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Greetings from the Executive Director: December 2020
It’s that time of the year to look back and reflect on what has been achieved during the past 12 months and what remains undone. One thing for sure is that 2020 will forever be remembered both here and elsewhere when well-laid plans went astray as a result of the...
Surat dari Pejompongan: Suasana
Bung, Saya tengah membaca puisi-puisi Tomas Tranströmer. Buku puisinya New Collected Poems terbitan Bloodax Books (2017), terjemahan Robin Fulton, baru saya bisa beli beberapa bulan lalu. Baru separuh jalan. Mungkin pembacaan ini tampak terlambat, tetapi, tidak...
Ruminations by John McGlynn: Pain, Fun, Fear, and Devotion
In the Catholic Church, each month of the year is dedicated to a particular devotion: January to The Holy Name of Jesus, February to The Holy Family, March to Saint Joseph, and so on, but the one I remember most clearly is October, which is dedicated to The Holy...
Greetings from the Executive Director: February 2020
First-time visitors to Indonesia, who take the trouble to study Indonesian at language centers in Yogyakarta and elsewhere, often find themselves befuddled when they get the chance to test their newly-acquired language skills. To their dismay, what they have learned...
Greetings from the Executive Director: January 2020
Nadiem Makarim, Minister of Education and Culture, seems to take pleasure in shocking fellow Indonesians, particularly conservative-minded parents and educators with his out-of-the-box suggestions on altering and improving current schooling and learning methods. At...
Greetings from the Executive Director: November 2019
Storytelling has come a long way since the bygone days when people – young and old – used to sit around a venerable figure under a big banyan tree and listen rapturously to exciting tales of heroism, adventure and mystery. Oral storytelling was and remains in a few...