#uwrf19 – highlights day1
photographer / tweeter Suki Zoe’s take on day 1 at the 2019 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (lead photo: Lemn Sissay) Lemn Sissay in My …
photographer / tweeter Suki Zoe’s take on day 1 at the 2019 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (lead photo: Lemn Sissay) Lemn Sissay in My …
Pretty busy weekend what with Independence Day etc, but we were lucky to at least catch the last night of the UbudVillage Jazz Festival 2019 …
Today, the 17th of August, marks nearly three quarters of century of Indonesia’s independence. As in other parts of the country, here in Bali celebrations …
With the current template for mass tourism, is balance possible between the Balinese agrarian life and the agro-tourism juggernaut? Graeme MacRae gives us an overview: …
The idea of holding a Presidential, People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR), and all three levels of parliamentary election simultaneously seemed overly ambitious to begin with, and …
A sputtering Bavarian machine, an inscrutable mountain, buried roads. Rio Helmi checks up on the mountain and it’s people. Mt Agung remains somewhat inscrutable and …
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, …
Featuring the first prototype temporary shelter built – for under Rp 8 million; and a farewell to the last of the Mt Agung evacuees. words …
This weekend is the anniversary of the first mass evacuation on Gunung Agung’s slopes following the level 4 (Awas) alert issued by the official the …
Rio Helmi thinks this, his latest in the series, should be called Under the Volcano and Across the Straits instead, but we don’t want to …