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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 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

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 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]

By Trisha and Monty
November 14th 2009

The Non-Beach of Bali ~ Week 1 (by Trisha) Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud

At one of many temples in Ubud...

Monty is about to trade me in if I don’t stop snapping photos, but this first part of Bali has been so breathtaking, my eye might as well be super-glued to my camera for convenience. And, I’m a Smith.. I’m pretty sure, it’s in my genetic makeup, right family?! We arrived in Bali on November 7th completely out of fuel. Requiring us at the airport before 4 am in Bangkok after a night on Koh San was a task that only an all-nighter seemed right for. Sleeping on the plane saved us a bit, but we were pretty exhausted to say [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 elisedeneubourg
November 10th 2009

Eerste week Asia » Indonesia » Sumatra » Banda Aceh

Dag lieve Blog lezers, Allereerst bedankt voor alle lieve berichtjes op mijn vorige blog. Zo mijn eerste week Banda Aceh zit erop en met veel trots kan ik melden dat ik het heb overleefd. Hier een greep uit mijn recente avonturen. Woensdag avond vroeg Patrick of ik geen zin had om in de stad met hem wat te gaan eten. Patrick, mijn huisgenoot, houdt er niet van om te koken dus meestal wil hij uit eten. Dus zijn idee was om een taxi te nemen naar de stad. Oké, wat hij onder een taxi verstond wist ik niet. Maar hier in [View Full Entry]

By honeymoonfirst
November 8th 2009

Bali & The Gili Islands Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud

Ubud Hike

So, we left Japan after a quick day of fish and sightseeing and were off on the longest travel days. We flew from Tokyo, Japan to Hanoi, Vietnam. We arrived in Hanoi at about 10:30pm local time and not having Visa's we were planning on spending the night in the airport. After about and hour and a half of negotiating with the immigration officer on duty, we were allowed to stay in the airport overnight until our 9:30am flight left for Kalua Lumpur, Malaysia. That flight landed at the most chaotic airport of all time with about 16 flight gates in [View Full Entry]

By elisedeneubourg
November 3rd 2009

Aangekomen in Banda Aceh Asia » Indonesia » Sumatra » Banda Aceh

Mijn kamer

En toen begon het avontuur pas echt. Na een paar dagen verblijf in Jakarta. Vloog ik maandag 2 november (gisteren dus) naar Banda Aceh. De plek waar ik voor naar Indonesië ben gekomen. Ik vertrok maandag zeer op tijd vanuit het hotel, het verkeer staat bijna permanent stil in Jakarta dus voor een stukje rijden naar het vliegveld (30 km) moet je twee uur rekenen. Maar zoals je altijd zult zien was er die ochtend geen traffic jams en kwam ik dus twee uur te vroeg op het vliegveld. Na een vlucht van drie uur land ik in Banda Aceh, vlak [View Full Entry]

By Scary Israel
November 1st 2009

cigarettes: they make your brain go crazy Asia » Indonesia » Sumatra » Bukittinggi

Djarum black

When I first arrived in Indonesia there were little signs on all the tables in Balinese restaurants that just said "L.A. Lights". I had no idea what they were advertising. It was about two weeks before I realized they were a type of cigarette. Every single male over the age of six months smokes in Indonesia, and there are cigarette advertisements everywhere, although interestingly all of them also have the health warnings in smaller print along the bottom. I find many of them very amusing (especially as few seem to have anything to do with smoking), so spent some time in [View Full Entry]

runner-up for most nonsensical slogan: Absolute

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