JAKARTA KID
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(CHAPTERS - jakartakid has shorter chapters.)
CHAPTERS
1. JAKARTA: SIX DEGREES SOUTH
2. NIGHT AND DAY
3. THE HILL TOWN OF BOGOR
4 THE HIGHLAND CITY OF BANDUNG
5. TWO WEDDINGS

6. ONE HAND AND HIS MOTHER
7. BANGBANG ON JALAN SUDIRMAN
8. PELABUHAN RATU
9. SINGAPORE AND JOHOR BARU
10. FOUND IN KEBAYORAN LAMA

11. DOCTOR JOSEPH
12 THE HAVE A NICE DAY HOTEL
13. THE BOY FROM SUMATRA
14. THEY SHOT YOUR FATHER?
15. A LOVER LIKES HIS LOVED ONE TO BE POOR
12 THE HAVE A NICE DAY HOTEL
13. THE BOY FROM SUMATRA
14. THEY SHOT YOUR FATHER?
15. A LOVER LIKES HIS LOVED ONE TO BE POOR

16. HAMID'S GRANNY AND IWAN'S FEET
17. REJECTED BY HIS FAMILY
18. MOTHER LIVES FAR AWAY
19. FAMILY
20. BABY

21 TWO WIVES TO SUPPORT
22. SUKABUMI
23. NEW HOME
24. BANTEN AND MERAK
25. SAEPUL PUNCHES HIMSELF IN THE FACE



51. DUKUNS
52. THE BEACH AT ANYER
53 ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL
54 FIRDAUS SQUEEZED MY HAND
55. FAJAR AND THE LITTLE STREET MUSICIANS
56. MEGAWATI AND RIOTS
57. NEIGHBOURHOOD CHIEF
58 DENGKLOK
59. THE ROAD TO CICURUG
60. ELECTIONS AND TESTICLES

61. STRESS
62. KAMPUNG
63. MAY RIOTS
64. KUALA LUMPUR
65. AGUNG
66. NINJAS
67. DESTABILISATION
68. CHANGE

http://jakartakid.blogspot.com/
http://jakarta-kid-2.blogspot.com/
Video
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=KentClark3
Various people's photos:
Photos of Jakarta area http://community.webshots.com/user/aangirfan
Photos of Indonesia http://community.webshots.com/album/34974358MFLDww
Map of West Java http://www.euroindonesian.com/country/indonesia/WESTJAVAMAP1.jpg

Other people's blogs:
http://jakartass.blogspot.com/
http://ourmaninhanoi.blogspot.com/
http://wassumbee.blogspot.com/
http://carfwebnet.blogspot.com/
http://coffeeliqueur.blogspot.com/
http://sparklingcosmic.blogspot.com/
http://indcoup.blogspot.com/
Labels: Alfred Russel-Wallace, Bandung, dukun, expat, hospitals, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, Kuala Lumpur, Merak, Pelabuhanratu, Puncak, Singapore, Suharto, Sukabumi
3 Comments:
Michael Portillo has recently extended his 'Great Asian Railway Journeys' to Indonesia
People there as friendly as ever ... but women are much more often veiled than they used to be, the Saudi influence pushing aside older, more locally Indonesian customs of female dress
Many interesting scenes in the videos
'Jakarta to Bogor', 28m57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y2MDrhRLmk
Jakarta to Borobudur, also 28m57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-03WVtRILn0
Yogyakarta to Ambarawa, 28m46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9c2ff1_iLg
Ambarawa to Surabaya, 28m52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt0-_20RXi0
The Jakartass website unfortunately doesn't exist anymore, been gone for a few years already. Terry, who was the guy behind it passed away after a pretty long bout with typhus and his blog was one of the best blogs about Indonesia, he was writing really deep about the billionaires here, their corruption, the corruption of the police, the army, the elite and his writing style was just next level.... I wish his blog was still up but I think it was probably removed by his eldest son or maybe his Indonesian wife, it's a pretty risky thing to do, the stuff that Terry was posting.... And even though we never met in person, me living in Bandung and him living in Jakarta I considered Terry a friend, we were always writing each other, mostly about music and politics, Terry was deep into the Indonesian Jazz scene, something he also wrote about a lot... I miss him....
Sportsman's bar. Terry was brilliant. Typhus or ...
- Aangirfan
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