Perhimpunan Indonesia – Inggris
Tuesday October 14 at 18:30 at the Indonesian Embassy and via Zoom Dr Nick Long, Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics,He will speak about his recent research and exhibition: The Faces of Hypnosis in Indonesia
The next book the club is reading is Orang-orang Oetimu/People from Oetimu by Felix Nesi The club will meet to discuss it on November 26. In Orang-orang Oetimu/People from Oetimu, West Timor-native Felix Nesi tells a compelling and wry tale of corruption, ambition and violence in the fictional village of Oetimu on the border between West and…
Petty Elliott, AIS vice chair, eminent Indonesian chef and food writer, is one of the authors accompanying this luxury five-day tour to Borobudur, Central Java and Yogyakarta that is the “warm up” to the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2025. Full details available on the festival’s website.
This was the Society’s July event. The weather behaved, just about, and the dozens of attendees were treated to gamelan, angklung and Indonesian dance performances, and a cooking demonstration by AIS Vice Chair Petty Elliott. Thank you to Ambassador Desra Percaya and his wife Ibu Sari for being such gracious hosts, and everyone who helped organise it. Hope…
The rise and fall of the Majapahit Empire is one of intrigue, murder, secrets, suspense, revenge, and war in a land filled with beautiful temples and imposing palaces. It remains, however, the most powerful empire in Asia that most people have never heard of. At its peak the Majapahit empire, in the days of King…
Tuesday 10 June at 6.30pm. At the Indonesian Embassy, 30 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2BU and simultaneously via Zoom The debate surrounding colonial collections in Western museums has developed in the past decade under pressure of former colonized nations, civil society and postcolonial diasporas.Who gets to decide which artefacts are exhibited and which narratives are being…
We will discuss Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s The Fugitive. The book was set in the Japanese occupation. In the twilight days of Japanese power in his country, an Indonesian army officer sparks an insurrection against the occupation army but is forced to flee into the jungle when he is betrayed by one of his own comrades. (GoodReads)…
Jepun Indonesia in UK is hosting a Charity Champions Meet and Greet. For tickets, email: jepunindonesiainuk@gmail.com
The Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA) is a membership organisation that runs a programme of lectures and other events looking at the whole of Asia. It also publish the quarterly journal Asian Affairs. The RSAA has an upcoming online event entitled “The Battle for the Soul of Islam”, on May 21st, which will focus on the contest…
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There will be NO MEETING in April, due to the Idul Fitri holiday Peter is a retired history professor whose specialist subject is the Javanese Prince Diponegoro, who led a war against the Dutch from 1825-1830. Peter’s doctoral thesis was entitled: Dipanagara and the Making of the Java War: Yogyakarta History, 1785-1825. He later wrote a biography of…