Visiting charitable homes for children and homeless in Malang, with Madrotter and a Dutch tv star.

The sad cautionary tale of Anastasia, her Italian lover boy, their bule baby, and her cuckolded husband.

Short story competition on the culture wars, Timdog and Ross go head to head.

Chris recommends inter-city trains for tourists, and maybe locals too.

A young boy playing innocently at home in Kudus is rudely circumcised by a ghost, or ants.

Two stories of physical abuse of Indonesian maids abroad, in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.

Spew looks back on the May 1998 riots and the issues of mass rapes, anti-Chinese sentiment, and how the rioters came to be judged.

Timdog enthuses over the brothel district of “Dolly” in Surabaya.

Timdog on world religions and local beliefs in Nusa Tenggara.

Celebrity thugs and murderers in prison and on TV, Enrico Guterres, Theo Toemion, and the “lovely” Lidya Pratiwi.