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December 25, 2007

CULTURE SHOCK JAKARTA A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette Authors: Derek Bacon and Terry Collins Published by: Marshall Cavendish Editions 2007

THE night before co-author and long-term Jakarta expatriate Terry Collins passed the new edition of Culture Shock, Jakarta to me I went, as I have often done, to the none-too salubrious Central Jakarta district of Senen to a line of roadside warung (foodstalls) that sell Nasi Padang or, to use a

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