Jun 10, 2008 | Jakarta Post
Thousands of years ago — to be precise around 10,000 BC — we faced a similar climate problem to what we are facing today. According to one popular Hindu legend, contamination had poisoned the seas and the oceans. It was a terrible situation. The polluted...
Jun 10, 2008 | Jakarta Post
Every year we commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Sukarno; the country’s first president and true man of vision, whose mission gave us the five principles of Pancasila: Religiousness: The practice of religion and belief in the supreme. This very first...
Jun 10, 2008 | Jakarta Post
Machiavelli and Sun-Tzu may have lived thousands of miles apart, they may have hailed from different continents and may have never met each other — but they spoke the same language. They always agreed that all is fair in politics and war, and that there are no...
Jun 10, 2008 | Jakarta Post
Sunday, the 20th of May, 1908: A handful of young Indonesians, led by Wahidin Sudirohusodo, and supported by Soetomo, Gunawan and Suradji — declared the formation of “Boedi Oetomo”, laying the foundations for our independence. The movement would...
Jun 10, 2008 | Jakarta Post
To sit in the cool tranquil space of the new Anand Krishna center in Bali with the man himself is to be in the company of one of the most renowned spiritual leaders in Indonesia. His talk the night before had been inspirational so The Jakarta Post took the opportunity...
Jun 10, 2008 | Jakarta Post, Self Development
For, in many ways woman is superior to a man. Emancipation, on the other hand, lowers her status and makes it at par with man. Emancipation has a “Man” as its standard. It is a dirty word, for it does not consider the potentials of a woman. Woman’s standard and...
