Tag: Indonesia
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Jakarta and Yogyakarta: A Trip Told Through Photos
The biggest trip I took in 2024, in terms of distance traveled, was to Indonesia, where I spent a week in July. Since I traveled there for work, however, I didn’t have much of a chance to play tourist—I flew in a day early at the beginning, then took off a few hours one afternoon.…
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Bookshelf: Indonesia Etc.
In late 2011, Elizabeth Pisani set off on a yearlong trip throughout Indonesia. This was no Eat, Pray, Love-style journey: Pisani wasn’t going to the archipelago in search of herself. Instead, she was looking for Indonesia. Pisani, in many respects, already knew the country. She had been stationed in Jakarta as a journalist for Reuters…
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Bookshelf — Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
Walk up the stairs to the “goblet” level of the National Monument in Jakarta’s Merdeka Square and you’ll enter the Hall of Independence. On a Sunday afternoon, the room is filled with people seated on all levels of the risers that ring the hall’s exterior. Adults chat or look at their phones, while kids dash…
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Pre-Departure Reading: Indonesia
Welcome to Indonesia Week here at The Wandering Life! I traveled to Indonesia for the first time in early July, spending a week there for the AAS-in-Asia conference held at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta. My trip was, of course, very short, and I only made two stops, in Jakarta and Yogyakarta (pronounced “JO-Jakarta,” often…
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