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Morning! Park Jammers are going to play at Melodies for Parks, a cozy afternoon music event in conjunction with Hidden Park at Taman Tanjung, South Jakarta. We will open the event at 14.00, afterwards there will be some awesome Indonesian bands to accompany your sunny Sunday afternoon while having a cone of chocolate ice cream. …

Manifesto is a biennial major art exhibition held in Jakarta. This year’s exhibition was their fourth, and it carried the theme of “DAILY LIFE : Knowing The Sign of Time”. Hall C was like a hidden vault. It was on the other side of the gallery complex, and it has a relatively small entrance. But …

Manifesto is a biennial major art exhibition held in Jakarta. This year’s exhibition was their fourth, and it carried the theme of “DAILY LIFE : Knowing The Sign of Time”.

Manifesto is a biennial major art exhibition held in Jakarta, showing the latest works of prominent artists from throughout Indonesia, although it was still much dominated by those from Jakarta and Yogyakarta.

I almost missed this year’s Flona, if my friend Tika hadn’t reminded me. So we went on the final day, mostly looking at the reptiles. At the end of the day we met a group of people who took their pet owls to the Banteng Square, where the annual Flona (Flora & Fauna Expo) took …

For me Yogyakarta is like Bandung. It has a slow tempo, maybe adagio, where you rarely feel guilty for having long, unexpected chats with friends and strangers. My day trip to Yogyakarta was already very late – I arrived at Solo Balapan station to get the midday train, and the train did not run as …

On Sunday my parents rented a car so they could drive me to Bawen to attend my friend Ceper’s wedding reception. We left Solo at 9-ish, and we arrived at the venue at 11. The reception was held at a conference room that was a part of a recreational complex. My parents waited for me …

Our first day in Solo started off rather late – we went out for lunch at 1-ish at Warung Kita, a Chinese food stall just a few metres from Jalan Slamet Riyadi. We had Cap Cay (sauteed mixed vegetables – here they used the red sauce) and Ayam Goreng Mentega (fried chicken in butter sauce) …

A couple of months ago I went to Semarang with my parents and sister, primarily to visit our ill uncle who had just been admitted to the hospital. Every midday (during visiting hours) we went to the hospital, and our uncle seemed to look better by the third day. We also visited the graves of …