Indonesian War of Independence
The Indonesian War of Independence Interesting Youtube series on the Indonesian War of Independence and the Dutch “Police Actions”. Prologue 1945 – Japan Joins the Allies 1946 – Kill and Only Kill 1947 – 1st Police Actions 1948: 2nd Police Actions 1949: Death and Sovereignty
Jalan Raya Pos
Jalan Raya Pos – Documentary This movie is about the great road that lays between Anyer – Panarukan, which was built under Daendels’ era. But this movie isn’t just talk about how the road … https://youtu.be/fKwcfExdCx0
Meet Bessé, Holocene hunter-gatherer
7.200 year old pre-Neolithican skeleton found in Sulawesi Archeologists found a 7.200 year old skeleton of a woman buried in a cave in South Sulawesi.The skeleton is a young woman of around 17 – 20 years old. Genetic analyses show that this pre-Neolithic forager, who is associated with the ‘Toalean’ technocomplex. The archeologists who found […]
Walter Spies – German Artist in Bali
Walter Spies A german artist in Bali Walter Spies (15 September 1895 – 19 January 1942) was a Russian-born German primitivist painter, composer, musicologist, and curator. In 1923 he moved to Java, Indonesia. He lived in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali starting from 1927, when Indonesia was under European colonial rule as the Dutch East Indies. Spies is often credited with attracting the attention of Western cultural figures […]
Indonesia builds New Capital City
New Capital City for Indonesia Indonesia is planning to move its capital from Jakarta in Java to a new city in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The move is in part to relieve pressure on traffic-clogged Jakarta, which is sinking, polluted and crowded. A new capital city would also be a way of symbolically […]
HUT RI- Celebrating Indonesian Independence
The Independence Day of Indonesia (In Indonesian formally known as Hari Ulang Tahun Kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia shortened “HUT RI”, or simply Hari Kemerdekaan, and colloquially referred by the people as Tujuhbelasan, meaning “the Seventeenth”) is a national holiday in Indonesia commemorating the anniversary of Indonesia’s Proclamation of Independence on the 17 of August 1945. It was made a national holiday by government decree in 1946. Ceremonies and festivities are held […]