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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.




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Well our journey of Malaysia comes to an end and we have to say how amazing Malaysia is! It is one of those places that in the past we never really thought of, but we should say that it definitely has to be put on the map. So we now enter what is most likely to be the most taxing, most arduous part of our travels...but we are expecting it to be the most rewarding. With such as huge country we won't be even exploring half of it, but nonetheless we'll enjoy what it has to offer. Dan raves about it [View Full Entry]

Amy and Dan - The Banana Pancake Adventure | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 12th 2009 | 67 Views | [diary=435123]


By helenlb
June 15th 2009
Moving moving Asia » Indonesia » Sumatra » Medan
I've done so much traveling over the last few days. And the last week or so before I was going out every night so I'm starting to forget my own name. No not really, I quite like long journeys. I guess that helps when you're traveling. It's nice to just sit and look out of the window and think and read and listen to music. Good way to clear my head. But it is tiring. So we had a couple more days in Ko Toa. Beaching and partying and hanging out. The group of guys I was with were awesome. Then [View Full Entry]

helenlb - Helen Brannigan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 15th 2009 | 63 Views | [diary=408773]


By heraclio
June 9th 2009
Adios to Lake Toba Asia » Indonesia » Sumatra » Medan
Sumatra,Medan. 27-02-2009. Back in Medan, this dusty typical third world muslim town full with stinking open gutters, heavy traffic of the rusty type and people evrywhere going to and fro on a mad quest for Allah only knows what. For the sake of convenience - and still having lots of local tatty notes of Rp. still in my pocket that need to get out of there - I decided on an airco minibus to Medan - 25.000 Rp. for a local bus and 70.000 Rp. for a airco minivan with the added advantage they drop you off in front of the [View Full Entry]

heraclio - Hans Klausmann | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 9th 2009 | 175 Views | [diary=406951]

Local child
Bintang Beer

Indonesia, Sumatra, Medan, 18-02-2009. Adios and goodbye it is to Penang with its neglected Chinese shophouses, its lively Chinese culture boldly mixing with its other city dwellers like the big Indian and Malay populations and backpackers from all over the world, no more relaxing evenings on the malecon watching the locals stroll tranquilly while enjoying an ice-cream, a bit of a chat with long robed Hindus while making serious work of my cherished Masala Dosa in Little India. I leave my hotel early morning dressed in my faded blue jeans and old T-shirt, my favorite travel clothes, read [View Full Entry]

heraclio - Hans Klausmann | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 27th 2009 | 132 Views | [diary=402698]

on the ferry
city scêne

(Day 374 on the road) The island of Batam on Sumatra in Indonesia is only 30 minutes south of Singapore by ferry or a short ferry-hop from Malaysia, but it is a different world altogether. Where Singapore and Malaysia are pretty orderly and easy on the traveller, Batam is chaotic and a lot of hassle. In a way it feels good to be in a more chaotic country once again, but after a few hours I was already longing for the peace of hassle-free Malaysia. Still recovering from the 25 US$ entry fee (they call it visa on arrival, but no [View Full Entry]

LivingTheDream - Ben Beiske | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 13th 2009 | 507 Views | [diary=389295]

Pickpockets got my wallet here
Singing and dancing the Koran
Watch your step

By natanoja
April 4th 2009
Who's watching who? Asia » Indonesia » Sumatra » Medan
We arrived at Medan airport on lunch time, after some talks and bargain we managed to get a taxi to Bukit Lawang. It was a 4 hours trip, the road wasn’t smooth. Too many palm oil plantations as well. In the middle of the trip there was suddenly a motorbike stopped the taxi and one guy jumped in the car. He introduced himself, Pak Ren, as the driver’s friend who works at Bukit Lawang. He was asking about where I would stay at Bukit Lawang, and what I want to do there. I really wasn’t comfortable and kind of ignore him [View Full Entry]

natanoja - astrid leoni jonathan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 21st 2009 | 180 Views | [diary=392644]

made by heart
from my room
Galuh

Its been near 2 weeks since my last entry, and to be honest I don't have much to report. I flew to Malaysia to meet a friend of mine from high school. Upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur, the weather wasn't great, the city was insanely expensive and the islands we were intending to visit were closed due to monsoon weather. After seeing the Petronas Towers (which are quite unbelievable), and chowing down on some local Indian street food, I decided to take my friend Matt to a place I knew he would enjoy for his 12 days abroad. It wasn't an [View Full Entry]

Dave Reisman - Dave Reisman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 16th 2008 | 128 Views | [diary=354658]


By LISASTU
September 13th 2008
Sumatra - Indonesia - MEDAN Asia » Indonesia » Sumatra » Medan
We took the high speed ferry from Penang across to Sumarta, it should of taken 4hrs but 6hrs later and lots of very ill people we arrived, the sea was really rocky, one minute you can see just the sky to one side of the boat then just the waves. We caught a mini van to the Capital City of Medan, now these mini vans are something else, they would be scrap in the UK, there is more filler than body work, most have spoilers onthe back, Bob Marley painted all over them and no doors. But we arrived eventually, again [View Full Entry]

LISASTU - LISA STUART | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 14th 2008 | 191 Views | [diary=323041]


By Jenni
June 26th 2008
Third Largest City Asia » Indonesia » Sumatra » Medan
Wednesday June 25, 2008 - After breakfast I met Sebastien at my guesthouse. He was right on time at 8:30am. One of the woman there told us we could catch the ferry from the dock at the hotel, that we didn't need to go to the ferry itself. So he ordered a coffee and brought it to the dock and we waited. She was right. We flagged it down and it came over. The ride is about thirty minutes back to Parapat which gave me plenty of time to learn something about Sebastien. And what I learned was that he forgot [View Full Entry]

Jenni - Jennifer Baldacci | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 1st 2008 | 201 Views | [diary=293872]

Meet Sebastien
On our motorbike ride to the bus station
Garbage on the move

Medan: English Lesson with a Happy Ending It’s a day faster and with Air Asia it’s actually cheaper to fly KL to Medan, Indonesia's third largest city, a quick hop across the Straights of Malaka but I need to reach it by sea, want to relive bygone days of explorers and spice traders. The ship, however, is oblivious to any romantic notions, a low aluminium hull tosses its cargo from port to starboard and back mile after nautical mile, air con preserving passengers like produce in a refrigerator, no promenade deck for shuffleboard, just a muddy window pane, and a neighbour [View Full Entry]

wheres kevin - Kevin Gurr | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 24th 2008 | 1425 Views | [diary=286664]

masjeed Raya, Medan
students, Maimoon Palace
Dokan, traditional village outside Berastagi


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