Country Director of HOPE Worldwide Indonesia Charles Ham has just sms'd in an update of the organizations earthquake relief efforts in Yogjakarta. This is what it says: 1 week update on Hope Worldwide in Jogja: 1 ton food & 200 shelters for 3,000 victims distributed. 500 treated medically. 10 tons medicines & food is on […]
Category Archives: Indonesia
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What to do with Suharto?
Justice, said Nietzsche, is the spirit of revenge. So it is that there are lots of people queing and clamouring for justice where Suharto, now apprently on his deathbed, is concerned. Should Suharto be pardoned, as the Government is wont to gdo, or Should justice be served and Suharto be punished? I think there is […]
Indonesian Catholics smarter than Vatican
The Bishops Conference of Indonesia (KWI) has wisely decided not to ban Catholics from watching the movie Da Vinci Code. This decision is at odds with the Vatican which banned the faithful from watching the movie for fear that they would be led astray by Hollywood. The KWI’s decision is based on its assumption that […]
Supreme Nonsense
There is something terribly wrong in a justice system where a Chief Justice under suspicion can barge his way through to a second term. Bagir Manan, as we know, was sworn in for his second term at the State Palace yesterday. We also know that he is under suspicion of being bribed by the lawyer […]
Waisak in Borobodur
I have always fantasized about spending Vesak, or as the Indonesians call it, Waisak, in Borobodur. I imagined hundreds of monks serenely performing a ceremony with Borobodur as the backdrop, candle light processions…boy was I wrong. Invited by photographer Jerry Aurum to go hunt some photos in Borobodur over Waisak, I jumped at the chance […]
