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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. To be updated

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By nmcoulson
November 20th 2009

A much needed update Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Kuta

Sorry about my tardiness again. Time just gets away on you when you are having a blast. I will keep this a short update for numerous reasons. The first being there is lots to catch up on. The second is that I do not feel well. Nov 3rd -Hung out at the guest house because everyone was super sore from the massive 9 km trek up the mountain. 2 of our group over exerted themselves and were puking much of the night. Sheryl's sister left and then we flew out to Jakarta at night and stayed in the shittiest and sketchiest [View Full Entry]

By koetjing
November 19th 2009

About koki, supir and tukang kebun Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud

At first sight the title above seems to be written in Gibberish. That is, for people living outside of Indonesia and Malaysia. The only thing I did was use some words in ‘Bahasa Indonesia’, the standard language of Indonesia. Because of the Dutch colonization, many Dutch words were readily taken into the Indonesian language. The title has two of them: ‘koki’ is derived from the Dutch word ‘kok’ which means ‘cook’ and a ‘supir’ is a chauffeur. In Indonesia it is not exceptional to employ house staff. It is not at all a privi [View Full Entry]

By donoonod
November 19th 2009

Bali for 7 days (part 2) Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Kuta

Arrived at Kuta Townhouse around 1ish, after a little of a nightmare for the driver trying to navigate the gang between the two poppies! I’m not 100% sure he’d been down there before either as he is from Sanur. First impressions for me of the Townhouses......all I could think of what are all the rave reviews about? This was not really what I was expecting. Looking out from the reception desk I felt a little overwhelmed and not all that confident that I’d chosen well. After the spaciousness and relaxed feeling of the Tegal Sari, the Townhouses seemed very modern and [View Full Entry]

By donoonod
November 18th 2009

Bali for 7 days Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud

Its holiday time once again for me! I’m off to Bali for 7 days with Lisa, Jenny & Jenny’s sister Christine. We got really cheap fares to Bali with Air Asia when they first started flying from Perth to Denpasar. As this is my 3rd holiday this year, the girls agreed to go ‘budget’, so after lots of searching on the Internet I came up with the Tegal Sari in Ubud and the Kuta Townhouses in Poppies 1, Kuta. None of us had spent any time in Ubud, but we’d all heard wonderful things about how lovely it was. So we [View Full Entry]

By EricSheenaScott
November 17th 2009

Two months in a nutshell.... Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Nusa Dua

Enjoying a Bintang on the Beach

To say we have been tardy in posting a blog would be an understatement, I will therefore attempt to cover the last month or so and keep it concise...sort of. Over the past few weeks we a) traveled to Bali for 4 fun filled, jam packed days with Mike & Rita b) Debated our job situation here in Australia - at nauseum c) Started to plan our trip to the final destination - home d) welcomed Dani (Sheena's cousin) for a few weeks of fun in Perth, e) celebrated Melbourne Cup, and f) celebrated Sheena's birthday! I will preface this blog [View Full Entry]

By Budokan
November 17th 2009

Journey to Nirwana 2009 Asia » Indonesia » Riau Archipelago » Bintan

下一個天亮

Saturday, 14th November 2009 The Bintan trip was never part of our travel forecast for 2009. Ideas flew by during one of the nights in Halong Bay. Since none of us had left our footprints on the island, we decided to give it a go. 1 month later, we were on the island. Slight changes were made to the travel line up as SS was seconded to Shanghai for her business trip and Mapletree was simply caught up with her commitments at work. 4 of us arrived at the relatively "Ulu" Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal on the afternoon of 14th November [View Full Entry]

The resort's free-forming pool overlooking the sea

The great lengths we took to take decent group pictures

By Earthschool
November 16th 2009

Bail Indonesia...Ketut Liyer Eat Pray Love Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud

Yayasan Bumi Sehat
If you are travelling to Bali please take some items from their wish list over to them.

I have travelled to Bali many times and have sponsored a family there for 30 years! After reading Elizabeth Gilberts book Eat Pray Love, I wanted to meet with Ketut Liyer, the 9th generation Healer and Medicine man she wrote about in the book. I emailed Elizabeth and she gave me some details of how to find him but also asked me to visit Yayasan Bumi Sehat. (www.bumisehatbali.org). This is a birthing centre that has been set up in Ubud by volunteers to help local women deliver their babies to try and reduce the number of deaths in childbirth. They have [View Full Entry]

By doffiekik
November 14th 2009

Nha Trang and so on... Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Kuta

Nha Trang beach

Ok. Waar was ik gebleven. Nha Trang ontvluchtten ja. De typhoon kwam richting Vietnam en ik wilde dus zo snel mogelijk weg. Vliegen ging niet omdat alles afgezegd was en de trein kon ik pas 2 dagen later nemen. Ik geen zin om nog eens 13 uur in een slaapbus te zitten, dus bleef ik maar twee dagen extra. Uit wat verhalen maakte ik op dat ik Saigon toch niet leuk zou vinden, dus ik vond het prima. Ik kwam Dusty tegen in een barretje bij het hotel en we raakten al snel aan de praat. Praten maakt de mond droog [View Full Entry]

By dephil13
November 14th 2009

Bali Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Sanur

Balinese Art

Bali 6th November 2009 Having 'done' Myanmar David decided to look at where AirAsia fly to from Bangkok. Bali came up as ridiculously cheap so we just had to go. Added to which Ann wanted to be somewhere exotic for her 60th so Bali seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Overnighted at the very comfortable, if strangely named, Great Residency airport hotel at Bangkok we arrived in Bali to yet another hot and steamy country. As we had no Indonesian cash, we made for a set of ATM's in the arrivals lounge. To our horror the one we chose took [View Full Entry]

By imisshockey
November 14th 2009

More of a Scuba than a Surfer Dude Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Kuta

My massive board!

Hello all, sorry it's been ages since my last travel update, just one of those stereotypical "having too much fun doing a whole lot of nothing" excuses. But now upon reflection I there has been much to discuss, so let's get to it! When last we left our crew was spliting up for a bit to have some time to chill apart. When you travel with the same people day after day every minute together you see you need a bit of space, so this was ours. I flew to Bali home of the legendary surf and met up with Marlise [View Full Entry]

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