The Journal

Editor’s Note: If you have lived in Indonesia for any length of time, chances are you will recognize many of the situations described below. While...

Editor’s Note: This story is a humorous look back at a unique period in Indonesia during the late 1990s and early 2000s, when VCDs (Video...

They started talking about ‘water wars’ years ago. At the time, it seemed a remote and unlikely possibility. Most dismissed it as another nutty-professor theory,...

Editor’s Note: This article reflects Aida Greenbury’s observations of Jakarta’s restaurant scene at the time it was written. While today’s dining landscape has evolved considerably—with...

The nail-bitingly boring life of sitting – on a standard squeaky non-ergonomic office chair – in a cubicle at my previous place of employment is...

Editor’s Note: This opinion column by Aida Greenbury was originally written following an environmental pollution incident in Indonesia during 2003–2004. While the specific events described...

In Indonesia, most people eschew the use of western-style cutlery, preferring to use their right hands to eat. To cutlery culture folks this, with all...

September 20th, 1975 It was my first trip outside of England and Australia. I arrived at the tin shed called Kupang airport, Timor with one...

If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would...

… Donna’s JP article opens a debate The Jakarta Post April 11, 2001 Opinion: Foreign advisers and consultants as catalysts By Donna Woodward Medan, North...

O.K. buddy, so now you’ve moved to Indonesia. You’ve got the prerequisite expat training/package, the “Learn Bahasa in 2 Hours” books, the “Surviving in Indonesia”...