Italy to help restore Kerta Ghosa complex in Klungkung
May 25, 2009 – 11:43 am | No Comment

The Italian embassy will launch a restoration effort on the Kerta Ghosa complex in Klungkung, in cooperation with several other parties on May 30, an official report said.
The effort would be made in cooperation with …

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Absolut Café (Jalan Jaksa)
April 6, 2009 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
Absolut Café (Jalan Jaksa)

One of the only bar in Jaksa with air-con. Lots of English teachers and journalists. Free pool table, darts, cheap beer, Premier League Soccer games on screen and always quite crowded by the same group …

2nd Floor (Kemang)
April 6, 2009 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
2nd Floor (Kemang)

High school bar, really cheap. Music was Top 40 last time I came.

1001 or Seribu Satu or Thousand and One (Hayam Wuruk, next to Stadium)
April 6, 2009 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
1001 or Seribu Satu or Thousand and One (Hayam Wuruk, next to Stadium)

Classy, huge “one-stop entertainment nightclub”, but not so crowded. The music is Techno Kota, except in the lounge where they have prostitutes from all over the globe. Thats why they call it an International Executive …

Asmoro (Jl Blora)
April 6, 2009 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
Asmoro (Jl Blora)

The most famous dangdut bar in Jakarta. Interesting if you want to experience something different in Jakarta. A bit dodgy and not so dangerous, just a few hundred meters from Plaza Indonesia.
“The first time you …

Apollo Bar and Lounge (Bellagio Boutique Mall, UG Floor)
April 6, 2009 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
Apollo Bar and Lounge (Bellagio Boutique Mall, UG Floor)

The new gay bar in Jakarta. They have live male dancers, usually foreign models. The price is rp 80,000 for special events.

Aphrodite (Club Rasuna, near Pasar Festival, Jl Rasuna Said)
April 6, 2009 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
Aphrodite (Club Rasuna, near Pasar Festival, Jl Rasuna Said)

The bar caters to the expats living in Taman Rasuna. Always quite crowded, good food. English Premier League Football games and Fashion TV on one of the dozen plasma screen. Popular hang-out for Indonesian girls …

Athena (Kota, near the canal)
April 6, 2009 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
Athena (Kota, near the canal)

Surrealistic club in Kota, on the border of the canal. Loud Music, very dark and apart from the waiters and the usual working girls, no customers.

Two rare Sumatran elephants killed
April 3, 2009 – 5:29 pm | No Comment

JAKARTA – Two Sumatran elephants have been shot and killed in Indonesia’s Bengkulu province, a conservation official said Tuesday. The elephants were killed last week in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, said Dudy Wuryanto, head …

A deserted Kuta in November
April 3, 2009 – 5:29 pm | No Comment

JAKARTA – I have to admit, it is somewhere far outside any holiday season in the middle of November, maybe that will help create the almost deserted Kuta around this time of year. It was …

AirAsia Indonesian style
April 3, 2009 – 5:29 pm | No Comment

YOGYAKARTA – With a flight in the afternoon I departed from Yogyakarta to the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta. For the first time I was to fly this route with AirAsia. It is called AirAsia here, …