Jakarta: Stasiun Kota
September 2014 Kota Station was completed in 1929. It represented an era where the Dutch were finally starting to take their colonial...
Jakarta: gorengan
September 2014 One of my all time favorite street foods from the Indonesia years was "gorengan" (literally, "fried stuff"). I always...
Bukittinggi, West Sumatra
April 1997 One of our favorite places in Indonesia was the Minang Highlands around Bukittinggi, West Sumatra. Brian and I had fallen in...
Jakarta: Cafe Batavia
Taman Fatahillah main dining room Sate down to the lobby. September 2014 Cafe Batavia was a total sensation in Jakarta in the mid to...
Bakalan: Reog
Bakalan, Central Java. March 1997 My friends in Bakalan, right on the border of Central and East Java, told me that there would be a...
Central Java: Candi Sewu
Candi Sewu, Central Java, Indonesia. April 2016 The Prambanan Plain under the ever-erupting Mt Merapi in Java is strewn with temples. ...
Pontianak, Kalimantan
Kapuas River, Pontianak. February 1997 Equator Monument, Pontianak. February 1997 (with Irfan my ex-student) The start of the Big...
