etching 4 from De Boroboedoer by Jan Poortenaar, 1929 from the Bartele Gallery
Amazingly and in spite of the fact that it would break the law, hundreds of ”authentic” Borobudur heads are sold every year. authenticity with big gold stamps either because few if any are worth more than the paper they are printed on. Faking is an ancient art practiced wherever there is a significant difference between true and false. In Indonesia the bad guys are not the artisans who make replicas but unethical middlemen who ‘process’ their work to make it look old to dupe gullible or greedy buyers. In fact most buyers who fall for these scams are accessories to the crime of defrauding themselves. Want a beautiful reproduction of a Borobudur head? The very best artists in east Java only ask around $500 and cheaper versions that look like shoe boxes go for $50. The final choice belongs to you!
BRUCE W. CARPENTER Author and noted Indonesian art expert
Bruce W. Carpenter has authored and co-authored more than 16 books and scores of articles on the art, culture and history of Indonesia. His most recent was Antique Javanese Furniture and Folk Art.
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Gallery
A Glimpse into the Past by Angela Richardson
Kleynenberg & Co. Exhibition Eastern Promise 28 th April, 2011
If you are a photography lover and take an interest in the history of Indonesia, you can’t miss the upcoming exhibition by Bartele Gallery which will be held at Eastern Promise in Kemang and opens on the evening of the 28th of April. The exhibition will display original early 20th century black and white photographs published by Kleynenberg & Co. of Haarlem, The Netherlands, which were printed between 1911 and 1914. These photographs were taken for the educational print series Platen van Nederlandsch Oost-Indie which consists of 171 pictures, 150 of which are of the East Indies, with the remaining 21 being from the West Indies and Surinam, covering landscapes, culture, industries, people, and many more.
The photographer, Jean Demmeni, was born at PadangPanjang in West Sumatra in 1866, son of a French father and Indonesian mother. He entered the army in the East Indies and was assigned to the Topographic Service in Bandung in the early years of the 20th century where he perfected his skills as a surveyor and photographer. Between 1911 and 1940, tens of thousands of pupils in Dutch secondary schools were made familiar with the customs, cultures and landscapes of the far away Indonesian archipelago through these attractive largescale photographs which hung in their classrooms.
day digital photographers a run for their money. It is easy to get lost in the feeling of nostalgia when marvelling at their beauty and Bartele Gallery invites you to attend the opening of this one-month-long exhibition on Thursday the 28th of April with an hour of complimentary draught beer from 7pm.
One hundred years later, the subjects and compositions of these photographs give present-
At this showcase, guests will be able to purchase these original photographs which are
individually framed and measure roughly 90cm by 80cm in the frames. Members of the public will also have the rare opportunity to bid for one complete set of the 150 photographs which focus on the East Indies from Platen van Nederlandsch Oost-Indie, along with the chance to bid for a smaller set which includes the first 50 photographs from this series.
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Food and Drinks
SevenOaks, BSD City by Antony Sutton
BSD City is one of several ‘new town’ developments on the outskirts designed to ease the overcrowding on Jakarta’s creaking infrastructure. With a large number of schools, cheaper rents and pretty good access to Jakarta via a couple of toll roads, 45 minutes to the Pondok Indah area on a good day, more and more people are finding BSD City a viable alternative to living in Jakarta. One area where BSD City is struggling though is night life. There are few quality dining options in the area to tempt its more discerning residents. But things are slowly starting to change and now it is possible to do a mini pub crawl along the main drag. All you need are nerves of steel, an ojek guy you would trust with your life and a bladder also made of steel. Sevenoaks is a new addition to the BSD City supping scene. It’s young, it’s brash and it’s in your face with a staff filled with attitude and mischief.
SevenOaks Café & Bar
There isn’t a whole lot to SevenOaks but what it has it does pretty well. Downstairs a bar backs on to a wall with a mirror that sees the waitresses preening themselves if things get a bit quiet. A few scarves and pictures adorn the walls but this isn’t one of them poncey bars with the shelf life of yoghurt designed by some spotty guy in a wing collared white shirt with heavy black framed spectacles. It’s a bar designed by drinkers for drinkers and it’s shop-house location adds to the intimacy of the place. Cold beer and a menu offering some western food and that’s about it. There’s a bit of live music at the weekends as well as a large screen TV to keep any sports enthusiast happy. Hard to find in BSD, just after ITC, enter the car park immediately before McDonalds, double back on yourself and look out for the Carlsberg signs.
Sektor VII, Ruko BSD R P No 94, Serpong, BSD Phone : 021-538-7134
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UK Pension Transfers “Giving you a better option”
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Food and Drinks
Fettuccine Pisseli
Jackrabbit
Inside the Rabbit Hole First impressions count, and I was immediately taken aback by the lavish tall glass doors of the entrance to this hidden gem in Kuningan that they call Jackrabbit. The name, although actually inspired by the film Public Enemy, somehow conjured up images of Alice in Wonderland and as it turned out, the décor of this hip 1930’s enthused hangout seemed to fit this preconception perfectly. The first thing I noticed upon entering, aside from the warm greetings from the door staff, were the towering high ceilings which had indeed made me feel as though I had shrunk to two inches tall and stumbled into a magical rabbit den. The bar, aglow by the light of many candles, is a magnificent fourteen meters long and punters mingled casually by the bar and around the cosy sofa tables, chillaxing to sexy lounge grooves.
Upon glancing further down this lengthy room, I was wowed by the floating mezzanine floor that hung effortlessly above, its stunning designer shutters enveloping it like a cocoon. Created for private functions of twenty-four, this mezzanine room is the perfect setting for intimate gatherings. The restaurant below the mezzanine holds 130 diners and opens up to a large patio area beside a relaxing water feature and is a great place to enjoy a cool Jakarta evening, whilst shooing away the occasional mosquito of course. From our table in the restaurant section I watched the immaculately dressed kitchen staff bustling around in their hotelier-style steel-clad openview kitchen. It was then time to view the menus. What differentiates Jackrabbit’s drink list from others is its idea of mixology, which I
can only describe as being the art and science of preparing mixed drinks, and is inspired by their resident mixologist, Carson Quinn who uses only the freshest ingredients to conjure up delicious mock and cocktails. This notion of mixology carries on through to the food menu, boasting a wide selection of reasonably priced gastro-culinary enchantments, with probably the best salad in town—the Japanese Garden Salad —which is an infusion of seaweed salad, wakame, garlic sheets, juicy shitake mushrooms, daikon, sesame seeds and a soy and ginger vinaigrette. Starters range from Prawn Tom Yam Soup and Spiced Foie Gras Terrine to a 12 Hour Pork belly in whiskey and from the Daily Catch/Butcher Menu, an exotic Opakapaka Fish can be enjoyed. The Mains menu spoils you with a Butter Poached Norwegian
by Angela Richardson
Everything at Jackrabbit is home-made, from the bread to the distinctly unique tarragon gel and garlic sheets. Salmon, a 10 oz Beef Burger, Deep-Fried John Dory to a Monte Cristo Sandwich, and the chefs have no qualms over creating a personalized vegetarian Pappardelle, Fettuccine or Arrabbiata dish for you. Everything at Jackrabbit is home-made, from the bread to the distinctly unique tarragon gel and garlic sheets—Executive Chef Juna Rorimpandey, who incidentally
Jackrabbit
is currently one of Indonesia’s Master Chef judges, insists that everything is made from scratch in their own kitchen —a fresh idea in this city, I’m sure you’d agree. Desserts include a delicious Mint Cheesecake, Vanilla Panna Cotta and refreshing Sorbets, of which the pistachio flavour was definitely my favourite. The concept for Jackrabbit is simple—to tease and taunt the five senses—and I can say that after sampling the culinary and bibulous delights as well as feasting my eyes on the notable interior design, mission accomplished. If you want an escape from the norm in Kuningan and are looking for somewhere to relax, eat and chat [without having to shout] with friends, this is the place to go. Their Old Fashioned is second to none. Try one if you don’t believe me.
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Personal Tech and Apps
Getting Deals in Jakarta
Recommended Websites
by Mark Hanusz
www.latitudes.nu Latitudes, the magazine from Bali, existed in paper form and was especially known for its in-depth critical articles and beautiful photography. As times have changed and the digitalization has revolutionized the world of printed media, Latitudes has decided to join the digital information waves. www.latitudes.nu is now a new webportal that wishes to reach locals, expats, students, travelers and others living in Indonesia and neighboring countries. To help them find their way in a new and complex environment, www.latitudes.nu promotes building community networks for exchanging ideas and information on living & working in Indonesia. Latitudes.nu contains extensive information on lifestyle, housing, schooling, leisure, travel and many other topics.
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ne of the hottest businesses on the internet today is online deals with US-based sites like Groupon and LivingSocial leading the pack. Part of the frenzy in these websites is due to their astronomic valuations. Groupon recently turned down a USD6 billion offer from Google, and is preparing for a USD25+ billion IPO. To put this in perspective, the largest listed company in Indonesia—Astra International—is valued at USD25.6 billion (and Astra actually makes things). Jakarta is not immune from this global trend with over 20 web-based deal sites like DealKeren, LoveIndonesia and DisDus— which was acquired by Groupon in early April. For those who are unfamiliar with these deal/ discount sites, they all seem to work the same. Every few days the website sends out a bulk email with a daily deal on a service or F&B at a deep discount. If you find something interesting, you make a bank or ATM transfer and receive the discount by e-mail.
You then print out the discount and redeem it directly at the merchant before it expires. The process is cumbersome and awkward, and since these offers only save you about Rp15,000-Rp30,000 one really has to wonder if the entire process is worth it. Walking to the ATM to pay for a coupon you have to print out and remember to bring with you before it expires seems more like a pyramid scheme than any technological advancement.
They are first and foremost a journalistic platform with a social attitude. Daily new articles allow for multiple perspectives on modern South-East Asia. Note: Upon signing up to the Latitudes community, they offer a free introductory language course Indonesian or English.
Fortunately there are sensible alternatives in the deal space for hi-tech Jakartans in the form of mobile apps. The first is CariPromo (iOS and BlackBerry) by Seatech Mobile. This useful app lists current promotions by credit card issuers and is searchable by category, area and bank. For example, if you live near Cilandak and have a Mandiri Visa card, you’ll discover you can get a 2-for-1 pizza on Mondays at Avenue Pizza. That’s pretty helpful information at the right time and with hundreds of deals on offer can certainly save you some rupiah if you plan ahead (and have credit cards). The second app is called Equinox Deals (iOS with BlackBerry and Android in development) and it takes deals a lot further by being a geo-aware coupon book in your pocket. This free app gives users generous discounts from a curated selection of Jakarta’s leading merchants. Using the app couldn’t be more user-friendly. Just download it from the iTunes Store and you’re good to go. Unlike the other web-based deals sites, Equinox Deals doesn’t require registration or advance purchase of anything. Just flip through the deals on offer and if you find something you like, go to the merchant to redeem. The server or cashier then enters a 4-digit PIN on your iPhone or iPad and the app will return a 6-digit authorization code and you get your discount. The app also uses GPS to sort the offers by proximity to your current location so you always see what’s closest to you first. The list of offers is a bit sparse at the moment but more merchants are coming soon. In the end though, whether it’s web-based or mobile-based deals, it’s refreshing to see the dozens of entrepreneurs providing useful ways for users to get discounts in this expensive city, and well as pioneering merchants who have realized that they need to continually promote and compete for customers. Long may this trend continue.
www.easternpromise-jakarta.com Located amidst the bright lights of Kemang, Eastern Promise is a traditional English-style pub that has maintained an established reputation in Jakarta as a prime destination for dining and nightlife denizens for many years. Last month they launched a fantastic website that cleverly includes profiles of their staff as well as funny drawings of the regulars. It all ups to the concept that the staff and customer know each other. By profiling both parties, it certainly promotes the interaction in a way that we remember from the old TV comedy Cheers; 'a place where everybody knows your name'. The site is regularly updated, announcing live music events and also details about their renowned 'Pressure Hour'!
MARK HANUSZ
Mark Hanusz is a long-time Jakarta resident and the founder of Equinox Publishing (www.EquinoxPublishing.com).
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Light Entertainment
Mistaken Identity by Eamonn Sadler
All of us at the Jakarta Comedy Club are very pleased to be involved with the all new Jakarta Expat Magazine. We wish Bart and the gang all the very best for what we are sure will be a very long-lasting, beneficial and funfilled adventure for us all! If you have an amusing story you would like to share with other readers, please send it to eamonn@thecomedyclub.asia and we will publish as many of the funny ones as we can on this page in each edition. If your story is published you will attend the next Jakarta Comedy Club event with a friend free of charge! Here’s one to start us off: On the first anniversary of the comedy club in April 2002, we hired comedians Danny Bhoy, David Lennie and Chris Dooley to appear at our birthday party at the Mandarin Oriental Ballroom. Chris Dooley happened to be on holiday in Bali at the time so we
just needed to fly him from there to Jakarta. I called my great friend Chris Green and asked him if he could buy the air ticket for Chris Dooley and I would reimburse him later (no e-tickets in those days!). He agreed, and he purchased the ticket and arranged to meet Chris Dooley in Bali to give it to him. Chris Green always enjoyed a practical joke, so when they met, he decided it would be funny to tell Chris Dooley in confidence that, despite my apparently straight and conservative appearance, I was actually an enthusiastic homosexual with a penchant for husky Australian men, which is a very good description of Chris Dooley. When I met Dooley at the airport in Jakarta, I held out my hand and said “Welcome to Jakarta!” He grabbed my hand in a vicelike grip and said “Yeah… G’day mate… where’s the Sheilas?” I
winced at the pain in my hand and looked at him thinking “Jeez… This guy is out of control... I’m going to have to tie him up….” I said “Errr... well I’m sure we can find you some company if that’s what you want...” He slowly released the pressure on my hand. “Yeah that’s what I want mate” he said, “Sheilas... and lots of ‘em!” I started thinking where I could take him later that night to satisfy his seemingly voracious needs. I motioned towards the exit and said “We’re going that way.” He said “Yeah... I’ll follow you mate...” So I walked towards the exit and he followed a good four or five yards behind me. He caught up with me at the taxi rank. He threw his bags into the boot of the taxi and we got in, me behind the driver, him the other side, facing me, with his back firmly pressed against the door. I still didn’t know why he was behaving so strangely. During the journey he related stories of his relationships
with women, told me how much he enjoyed the company of women, and so on. Eventually we reached the Mandarin Oriental, and by that time I was seriously worried that there was going to be a newsworthy incident involving this guy and some poor girl—or girls—while he was in my charge in Jakarta. I checked him in and, as I always do, I offered to escort him to his room. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word “no” repeated so many times. I said “Ok, so I’ll see you later for dinner then..?” He gave me a look that said “Not if I see you first mate” but reluctantly agreed to meet me at 7.30pm. That evening I waited for him
at the restaurant and he arrived a few minutes late, looking very nervous. After some initial very awkward conversation with him sitting diagonally across the table from me with his chair pushed back at least three feet, I casually mentioned that my wife and kids would be joining us for dinner. He froze. His eyebrows scrunched into a confused expression for a few seconds, then he put both his hands over his face and I heard a muffled “Oh my God....” permeate though his fingers. When he had sufficiently recovered from the shock he told me what Chris Green had told him, apologised, and we both had a good laugh. I began to plot my revenge on Chris Green....
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Moments in History
They Came to Java It was only a moment but then so often the epiphanal ones are that. Fleeting. It falls upon you when you least expect it and so quickly it has gone forever. A moment to savour but one that can never be recreated for to recreate means to remake artificially and nature cannot be constructed so randomly. I was on a hash. I forget where. Down the Jalan tol, along a bumpy side road, up a potholed track to the middle of nowhere then follow the HHH signs stuck to trees. The bright lights of the kampungs we had left behind and, stranded at the rear as usual, I noticed no one in front of me. For once, on this populated isle of Java, I was alone with neither man nor his beast nor machine for company. I stood awhile perched precariously on the edge of the sawah and tried to make the moment last forever. To the west the sun, a large orange ball, was descended while rapid splashes by my feet told of other life searching food or shelter. Bats took to the wing in the early dusk and all was silent. The mountain top was clear, majestic, the sky clear
by Antony Sutton
but darkening. For the first time in Java I was able to relate to Alfred Wallace, the famed Botanist and long beard grower who opined, back in the 19th Century that Java was ‘… the finest tropical island in the world.’ Of course Wallace was by now means the first Western traveller to visit these shores. He just happened to be one of the most famous. Not so well known was Nicolo Conti who visited in the 15th Century as part of a journey that lasted 25 years and saw him learn Arabic and denounce Christianity. He also was none too impressed by the people he met on Java, describing them as ‘more inhuman and cruel than any other nation.’ Among their perceived sins was the consumption of ‘mice, dogs and cats.’ By the early 16th Century the race for the Spice Islands was under way and the Dutch and British made Banten their base for forays throughout the archipelago. The British certainly didn’t enjoy it.
1 Edmund Scott was an early trader and he spent most of his first 2 years in the then booming coastal city burying his friends and quivering in his stockade at night time, fear brought about hoardes of women headhunters emitting blood curdling screams as they sought to add to their collection. Banten then was a drunken port with drunken sailors and ladies of loose morals. It was also a place where the healthy sickened and the sick died as the tombstones that still stand today attest. A shadow of its former glory, kids now play football among the forelorn walls of the Dutch fort while even the sea has retreated far from the once thriving markets, aware perhaps of its irrelevance.
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3 Plan order Grundris der Insul Onrust oder Unruhe. 1744 by J. W. Heydt. This island, Onrust Island, is one of the Thousand Islands just off the coast of Batavia and had one of the finest ship repair yards in Asia; Captain James Cook’s ship, the Endeavour, was repaired there in 1770on his way home from running aground on the Barrier Reef on the east coast of Australia. Insularum Bandanensium Novissima Delineatio... C. 1652 by Jan Jansson. This sea chart shows the Banda Islands in South Molucca, which were had the only source of nutmeg and mace in the world up to the end of the 18th century. Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia... 1752 by Bellin/Prevost.
Sir Joseph Banks is well known as being the botanist who traveled the South Seas with Captain Cook in the 1770’s. He was shocked by what he saw. When his ship, the Endeavour, berthed in the harbour of what was then known as Batavia, local officials who berthed the vessel to enquire their business were mocked and jeered for their ghostly complexions. Banks and his crew, fresh from the frequent use of vitamins, soon found out the sallow faces were the norm in ‘the extreme unwholesomeness of the place.’ Both Banks and the ship’s doctor fell ill and were helpless as one by one the crew members started dying. Local ‘Malay’ nurses were hired to ease the suffering and this worked to a certain extant but being English Banks and the crew struggled passing on instructions and requests. So it continued until Christmas Day when they were fully provisioned and could finally set sail.
There is of course more to Java than Jakarta. In 1811 the British invaded the island and set out to put the island under the rule of the East India Company. Major Thorn was among the invading party and he recalls Puncak in a manner unrecognizable to us today. He describes the ‘stupendous scenery’ and on a clear day being able to see the ocean on ‘… the one side and the north coast on the opposite.’ The road between Cirebon and Semarang he describes as being the haunts of pirates hence the large number of Dutch forts that dot the northern coast. In the 1980’s I ascended Mount Bromo in a mini bus from Malang. A century earlier John Whitehead arose at 5.30 am in the hill station of Tosari and set out on ponies to see ‘one of the finest sights in Java.’ As he stood in awe at the impressive cone before him he recalled the landlady of the hotel where he had just spent the night. A few months earlier she had buried a son, and a village, who had got in the way of a sudden lava flow. In 1883 some clowns played against the Batavia Cricket Club and, not surprising given they were dressed in their clown outfits, they were roundly beaten by their hosts. Fortunately they were real clowns and not some MCC tour and they were in town for the circus but at times their behaviour resembled that of the Barmy Army, England’s traveling army of drinkers and cricket fans. Staying at the oh so posh Hotel des Indes a fight broke out one night in the bar as the clowns, acrobats and other marvels were getting legless. When they weren’t fighting they were putting
on eight shows a week. Not far to the west Krakatau was putting on a show all of its own. In the manner of backpackers today who crowd message boards with tales of how such and such a place was so much better when they first visited, American travel writer Eliza Scidamore decried Java as ‘finished’ when she visited towards the fag end of the 19th Century. The kampungs she felt were ‘ornamental’ and life in them ‘… theatrical representation’ as if once she had moved on the people suddenly changed clothes and lifestyles like a tropical Potemkin village. She was unimpressed by Batavian colonial society, ‘narrow, provincial, colonial, conservative and insular.’ Worse even, she sniffed, than the Dutch back in the Netherlands. As unimpressed by the Dutch she was impressed by the Javanese. Among the beatitudes she imbued them with they were the ‘flower of the Malay race’, with ‘gentle voices, gentle manners’. Indeed, she huffed, they were the one race that could be attractive to Western sensibilities along with the Japanese. Their language she described as the ‘… Italian of the tropics,’ and while disparaging the Chinese and Indian she felt all protective towards the Javanese who were ‘a little people, and one feels the same indulgent, protective sense’. Everyone has their own personal ideal of Java be it the bars of Blok M, the south coast surf, the kratons of Yogyakarta, the gamelan of Solo or the malls of Senayen. For those few moments I found mine. But it was not for long. A shrill, familiar voice filled the air and split the silence for ever. ‘On on.’
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David Jardine 1948–2011
An Appreciation David, who died on April 9th in Bogor aged 63, arrived in Jakarta in mid-1987 to work as an English language teacher and proved a popular, yet strict, teacher and a congenial companion. A History and Politics graduate of the University of Wales, he soon developed a keen interest in the affairs, both ancient and modern, of Indonesia. This was to stand him iin good stead as, with increasing deafness, he was unable to continue working in classrooms. For a while he worked as a subeditor for two English daily newspapers, the Indonesian Times and the Indonesian Observer. The Times, owned by Suharto’s final Vice President, B.J. Habibie, suspended its operation in the late 1990s following his failure to secure the presidential seat whist the Observer folded in June 2001 because the printer refused to print the newspaper due to “certain financial obligations” that the paper could not honour. From then on David worked, generally on a freelance basis, as a writer for a variety of English language publications. These included the Garuda Inflight magazine, the Jakarta Post, Tempo weekly news magazine, the monthly JakartaJava Kini lifestyle magazine, and a variety of foreign publications such as Z-Net and Socialist Worker (UK). The latter two allowed David to comment from his staunchly socialist standpoint on international affairs, especially on matters of human rights and the military. His father was an airforce officer so David had a peripatetic upbringing, including three years in neighbouring Singapore during the fifties. Shortly after his father’s death in 2004, David wrote, “He was a singularly honest man, tough-minded, caring, a good guy. A lifelong socialist, extremely practical,
by Terry Collins
His passing leaves his many friends bereft of a unique man of integrity.
a short, compact history of one of Britain’s forgotten ‘little’ wars, namely the conflict with the new Republic of Indonesia from 1945-1946, is a monor classic.
- Terry Collins
Books, especially works of non-fiction, were one of David’s greatest loves and he often gave them as gifts, or in exchange for a bottle of Bintang and some for free.
without a trace of humbug in him, he lived through some very interesting times and gave me an interest in lots of things.” Thus we discover David’s wellspring, the source of his integrity and his wide-ranging interests which came to the fore in the many quiz evenings he organised in bars around Jakarta. He revelled in the role of quizmaster, keeping everyone entertained with his presentation and idiosyncrasies, often playing up to his image as a hard-ofhearing curmudgeon. He had a keen sense of humour, with a range of cutting remarks. Of one now departed expat he said, “M.,if you ever reach maturity, you’ll be a halfwit!” His deep love of Indonesia was manifested in his regular statement that “you will never understand a thing about Indonesia until you’ve read A History of Java by Sir Stamford Raffles.” David was a thorough researcher and authoritive writer. Apart from his many articles, his selfpublished Foreign Fields Forever,
As time went on, David’s health began to suffer, and in late 2004 he returned to England for an operation on acancerous growth on his face. Knowing that his income depended on articles he wrote for a number of English language publications around town, friends organised a benefit for him so that he would have some cash in hand when he returned to try and sell, and get paid for, another article. In more recent years, as work dried up, he compiled a series of Mutton Mutiny Scrapbooks —collections of his excellent articles, plus articles written by other people that he considered interesting. For the past year, David ‘retired’ to a room in Bogor from which he would occasionally surface to regale friends with his thoughts on his beloved football team, Carlisle United, or the magnificence of the birdlife in Pulau Seribu or his wanderings throgh the Cumbian Fells or Scottish Highlands.
David was like God—if he did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. He carved himself a niche in the Jakarta expat community that no-one else could have filled. To hear his views was to see events through a new prism, with a heightened awareness of the spectrum of different colors of opinions. And his own color was always that of justice, of sympathy for those who struggled, and battled. There could not be another like him. - John Hargreaves