Good News From Indonesia

Last Friday in Jakarta was particularly ugly. There was rain, lightning, thunder and traffic, lots of traffic. But that didn’t stop fans from leaving the comfort of offices, homes, schools and malls and descending on the Tennis Indoor Stadium in Senayan for a concert by Owl City, an electronica act visiting all the way from [...]

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Indonesian actor Tio Pakusadewo announced on Wednesday that he is working together with American actor Mickey Rourke in an upcoming movie. “I am in Yogyakarta now, acting with Mickey Rourke,” the 48-year-old told kompas.com. The movie, titled Java Heat, is about an American citizen, played by Rourke, shadowing terrorists group in Java. Tio will play [...]

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(The Jakarta Globe): Twenty years of European culture comes to the big screen in Indonesia with the annual film festival, Europe on Screen, now in its fifth year. The festival kicked off in Yogyakarta on Friday and will run for one month in seven cities. Showcasing 24 feature-length films and one short produced in the [...]

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(The Jakarta Globe): Four female dancers dressed in green kebaya blouses and batik sarongs sat cross-legged on the tiled floor of the Omah Btari Sri performance hall in South Jakarta in early October. To the weeping sound of the rebab, a Javanese stringed instrument, the dancers pressed the palms of their hands together in front [...]

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Cobalah untuk mengetik “Stanlee Rabidin Kabur Kanginan” ketika berkesempatan mampir ke situs video ternama, YouTube. Anda akan menemukan sebuah video lagu berbahasa Jawa yang dibalut nuansa pop progresif yang enak didengar. Sang penyanyi tak lain adalah Stanlee Rabidin, seorang penyanyi keturunan Jawa berkebangsaan Suriname. Stanlee Rabidin adalah seorang seniman yang dikenal memiliki kecintaan yang tinggi [...]

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Jogja Hip Hop Foundation (JHF) adalah salah satu grup hip hop populer yang berasal dari Yogyakarta. Salah satu ciri khas JHF adalah lirik-lirik berbahasa Jawa. Grup yang satu ini juga selalu mengenakan kemeja batik di setiap konsernya. Di bulan Mei lalu JHF berhasil menampilkan hip hop Jawa di New York, kota sakral bagi para pecinta [...]

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A row of well-used, colorful toothbrushes stood out from advertisements in the British press inviting readers to the “Indonesian Eye” contemporary art exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Those eight toothbrushes were my friends’ that were returned to each owner after I photographed them” explained Angki Purbandono, a relaxed, down-to-earth artist from Yogyakarta. His [...]

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Indonesia bisa jadi belum terlalu sukses mendulang juara di ajang Miss Universe, tapi ini tidak terjadi di beauty pageant lain yang diselenggarakan untuk negara – negara Asia Pasific, Miss Asia Pasific. Perwakilan Indonesia, Alessandra Khadijah Usman sukses menyabet Bess Style Dress Award di ajang Miss Asia Pasific 2011 yang diselenggarakan di Korea Selatan hari Sabtu [...]

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Miss Tourism Indonesia Alessandra Khadijah Usman won the Best Style Dress Award in the Miss Asia-Pacific World 2011 contest in South Korea on Saturday. “The Best Style Dress Award was based on the contestant’s appearance and attire,” Miss Indonesia Foundation spokesman Ahmad R Subing said, as quoted by kompas.com. Alessandra also came close to being [...]

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(The Jakarta Post): Indonesia’s well-known pianist Ananda Sukarlan has initiated an international piano competition that will be held next year in Bandung, West Java. Ananda will cooperate with Bandung International Music Academy (BIMA) to hold the ASA-BIMA International Piano Competition. The competition is scheduled from July 9 to July 14, 2012. The events will be [...]

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