May 31, 2016 edition

Daisy Hadmoko, journalist and veteran travel writer, is in a quandary. Now that most of her books have been given away, she wants to ensure that the important large books she still has get a readership. In other words, she wants to donate them to a repository. "But I no longer know anyone," she said with a sigh.
Actually, this is an understatement. Whenever Daisy Hadmoko is in a roomful of people, there are always people who come up to her to chat. Or to tell her that she may not recall them, but they know her from her from when she was managing editor of Indonesian Observer.

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May 17, 2016 edition

Mella Jaarsma recalls a day in July 1998 when, along with six other foreign visitors standing across the Agung State Palace in Yogyakarta's Malioboro area, she watched as a dish of frog legs was being fried in a big wok over a charcoal stove. Passersby stopped their strolling to watch the strange scene: seven foreigners watching their dish being cooked on the side of a street. The dish was then offered to the onlookers.
"It was all consumed," said Jaarsma, who initiated the performance art titled Pribumi-Pribumi ('The Indigenous'), recalling that particular activity some 18 years back when Tempo visited the Rumah Seni ('Art House') Cemeti in Yogyakarta.

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May 10, 2016 edition

Mella Jaarsma recalls a day in July 1998 when, along with six other foreign visitors standing across the Agung State Palace in Yogyakarta's Malioboro area, she watched as a dish of frog legs was being fried in a big wok over a charcoal stove. Passersby stopped their strolling to watch the strange scene: seven foreigners watching their dish being cooked on the side of a street. The dish was then offered to the onlookers.
"It was all consumed," said Jaarsma, who initiated the performance art titled Pribumi-Pribumi ('The Indigenous'), recalling that particular activity some 18 years back when Tempo visited the Rumah Seni ('Art House') Cemeti in Yogyakarta.

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March 29, 2016 edition

They include bankruptcy and crossborder insolvency, constitutional law, cultural property rights, economics, fundraising, management and governance for foundations, human rights and civil liberties, indigenous rights, customary law and adat communitiesthe list goes on and on. His particular specialties include arbitration, legal and judicial reform, documentation and information, legal research and analysis and planning for institutional change.
Arriving in Indonesia for the first time in late 1969-early 1970, most likely as a hippie backpacker the way he tells it but one who had just completed a sterling education at Cornell University and was gearing up to go to Harvard Law School afterwardsGreg has nurtured a love affair with Indonesia for nigh on 46 years now.

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