Oleh Oleh is a tradition here. The practice of bringing back gifts for people when you go away on a trip. Most Indonesian airports here have dedicated Oleh Oleh shops for just […]
Oleh-Oleh!
The Trouble with the Gays
It’s been just six weeks since the bombing and shooting in Central Jakarta, so it is understandable that the country is in an uproar about… the gays. All the other letters are […]
Istiqlal Mosque
We’ve been here for a year and a we hadn’t been yet to the Isitqlal mosque. This is a huge presence in the north of the city. It’s the largest mosque in […]
To Market, To Market
Suddenly, just like that, we’re on the downward slope of our time here. A handful or two of months. A bushel of weeks. The clock is ticking insistently. With the dwindling weekends […]
Secret Asian Man 