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Spirits in the Night: A Guide to Jakarta’s Ghosts

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Dalih Sembiring & Lisa Siregar | Jakarta Globe, August 14, 2009 Indonesians have a weakness for ghosts. Parents tell their children to stay inside after dusk, or risk being snatched by […]

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Jakarta Globe, Published, Travel/Leisure

North Sumatra’s Medicine Men

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by Labodalih Sembiring | originally published in the Jakarta Globe in January 2011 | salvaged and back-translated from this blog The dirt path meandered up and down, cutting through small […]

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Food/Medicine, Jakarta Globe, Published

Wangongira and Its River Rice

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Labodalih Sembiring – Jakarta Globe, April 2012 Once upon a time on an island of spices, an old woman went to the jungle to collect rice. At that time, rice […]

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Jakarta Globe, Published, Soil/Spaces

Finding soul in siter strings

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Dalih Sembiring & Elisabeth Oktofani – Jakarta Globe, March 2009 ALL THE SEATS on the porch of Banana Cafe are taken. The occupants of the cafe, located in the first […]

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Jakarta Globe, Music/Fashion, Published

Indonesian albinos proud of being different

December 30, 2019by Dalih Leave a comment

Jakarta Globe – February 2010 “I’m an albino and I’m proud of it,” Muhammad Iqbal Michael Syahputra wrote on the info box of his Facebook account. He does not find […]

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Jakarta Globe, Published

Life turns upside down for prostitutes

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Download the Jakarta Globe layout version (PDF) here. Jakarta Globe – June 21, 2009 On Friday, at 5 a.m., Nia Dinata temporarily abandoned her role as mentor at a documentary […]

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Film/Photography, Jakarta Globe, Published

Mourning the Passage of Indonesia’s Film Bill

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Jakarta Globe, September 8, 2009 Like scenes spliced together in a movie, while lawmakers were preparing on Monday afternoon to push the controversial film bill through the House of Representatives, […]

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Film/Photography, Jakarta Globe, Published

Saving Indonesian Cinema Treasures

December 30, 2019by Dalih Leave a comment

Jakarta Globe, Aug. 2009 Posters of classic local films line the corridor leading into a cool, white room of the Indonesian Cinematheque in Kuningan, South Jakarta, where two men are […]

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Film/Photography, Jakarta Globe, Published

My Jakarta: Ratih Kumala

December 30, 2019by Dalih Leave a comment

Jakarta Globe, 11 January 2009 Ratih Kumala is a Jakartan, first by birth and then by marriage. Born in the city 28 years ago, the writer-cum-editor moved to Palembang, South […]

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Art/Literature, Jakarta Globe, Published

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Bekabuluh is Dalih Sembiring, the only Indonesian translator to have been nominated for a Man Booker Int'l Prize (2016). Also a creative writer and journalist, he has been a translator for more than 15 years.

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