by admin | Jun 10, 2020 | Blog
The Idul Fitri holidays are now past but with millions of Indonesians unable to mudik—to go home for the holidays—because of Covid-19, there was much dismay this May in Indonesia (and much of the rest of the world) this year. This year’s Idul Fitri holidays were,...
by admin | Jun 10, 2020 | Blog Right
The current pandemic reinforces our belief that you can never take anything for granted. Who would have thought that in our lifetime we would be experiencing such a global-wide tragedy or that we would be staying under restricted house-bound conditions for months on...
by admin | May 8, 2020 | Blog Right
It would not be an exaggeration to say that our way of life has, in many ways, been irrevocably upended by the Covid-19 pandemic. From now on, in addition to the already-routine metal detectors and bag and body searches when boarding trains and airplanes (that were...
by admin | May 8, 2020 | Blog
It’s hot in Jakarta today with the noontime temperature around 32 Celsius and, what with everyone ordered to stay within the confines of their homes due to the Covid-19 virus running amok worldwide, it appears from media reports that this situation has given rise to...
by admin | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog
Born in 1952, I have no direct memory of the 1918 “Spanish Flu” pandemic that took the lives of up to 100 million people. My memory of that disease is a borrowed one from my Aunt Molly who told me the story of how Great Aunt Jo, a baby nurse who worked for wealthy...
