Perhimpunan Indonesia – Inggris
Last month Geoffrey Saba presented an illustrated overview of his collection of Indonesian kris and hilts. His beautiful collection, currently numbering over 100 hilts and a few kris, were made of various hardwoods. This event was moderated by Paul Sochaczewski, a long-time member of the Society, who is currently finishing a new book, Searching for Ganesha. If you…
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Hong Kong based Herald Van Der Linde talked about his latest book titled Jakarta: History of a Misunderstood City which explores the evolution of this settlement through the eyes of its Sundanese, Chinese, Indian, Arab and European inhabitants into the world’s fourth largest megacity with an urban area of some 30 million inhabitants today. This…
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A localman struck a deal with Korindo to sell part of the land. Source:BBC Indonesia Ayomi Amindoni and Rebecca Henschke recenty wrote about the destruction of rainforests in Papua for BBC Indonesia. Below is an excerpt from the article. “A Korean palm oil giant has been buying up swathes of Asia’s largest remaining rainforests. A…
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Online via Zoom (booking is required). Click here to book a place for the event. Anglo-Indonesian Society Members are warmly invited to join the online reception organised by the joint ASEAN Societies on 3 December: please see details in the flyer (click here to see the flyer). Please address any queries to the organiser, MeiSim@LaiPeters.org.
followed by a talk by Marily Van Nevel about her work with the Sumba Hospitality Foundation.
The events below are for the A-IS members only. If you are inviting non-members to the event, please email Dorothy at AIS_news@mail.com to allow access for them to the event. ONLINE via Zoom (Click here for the Zoom link). Note: Meeting ID: 824 1669 0201, Passcode: 856170Agenda (To see the agenda in Word document, click here)…
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ONLINE via Zoom We had Marily Van Nevel shared with us on our last event about her work with the Sumba Hospitality Foundation (SHF). Marily is the Chief of Staff of Sumba Hospitality Foundation. The Foundation supports a boarding school, a permaculture learning farm, the Maringi hotel and spa, and a training restaurant specialised in local…
Discussed on Zoom. Who were the first Jakartans? Where does the name “Menteng” come from? Or Tanah Abang? When did people name themselves “Betawi”?
Learn Indonesian online with the Indonesian Embassy in London. Every Saturday at 1pm the Embassy uploads a new lesson on YouTube. The instructors are online from 1pm – 2pm to answer any questions posted on the YouTube comment box. Click here to see the teaser video (and how to use the video) and click here…
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Dear Members, Welcome back to the Anglo-Indonesian Society’s autumn programme of events. I hope you are all keeping well and have managed to get some kind of break over the summer, despite the extraordinary circumstances. We still don’t know, of course, when we might be able to resume holding “in person” events, so for the…
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