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November 11, 2008

REPORTING INDONESIA: The Jakarta Post Story 1983-2008
Author: Bill Tarrant
Publisher: Equinox 2008

IT’S 10:30am, Monday and I am on platform 3 at Gambir Station awaiting the 10:43 Pakuan Express to Bogor and some cool mountain air; 11:30, and finally the train pulls in. We reach Bogor at 1:30pm. The 55-minute journey has taken two hours and my stomach is protesting but I am not. Reason? I am totally engrossed in Bill Tarrant’s history of T

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