Ross McKay has been living in or around Jakarta for eight years, and previously was a politician, among many other jobs. He graduated in Politics and Modern History, and took a post-graduate diploma in Soviet Studies (on the principle that a good doctor studies disease). |
Become an author on Indonesia Matters.
BIN chief Muchdi Purwopranjono’s arrest by Indonesian police over the murder of human rights activist Munir.
Frozen Assets - good citizens in suspended animation.
Tips for travelling on Jakarta’s buses, the Jakarta public transportation network.
The stance of Indonesian clerics against homosexuality and about curing it.
Jalan Jaksa in Jakarta is going to suffer re-development.
How to self publish books cheaply and easily.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer as a bullying commissar of literature.
The lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals, commit treason.
Sharia inspired bylaws in Indonesia.
Thugs and murderers, celebrity jailbirds, Enrico Gutierres, Theo Toemion, and the lovely Lidya Pratiwi.
The Indonesian way of death is too graphic.
Whether there was a genocide in Indonesia in 1965 and what happened to the survivors.
Corporal punishment in Indonesia, spanking and caning, and attempts to have it outlawed.
Whether the Jakarta Post newspaper is too left wing.
Metro TV’s Chinese-language news service, Xin Wen.
Ross wonders about Ramadan, lazy rich women, and why kampung girls are the best.
Less than enthused about Fauzi Bowo’s election as Jakarta governor.
Ross asks whether the government is willing to bring some Muslims into the 21st century.
Ross complains that the global warming bandwagon has reached Jakarta.
Does Indonesia need a federal system, amid the separatist hysteria of late?
Governor Sutiyoso and anti-Australianism and street thuggery.
Hope For the Helpless? Overseas Workers Ordeals, by Ross.
The PP 37, a new law granting pay rises to parliamentarians.