Bali's Buleleng regency has produced grapes since colonial times. According to Nicolas Martin Delacressonniere, a French winemaker, Buleleng's dry coastal weather and sandy clay soil endow its grapes with a pleasant combination of sweet and sour tastes. "Vines need a longer dry season than wet season," said Delacressonniere, who won a gold medal at the 2010 Decanter World Wine Awards.

After 14 years in which it was left in disrepair, the Uma Mbakulu customary house in Praingu Lewa Paku village was reconstructed. Umbu Mbora, the raja of Lewa Kambera and the leader of Praingu Lewa Paku, a village on the island of Sumba in East Nusa Tenggara, had at last got back his throne. "It is in this place that I should live," he told Tempo two weeks ago.

The sound of children's laughter wafted out of the house on Jalan Soekarno Hatta in East Alok subdistrict, Sikka regency. Twenty children were sitting around a large table. Katerina Dua Yovin, 16, straightened up and raised her hand. The other children fell silent.

Yovin, as she is known, began with a story about her neighborhood in Alok, where there were still many parents who beat their children for not doing their homework. "Have you experienced the same thing?" she asked. Alvira Novitasari raised her hand. "I did," she said. "The child is naughty, so he must be beaten."

Fighting corruption is nothing new in Indonesia. But the battle fought by people in rural areas may be something that is little known by the general public. According to Zainal Arifin Mochtar, Director of the Center for Anti-Corruption Studies at Gadjah Mada University, efforts by villagers to fight corruption have to be considered significant, because so far, awareness about fighting it is mostly present amongst the middle classes in urban centers.

Sulaeman does pretty well for himself. The 49-year-old employs four workers on his one-hectare oil palm estate in Sengeti village, about an hour-and-a-half's drive from his home in Tahtul Yaman village. Income from the harvests paid for his three children's college tuition, and for his motorbike.

Clearing Oil Palm in Leuser
Efforts to restore forest in the Leuser Ecosystem Zone that had lasted for six years ran aground when the gubernatorial succession took place. An environment-loving community in Aceh Tamiang tried hard to mend the damage.