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July 10, 2015 edition

During a recent discussion at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, information technology (IT) specialist and mechanical engineer Irwan Tantu from Houston, Texas, in the United States, exhorted the audience of some 400 students to "do something!"

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June 16, 2015 edition

To include tempe (fermented soy bean cake) in the menu of renowned European restaurants was a challenge for Ari Munandar, the executive chef of the restaurants at the Hilton Prague Old Town, a five-star hotel in the capital city of the Czech Republic.
Tempe is not new in what used to be a part of Czechoslovakia. Usually it is part of the vegan menu, well known only among the vegetarians. "Tempe is not in the daily menu of normal restaurants," Ari wrote to Tempo by email last week.

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June 2, 2015 edition

Writer, independent researcher, election 'watcher' and general powerhouse Lily Yulianty Farid is once again back in Makassar, her hometown and place of birth, to attend the annual Makassar International Writers Festival, running on June 3-6.
The multi-feature event, which she organizes practically by remote control from her place of residence in down under Melbourne, is a yearly pilgrimage for her. "I have to go, because that's the activity that I've been most focused on these past four years," she said.

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May 19, 2015 edition

Sugeng ndalu (good night)," 37-year-old Mahmudi Fukumoto greeted in Javanese, by telephone from Kawasaki, Japan, two weeks ago. Even though he has lived in Japan for the past 14 years, he has not forgotten his mother tongue. He spoke for almost an hour about his company, his project and his vision: to help match Indonesians who interned in Japan with the right local franchise companies back home.
It is a highly ambitious vision, given that he knows little Japanese, virtually no English and not much Indonesian. He is fluent only in his Javanese dialect. But he is determined to do something towards the development of his country, in his own way. "I dream of an economically-independent Indonesia," said Mahmudi.

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