Indonesia Portal Blog

Last sunday, we visited a small celebration of the PPI (Persatuan Pelajar Indonesia - some indonesian student organisation) in Cologne. The cause of this celebration was the indonesian independence day (well a bit too late, but whatever).
This kind of celebrations always proceed in a similair way. First, the national anthem will be sung (extremly patriotic, [...]

Works of Goethe, Schiller or Bertolt Brecht cannot only be found in German book shops but also in Indonesian ones. The German classics are well read in university classes on German literature, either in the original or in the translated version.As in many countries, Indonesian students encounter many differences due to the complexity of these [...]

Politics
Governor elections in Jakarta
On the 8th of August governor election were held in Jakarta. The pollings opened at 7:30 a.m. in all districts of jakarta.
The results were announced yesterday, on August, the 16th. Fauzi Bowo won the governor elections along with his with party colleague Prijanto. 2,109 Mio (57.87 % ) voted for them.
Adang Darajatun [...]

Every year on august the 17th, the indonesian independence day is celebrated in whole indonesia and by indonesians throughout the world. Within the celebrations included are concerts, prayers, amusement and a flag ceremony. During the flag ceremony, the national anthem will be sung by a choir.
Also children have to learn and sing patriotic songs. For [...]

With this, im introducing a new category in our blog. Every week, we will provide some of the actual news, which were domonating in indonesias media the previous week.
End of July to August, 8th

Politics:
Accusation against Yudhoyono
The former vice chairman of the indonesian parliament, was forced to resignation in End of July by his own party [...]

Indonesia Portal Gallery is now available

I just finished a small picture gallery on our german main site. You can find it here: Picture Gallery
At the moment some descriptions are missing, they will be added the tomorrow or at least on monday (also the english site will get the same gallery then), because we have some [...]

Introduction
Reasons for separatism
Feared consequences of a separation
About the GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka)
The tentative end of conflict

Introduction
The population of the indonesian province aceh is ca. 4. Mio. The capital city of Aceh is called Banda Aceh. The area spans about 55.392 square kilomaters (about 3 % of the indonesian territory).
It is divided in 10 counties (kabupaten), [...]

Although Badminton is the favourite sport in Indonesia, the interest in soccer is growing slowly.
Every region has got an own soccer club, also the indonesian soccer association is already existing since 1930.
The history of the indonesian soccer association
The indonesian soccer association was founded in April, 19th 1930, by a construction engineer, named Soeratin Sosrosoegondo. Soeratin [...]

Author: M. Tohirin Hasan,
Translation: Marc Koeberlein
Introduction
Education is very important, especially for indonesia. As an emerging nation, indonesia needs education to get out of state of underdevelopment.
With a good education, the upcoming generations can help to push the progress of development of their country by taking an active part in this progress.
Since 1945, when [...]