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Indomie, another fancy Indonesian product

07 December 2003 - It seems that the Indonesian food and drinks are inspiring me to write down another short story. Only yesterday I found out about the Teh Botol in my hometown, and now I’m writing a story about Indomie, which I bought together with the Teh Botol yesterday. The Teh Botol ... ( read on )

Buying Teh Botol in my hometown

06 December 2003 - The time has come that I have to look for my own stuff here in Eindhoven. I have been living here for quite some years now, and I know my way around here pretty good (maybe with the help of an internet guide). But only a little while ago I ... ( read on )

Just another Indonesian bank scandal

03 December 2003 - Just when investors might have been thinking it was safe to look at Indonesia a little less skeptically, the biggest banking scandal to hit the country since the central bank liquidity scandal, this one involving Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and allegedly fraudulent letters of credit, has shattered confidence yet again. With BNI marked for ... ( read on )

Married with children

21 September 2003 - Ever since my first experience with Indonesia, back in 1999, I also had the experience of being together with a woman. It’s not that I have had that experience before in my life, but being together with a woman here is totally different as being together with a woman in The Netherlands, and I’m ... ( read on )

Dark warnet, noisy warnet

09 September 2003 - As more things in Indonesia, things are different than in Holland. A warnet (warung internet, internet cafe) is something that we don’t know in Holland, in the way is exsists here. But over the last four years, five holidays, I have learned how to cope with several hardships which I have encountered in different ... ( read on )

Sweet home Jakarta?

02 September 2003 - After my few days left in Jogja after my week in Lombok, I'm back in Jakarta again. Yesterday I took the plane from Jogja to Jakarta to relax for the last few days, and to possibly meet some friends and other people here. Earlier on, I didn't know that some friends from Jogja, were ... ( read on )

By bike across Lombok

31 August 2003 - Lagging behind with writing stories, I’m now making an effort to jump another two more days in time, but as usual, it will be hard for me to catch up writing the stories until today. I will to my best for now, but there is so much to do. Too bad I will go ... ( read on )

Lunch at Gili Trawangan

29 August 2003 - I didn’t have a clue what to expect from Lombok, as I have already told before. I have never been there, and outside that it’s a part of Indonesia, and most people are muslem, there is nothing special about it that I know. My website features some information about Lombok, but that’s not written ... ( read on )

First look at Lombok

24 August 2003 - "Oh, you have to visit Lombok, it's very different from other islands in Indonesia, and Bali. It's much more quiet and the people are more friendly." That was what I was told when I told people there was a small chance I would go to Lombok. A very definate 'must see' island. On my ... ( read on )

Jogja traffic-jam

20 August 2003 - In fact it was two days of doing nothing. Well, doing nothing is nothing for me, so that’s not exactly what I did. I was driving around on my motorbike with Cabe, and that’s something which is a little bit more than doing nothing. Not too early in the morning we left for a ... ( read on )

Independence Day in Jogja

17 August 2003 - Pager set at seven, being paged at 6:18 and 6:49, being picked up at 7:30. It’s not an easy life when you are on holiday, as you may have read before. But having the ultimate first and last chance to celebrate Indonesia’s 58th Independence Day in Indonesia, is a chance that I would definately ... ( read on )

Yogya and the small Invasion

15 August 2003 - Arriving at Yogya by train and getting too little sleep over the last week, would come back to me, I was already preparing for that, and I was hoping to prevent it by getting to bed much more early than the days before. Unfortunately the night became all friendly and nice, which caused it ... ( read on )

Bandoeng Bandung

13 August 2003 - Driving around in Bandung, so much to see. I was planning on visiting a location just outside Bandung, called Kota Baru Parahyangan. They are building a completely new city there within a few years, at least that’s the plan. The area is now home to open landscapes with sawah’s, some farms and few people. ... ( read on )

Argogede ke Bandung

10 August 2003 - Not long after I had settelled in South Jakarta, the people who live in the house came home, so I had the chance to meet them again. Bapak was home late, but he liked to see me again, same like the sister of my friend here. She’s about to graduate in a few months, ... ( read on )

7: Jakarta safety

08 August 2003 - In the midst of a true anti-teroris atmosphere I was leaving for Jakarta today. Very early in the morning (read in the night) polisi was driving around Bogor with a hurry. The newspapers now reported that they are behind several terrorists in Surabaya, the same is happening with those in Bogor, because the police ... ( read on )

Green Bogor

07 August 2003 - The first impressions from Indonesia this year. Yesterday I arrived with a late flight via Frankfurt and Singapore. Waiting for the stopovers in Singapore and Frankfurt wasn’t the main problem, but it seemed like I could’t get used to the little turbulence. At the end I was almost ill, not a very good start ... ( read on )

Indonesia's hypermarkets pinch locals

26 July 2003 - Just as they have in the developed world, big-box hypermarkets, which are taking over the top end of the retail trade, are causing severe dislocations in the rest of Indonesia's food chain, from smaller supermarkets down to wet markets to the warungs where housewives sell cigarettes and candy out of their living room windows. ... ( read on )

Problems of fuel subsidies in Indonesia

15 July 2003 - Fuel subsidies have long been a thorny problem for various Indonesian governments. Attempts to reduce the level of these subsidies by increasing domestic fuel prices have often been met by protests, forcing the price hike to be reversed. In January 2003, the government again tried to increase fuel prices, and was again forced to ... ( read on )

Why people meet

15 June 2003 - In the early hours of 2003, the very early hours, I decided it was about time to expand my world of Indonesia on the world wide web. Since about 4 years I have maintained a Dutch links-website under Startpagina ( indonesie.pagina.nl, Startpagina.nl ). I’m doing fine with that one, collecting more and ... ( read on )

Five years after Suharto, Indonesia shows signs of progress

21 May 2003 - East Timor has independence, the military no longer plays a key role in parliament and President Megawati Sukarnoputri has introduced direct presidential elections At the end Suharto was even capable of admitting "mistakes and errors" he had made during his 32 years in power in Indonesia before he resigned on May 21, 1998 in the ... ( read on )

Will Aceh turn into a battlefield again?

06 May 2003 - The Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) were supposed to meet in Geneva on April 25 to restore peace in the restive province. The meeting was scheduled by the Geneva-based Henry Dunant Centre, which had acted as the 'facilitator' of the peace treaty between Jakarta and GAM in December last year. Just ... ( read on )

Higher education still a status symbol

27 April 2003 - Andri Wongso, founder of Harvest Card, the Indonesian version of Hallmark, was not prepared for the questions that came from students at a recent career day held at state SMUN 35 high school, Central Jakarta. Andri had just finished telling his rags-to-riches story to a total of 650 students from SMUN 7, SMUN 24 and ... ( read on )

Dark Past

10 February 2003 - ABDUL Latief unsteadily enters the office of a Jakarta human rights group with a young man at his elbow. He struggles to mouth an intelligible greeting, the consequence of a stroke he suffered some years ago. Latief, a retired colonel, is a member of a dwindling generation to have an intimate recollection of the ... ( read on )

Taman Fatahillah; center of the Dutch power

04 February 2003 - What intrigues me about the 'old Indonesia' is the Dutch part. Maybe because I'm Dutch myself, but mainly because there is fairly little I know about it actually. If I think about how little information I got in school over the years I actually was in school. I wrote about this earlier, and about ... ( read on )