Prejudice, Ignorance, Inequality

A scene at the animated television series Justice League Unlimited shows a Greek god telling Wonder Woman that people will always have massacres, bloodlust or slaughters as long as there are "prejudice, ignorance and inequality."Ares, the ancient Greek god, just lost a war he helped instigate when telling the winning Wonder Woman, "But I'll be back and sooner than you think. Wherever there's

A Lobbying Bonanza

Indonesia hired well-connected firms to restore U.S. funding cut off after 1991 massacreBy Andreas HarsonoInternational Consortium of Investigative JournalistsA long string of human rights abuses had put Indonesia in a deep hole with the United States, but then the September 11 terrorists struck. Suddenly the hole got shallower.No country has more Muslims than Indonesia, and it is the world’s

Yohanes Hardian Widjonarko

Yohanes Hardian Widjonarko is an Indonesian businessman born in Semarang. He built his career with one of Indonesia’s largest timber company, PT Barito Pacific Timber Tbk, involved in massive deforestation of Borneo’s rainforest since the 1980s. In 1998, it was caught in financial difficulties at the height of the Asian economic crisis. Widjonarko resigned as its president director in June 2002

Terminology 'Indonesia'

The terminology of Indonesia is not necessarily a native idea. The term "Indonesia" is compounded by Indo (Latin word for India or Indus) and Nesos (Greek word for island).James Richardson Logan, a jurist born in Scotland, worked in Singapore and buried in Penang, is known as the inventor of the terminology Indonesia when writing The Ethnology of the Indian Archipelago in 1850, which expressed, “

Murder at Mile 63

By S. Eben Kirksey and Andreas HarsonoU.S. intelligence reports linked the Indonesian military to the 2002 murder of American school teachers in Timika, a mining town in the remote Indonesian province of Papua. Despite these reports, and opposition from the U.S. Congress, the Bush Administration removed a decade-old ban on funding for military education programs in Indonesia. In May 2006, the

Press Release on 'Murder at Mile 63'

Bush Officials Cover-Up Indonesian Military Rolein Murder of U.S. CitizensContact:Eben Kirksey+1.831.429.8276Santa Cruz, CaliforniaAndreas Harsono+62.815.9509000Jakarta, IndonesiaNEW YORK -- Evidence of Indonesian military involvement in the deaths of two American citizens has been suppressed, according to a report released today by Joyo Indonesian News Service and Pantau Foundation. U.S.

Flores Pos daily newspaper

By Frans Anggal chief editor of the Flores Pos in EndeA paper presented at the Conference of the Representatives of Catholic newspapers in Asia Seoul, 22-23 March 2007. This paper was translated from Malay to English by Andreas Harsono of Pantau media group in Jakarta.Indonesia is a country that hosts the largest Muslim population in the world. But it has a strong Christian presence on its

Precisely, 86 locations in three years

When looking back into the many trips that I made for my book, I think that as a whole, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I visited more than 80 locations in three years. Nearly two dozens of them were just concrete-and-steel metropolitans like Pontianak, Surabaya, Kupang, Jayapura or Manado. But the journey also brought me to visit 40 small towns, 14 villages, 11 isles and two peculiar

More than 70 places for book reporting

When looking back into the many trips that I made for my book, I think that as a whole, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I visited more than 70 locations in three years. Several sites were just concrete-and-steel metropolitans like Pontianak, Surabaya or Manado. But the journey also brought me to visit small towns, beautiful villages and gorgeous islets. Names of islands such as Weh,

The Click of the Week

For this Click Of The Week, Tuhu has already make up his mind and choose Andreas Harsono's blog. In his blog, we also able to read about his story as a newly wed. Tuhu said that Andreas Harsono’s blog is very interesting, because it depicts his personal day to day life stories as a journalist, book author, a new husband, and a caring father.In his life as a journalist we can find writings on his

What's Pantau?

Pantau is a network of journalists, artists and photographers. Legally it is a non-profit foundation based in Jakarta. Its mission is to elevate the standards of Malay-language journalism. Pantau has three core activities: (1) Journalist trainings; (2) Media development programs; (3) Feature syndication. It has three offices: Jakarta, Banda Aceh and Ende on Flores Island. The Aceh office runs

Norman birthday party

We celebrated Norman's birthday yesterday at his school and also at our apartment with a simple dinner. Norman was 10 years old. I bought a chocolate cake at the nearby Hotel Mulia.My friend, Indarwati Aminuddin, who works for the WWF Kendari, gave some money to buy goodies for Norman and his classmates. Indar usually played with Norman when she was still working in Jakarta some years ago. Eva

Indonesia's Chinese Emerge After Years of Discrimination

International Herald TribuneBy Thomas FullerJAKARTA - It wasn't so long ago that Chinese writing was banned from public places here and Chinese schools and newspapers prohibited. But walk into the former office of Suharto, the retired Indonesian strongman who maintained these laws in an attempt to integrate the ethnic Chinese community, and a large decorative poster of Chinese characters greets

Inglish - Indonesian English

What is Inglish? Well, simply, it should be Indonesian English. And Indonesia has many languages. So these funny sentences also come, at least, from some Java-based languages. I got these quotes from various sources:Javelish The typical Javanese language: lho, lha, tho, kok, iki- Lho, I already bought that book!- Kok, buying again?- I told you many times tho!- Lha, I didn't know ... how iki?-