MATARAM – A change of color of Lake Kelimutu, which is located in a volcanic crater in the district of Ende in the province of East Nusa Tenggara is possibly a sign that a disaster …

KEDIRI – Muslim clerics in Indonesia’s East Java province Friday banned the faithful from gossiping and flirting on social networking websites such as Facebook and Friendster. The clerics also urged Facebook and Friendster to curb …

JAKARTA – Along one of the main streets of Jakarta is the anonymous Graha BIP, a office building like others along the same street. It is just a little stroll to the Kartika Chandra Hotel …

JAKARTA – Anther club is located at just a stones throw distance from the hotel discusses earlier, Shangri-La, and offers the same line of entertainment. The atmosphere however is slightly different than that of B.A.T.S., …

JAKARTA – However the name might look like you are attending a game of soccer when you enter this piece of ‘paradise on earth’, it is not anything like it. It could at best be …

PEMALANG – The volcanic activity of the Mount Slamet volcano keeps on increasing. Where there were first some hundred tremors a day which lasted between 20 and 95 seconds, now the volcano also emits molten …

JAKARTA – The later it gets the more clear it becomes that it is not all about the music, the band and the alcohol here. Pleasure is okay, but there is much more to get …

JAKARTA – From Aphrodite in Taman Rasuna we took an ‘Express’ taxi which brought us to the lobby of the five-star Shangri-La Hotel in just a matter of minutes – all of a sudden it …

JAKARTA – It is a humid night – like most nights in Jakarta indeed – after some light rain when I sit in a taxi on my way to meet two female friends. First something …

JAKARTA – The democratic party of current president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono comes up as the winner during quick counts made by several different organisations. The party gets around 20 percent of the votes nationally. Numbers …