Recently Gede Robi of the Navicula band took some time off his grueling schedule to answer Rio Helmi’s  questions about the movement he is throwing …

Baru-baru ini, Gede Robi dari Navicula menyempatkan diri di sela-sela jadwalnya yang amat padat untuk wawancara dengan Rio Helmi / Ubud Now and Then. Berikut …

Text and photos © Anggara Mahendra Replacing plastic with besek (as they are known in Indonesian) isn’t a big deal for some people. But not everybody …

Teks dan foto © Anggara Mahendra Mengganti plastik dengan besek bukan hal besar untuk sebagian orang. Tapi belum semua orang punya pemikiran atau meluangkan waktu …

Rio Helmi tries to make sense of the ongoing marathon of Agung’s eruption cycle – What is it going to do next? When will it …

In which Rio Helmi picks up and does a very wet round-the-volcano bike trip this week to check on what’s there now, what isn’t anymore, …

Until recently the official dump site for Gianyar regency at Temesi had all the makings of a successful waste management plant: Recycling, composting etc. But …

by Catriona Mitchell   When I heard that the Indonesian chief of police had planned an impromptu visit to the Setia Darma House of Masks …

This is the third in Anthropologist Graeme MacRae’s series about Ubud. This time he looks at the special kind of Ubud jam that you can’t …

To the many impoverished inhabitants of other islands of Indonesia, particularly the landless of East Java across the narrow strait in both rural and urban …