The Cairos are a four piece indie pop band from Brisbane. Since the start in 2008 they played mostly at live performances, together with the likes of Powderfinger, Jet and The Temper Trap. The song Shame comes from the debut EP Colours Like Features and is mixed by Coach Bombay, nickname of Terry Mann from [...]
Menteng is one of the most greenest residential areas of Jakarta, and it’s still a well-to-do area to live. But it’s shocking to discover that so little is being done to protect the architectural heritage. Despite governmental protection-rules, in this country of corruption of nepotism one can easily find ways to by-pass these legislations and [...]
Where to eat in Jakarta ? There are thousands of restaurants, and tens of thousands of street vendors. The smell on the streets is magnificent. What you smell is actually a mix of flowers, charcoal and kretek (clove cigarettes). There is food everywhere, and one wouldn’t mind eating satays all day long. During our Tanah [...]
Sunday morning 09h00 am and I’m joining an interesting historic tour throughout Jakarta, organised by the Sahabat Museum. It follows a number of remarkable places in Batavia from Scott’s new book Greetings From Jakarta, Postcards Of A Capital 1900-1950. Don’t think you see lots of wrinkled faces and grey hair. The whole group of 200 (!) consists [...]
Gary Clark Jr is an American blues rock guitarist and actor from Austin, Texas. He has made music since the age of twelve and was soon discovered by Clifford Antone, who also launched the career of Stevie Ray Vaughn. He has released two EPs, The Gary Clark Jr EP in 2010 and The Bright Lights [...]
Roman Foot Soldiers is a six piece indie rock band from Jakarta, Indonesia. They met each other during their university study in Vancouver, Canada. They started writing songs in their student’s accommodation. In 2009 they won the Battle Of The Bands award of British Columbia. Once back in Indonesia they released their first EP Kitsilano. [...]
Tanah Abang Heuvel is a hill in the Tanah Abang area of Jakarta where my family used to have a country estate with four houses. It was in their possession from 1875 till roughly 1948. The four houses already dated back till around 1740 when they were all connected to each other and formed the ‘landhuis’ of [...]
The Tanah Abang cemetery of Kebon Jahe was Jakarta’s largest garden of tombstones, dating back till 1797. The larger part of it was closed and emptied in 1976, but a small quiet park has luckily been spared and a couple of hundred remarkable tombstones is still there, in this Taman Prasasti (Park Of Inscriptions). As my [...]
An incredible milestone for Oom Piet and Tante Mil. Both 90 years old, they celebrate this week their 65th anniversary in Ede, Holland. It all started in 1947 in the Nassau Church in Batavia, Netherlands Indies. The church is now called Paulus Church, but still stands in full glory in nowadays Jakarta. It’s at walking distance from [...]
A short five day visit to Jakarta. To meet with my friend Scott Merrillees and be able to finalise my research about family history. From father’s side the family has lived in Indonesia from 1816 till 1954. The arrival starts with the shock that the city has become even bigger than the last time I [...]
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