All posts tagged: nostalgia

Bandung Part 1: Civic Spaces

The city of Bandung – Indonesia’s fourth largest with over 2.5 million residents – since 2002 has become one of the most special places for me in the country, and will remain so, thanks to the five years I spent there for college and running […]

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Killing Time in Semarang

The city of Semarang, the capital of Indonesia’s Central Java province, is the place where I was born. However, since the age of 1.5 years old I have been moving around the country with my parents following my father’s assignments from the government institution he […]

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Banjarmasin: A Flood of Memories

How does it feel to go back to a city you left three decades ago? Will you remember anything? Will you recognize some places? To begin this story let me take you back in time, 32 years ago to be precise. Due to his work […]

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