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Comedy of Errors

28 December 2000 - Tense times for the rupiah and the economy amid Bank Indonesia's crisis at the top. Syahril Sabirin is back at work after six months away, and there's something of a celebration on. Jacket tossed over his shoulder, Indonesia's mild-mannered banking chief wades through a crowd of central bank employees welcoming him back like some ... ( read on )

Bank Indonesia Rapidly Heading Towards Catastrophe

13 December 2000 - It is really to be regretted that finding a solution for the Bank Indonesia case seems to take forever. Central banks anywhere in the world, are very respectable institutes, they are honored for their exalted position. Why? For reasons that our economy is no longer a primitive one, when everything was ... ( read on )

Indonesia to lose in tough separatist policy

12 December 2000 - Indonesia's return to tough measures to squash separatist movements in outlying provinces will only strengthen the rebels' cause and bring more bloodshed to the violence-plagued nation. Analysts warn that the shift from a reconciliatory stance to the use of force also marks the rising influence of hardliners and staunch nationalists in the political elite ... ( read on )

The coming political panorama in Indonesia: A speculation

11 December 2000 - Back in May 1998 I wrote that “the departure of Suharto as President Indonesia will very probably be followed by the emergence of new political forces and the disappearance or decline of old established forces.” I had no inkling at that time that there would be 98 political parties trying to win the trust ... ( read on )

Ramadhan; quiet time in turbulent Indonesia

29 November 2000 - Indonesia is still in crisis. Currently violence flares up again in Aceh. The battle for independence has revived. And Aceh is not the only place, on the Moluccas Christians and Muslems are still fighting eachoter over the most stupendous things, and elsewhere in Indonesia the situation is tense every once in a whyle. Currently ... ( read on )

What's the appeal of dating a foreigner?

06 November 2000 - Let's just use the word "foreigner" in discussing mixed marriages as some people get so upset with the use of bule (it can be either a blatant insult or a harmless naive term) The "f" word also carriesmore general meanings; it embraces all types of non-Indonesians -- Caucasians, Africans, Chinese and other races. If ... ( read on )

Opposites attract in mixed marriages

05 November 2000 - A visit to a shopping mall always has the potential to become ugly for "Bill" and his wife, "Sita". There are the stares, the double-takes and, frequently, the hurtful comments, spoken in a stage whisper so the American and his younger Indonesian wife will be sure to hear. "It gets very tiresome ... ( read on )

Losing Power to the Street

01 November 2000 - It all started with power to the people, May 1998. Students took the streets to protest the government, in special President Suharto at that time. Within exactly one week of severe clashes, demonstrations and a big number of gruesome casualties, reformasi against Suharto was formally ended. He had stepped down, and since that was ... ( read on )

Military moves and the threat of coup d’etat

25 October 2000 - Reform is a process of dismantling and putting things back together. As such, the more unbending and unyielding an institution, the greater the pain it will feel when undergoing a process of reform. The Indonesian Military (TNI), like any other military organization in other parts of the world, is an organization that is intrinsically ... ( read on )

New period of world turbulence

12 October 2000 - When the Jakarta stock market plummeted by 31 points on Sept. 18, 2000, many domestic analysts directly blamed the bomb explosion at the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) building as the main cause. We, on the other hand, beg to differ. In our opinion, most of the decline in the JSX can be directly attributed ... ( read on )

Wahid goes to war

20 September 2000 - Saludin, a newly hired driver for Coca-Cola in Jakarta, was waiting in his car in the underground parking lot of Jakarta's stock exchange when a bomb exploded last Wednesday. "There was a loud bang and the windows of my car were shattered," the 27-year-old Indonesian recalls. "There were flames everywhere." Saludin jumped out of ... ( read on )

A fair share of the spoils

28 August 2000 - The oil-rich province of Riau generates 20% of Indonesia's wealth but gets back only a fraction of that. The locals are demanding more. Syaparudin, a former logger, stands next to the Caltex oil pipeline that stretches for 900 km across the central Sumatra province of Riau. Locals call it the "giant ... ( read on )

Hopefull signs for Indonesia

25 August 2000 - Going by the headlines and TV images, it's easy to conclude that Indonesia is a hopeless mess. Riots, bombings, assassinations, ethnic violence, a country torn apart by chaos and evil. So when I told friends last month that my wife and I were going to Indonesia for a one-week vacation, most said something along ... ( read on )

Can we find Indonesia?

17 August 2000 - Indonesia is missing. The country is lost somewhere, in the jungle of anarchy, instability, economic crisis and leadership crisis. This is not the first time Indonesia is missing; indeed this was the second time the country is missing. A capsule history records that the natives of various kingdoms in this southeast outer islands of ... ( read on )

One chance I wasn't allowed to let slip away

05 August 2000 - Sometime in the evening I'm writing this down. Home from Indonesia about two weeks, and now I really feel the regret coming up about one certain thing. Fifi also asked me about it, and I said it wasn't that nescesary as I told her before. But ever since she asked me, I felt worried ... ( read on )

Hotels' dual rate policy comes under scrutiny

12 June 2000 - The number of hotels and entertainment places in the capital adopting different rates for services for local and foreign customers has been growing since the economic crisis hit the country in 1997. Much more, the gap in price has become wider with time. As a result, numerous foreigners find it hard ... ( read on )

Timor refugees

08 June 2000 - About 250,000 people were forced from their homes in East Timor last year after militias supporting Indonesia reacted violently to the vote for independence on August 30. Nine months later, about 100,000 of those who fled remain in West Timor -- living in more than 200 squalid, disease-ridden camps scattered across the countryside. ... ( read on )

The saving grace for an Indonesian city

06 June 2000 - The prosperous, tree-lined streets of Bandung hearken back to an era earlier this century when the city was known as the Paris of Java. Dutch colonial administrators at that time enlisted European architects and town planners to transform Bandung into an elegant holiday destination dotted with Art Deco buildings and other designs of the ... ( read on )

Seduction

09 March 2000 - Just recently I even had Indonesian television on the internet. I regularly listen and read reports and messages like they are presented over there. We all know there is no better result to get than the duo of "Gus Dur" ( Abdurrahman Wahid ) and Sukarnoputri ( Megawati ). Of course the Wiranto-army thought ... ( read on )