Oases in Spiritually Dry Jakarta

Many countries have their cultural centers across Jakarta but a country as prosperous as the United States, strangely, does not think it necessary to have one.

June 11, 2002

Goethe Haus on Jalan Sam Ratulangi, Jakarta is always astir with activities. Singer Nyak Ina Raseuki would fill the room with sound one evening; another evening, graceful dancers would sway across the space, as if to take flight. On yet another evening, the body of a male dancer was bathed in the light from a computer, magically turning him into a female figure, and then turning a human form into something like a machine, blurring the boundar

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