Metro Mad Jakarta

Praise the Lord, for the rains have finally arrived. And so we find ourselves moving and gathering momentum towards the festive perio...

Bapaks in white coats continue to put the fear of God up Indonesia’s expats. “Doctor, Doctor, I’m at death’s door!” “Don’t worry, ...

Indonesia's Internet is increasingly becoming a free-speech battleground  Issues surrounding that old chestnut, freedom of speech...

The capital has a woeful amount of public space to offer its citizens, who are instead usually to be found taking sanctuary down in its sho...

The Miss World circus came to  Bali recently to a predictable storm of controversy Last September 28, 137 comely young ladies flew ove...

Indonesia is 68 years young Indonesia is into its silver-haired years and celebrated its sixty-eighth Independence Day last August 17...

I've been given the onerous task of composing this month's Afterthought and of offering up a Westerner's "perspective...