Red DURIAN?, Yes, it is different from the ‘normal’ durian we usually eat. However it has things in common, prickly skin and the odor is very distinctive and stinging. Eating durian is not intoxicating as it has relatively low alcohol content. Red Durian (Durio graveolens) is a wild durians found in the forest at banks of Mahakam [...]

By Karim Raslan From the viewpoint of race, Indonesia is a liberating, even intoxicating place, especially for Malaysians like me who’ve been conditioned to view people in cultural and religious “silos” — Malay, Chinese and Indian. The Indonesian approach to race is infinitely more fluid. Distinctions are relatively unimportant. These contrasting ways of perceiving the world lie [...]

Americans slather it on hamburgers, hotdogs, eggs and whatever it is that they can get their hands on, oblivious to its importance in our lives. Nearly everyne like ketchup, even if what they like to put it on seems weird, Nixon covered his cottage cheese with it, the Japanese eat it on rice and one [...]

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has chosen Indonesia as the company’s regional production hub for liquid crystal display (LCD) television sets and has relocated its Vietnamese factory to Indonesia. ndonesia will be the only production base for Toshiba LCD TV in Asia and Oceania. Toshiba’s company’s factory in Vietnam had been relocated to Indonesia to strengthen the [...]