Background: The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hostilities, and UN mediation before the Netherlands agreed to relinquish its colony. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state. Current issues include: alleviating widespread poverty, preventing terrorism, continuing the transition to popularly-elected governments after four decades of authoritarianism, implementing reforms of the banking sector, addressing charges of cronyism and corruption, and holding the military and police accountable for human rights violations. Indonesia has been dealing with armed separatist movements in Aceh and in Papua.
July 18th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud 025 - Indonesia - Ubud
07/18/08 - 07/25/08
Art shopping in Ubud
We stopped by Ubud, Bali to do some art shopping and little bit of pampering. You may recall Hannah's story a few months ago w ... 12 photos[full story]
July 4th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud After leaving China, I had turned south to head to Indonesia and Bali was my first stop. Of all the places I have been on my trip, this has probably got to be one of the least planned segments. I bo ... 28 photos[full story]
July 17th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud One of the great things about Bali (which is about the size of Delaware) is that you can see many of the tourist highlights in one day! Being in one place for several weeks allowed me to see the Indon ... 10 photos[full story]
July 15th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud Bali means Island of the Gods, its religion is 93% Hindu which expresses itself through the many hourly, daily, monthly, bi-monthly, yearly, twice yearly, decade, end of century, beginning of century, ... 69 photos[full story]
July 18th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud After hitching a dive boat for a three hour voyage (which one of us would describe as "harrowing") across the Bali straits from Lombok we arrived on the Balinese coast. It was immediately obvious tha ... 4 photos[full story]
July 12th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud We arrived in Bali with a little trepidation. After weeks of the modern-world safety net of New Zealand and Australia, we were beginning to hear questions being posed to us: "You're going to Indonesi ... 88 photos[full story]
July 14th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud Hello..
So we arrived in Kuta yesterday from Singapore.... Kuta is like Costa Del Sol for the Auzzies, We arrived early hours in the morning had a quick kip then walked along the beach north to Semin ... [full story]
July 3rd 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud I've been here now for over three weeks so I feel like I can give you a pretty accurate description of what I have been doing here at Bumi Sehat. I wanted to wait to write about my clinic life until I ... 9 photos[full story]
July 8th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud So it is 8:20 in the evening and we are about to go get dinner. We have just had the wonderful experience known as Traditional Balinese Massage. Yes, twice in one week! This was the real deal erasi ... [full story]
July 7th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud I spent my last night in Bali in the hill town of Ubud-about 2 hours north of Kuta. It was a nice change since being around so many tourists and endless tourist shops got to be overwhelming-like spend ... [full story]
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