The woeful English speaking skills of Indonesian beauty pageant contestants.

Ross finds fault in employers’ obsession with physical appearance.

Another English language newspaper launches, the Jakarta Globe.

Purba Negoro on the future of Javanese language, and learning some easy words and phrases.

A not very taxing quiz to guess the Malay/Indonesian origins of some words in English.

Therry says overseas educated Indonesian women are faced with prejudice back at home and poor choices on the men front.

Indonesian students in Australia often have a bad time.

The Indonesian way of death is too graphic for some.

Ranking widgets for blogs in the Top 100.

Odd, peculiar things about language in Indonesia, and more.