‘The Amazing Race’ visits a different “running of the bulls” in Madura, East Java.

A new full-service airline, Pacific Royale, takes off.

The many new routes that Garuda plans to fly, one day.

‘The Retreat’ by J. Eijkelboom, Part III. Continued from parts 1 and 2.

City of culture, Yogyakarta, takes home the coveted Green Region awards for 2011.

‘The Retreat’ by J. Eijkelboom, Part II, continued from Part 1.

I have translated part of a story entitled “The Clan” in which Willem Walraven tells us about his Indonesian in-laws. In the part I have translated we are told how he met his Sundanese wife Itih.

Is there any non-Indonesian song that has the name of an Indonesian city in its very title? The only one I can think of (and if it is not the only one it is certainly the most famous one) is Brecht and Weill’s “Surabaya Johnny”.

Duty/tax-free shopping for tourists is coming to Indonesia, sort of.

Plans to install CCTV surveillance cameras in the red light district of Surabaya, Dolly, as the noose tightens around it.