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80 Years of Independence: When Indonesia Feels More and More Distant

A citizen’s reflection on a nation that keeps getting harder to understand.

Aug 12

80 Years of Independence: When Indonesia Feels More and More Distant

Aug 12

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Why I Write in English (Even When It’s Not Perfect)

Permission, Precision, and Everything In Between.

May 14

Why I Write in English (Even When It’s Not Perfect)

May 14

Perfect Dream, Street Version

The GDP rises, but the buskers remain.

Oct 28

Perfect Dream, Street Version

Oct 28

Aging Confidence

Confidence doesn’t vanish; it simply changes its costume.

Oct 22

Aging Confidence

Oct 22

When My Words Turned Into Riots

Cherry-Picking the Ashes of August.

Oct 6

When My Words Turned Into Riots

Oct 6

What Daily Prayer Means in Indonesia: A Reflex, Not Always a Ritual

When belief meets burnout, prayer becomes survival, not just spirituality.

Jul 30

What Daily Prayer Means in Indonesia: A Reflex, Not Always a Ritual

Jul 30

Jakarta Is Flooded Again. People Eat Noodles and Move On.

A photo story of life in floodwaters: still cooking, still playing, still smiling

Jul 10

Jakarta Is Flooded Again. People Eat Noodles and Move On.

Jul 10

X is a Mess. But It Makes Geopolitics Make More Sense. (And Weirdly More Fun?)

I Used to Hate What Elon Did to Twitter. Now… I Get It?

Jun 19

X is a Mess. But It Makes Geopolitics Make More Sense. (And Weirdly More Fun?)

Jun 19

I Was Going to Write Something Brilliant. Then Life Happened.

Five things I did instead of writing. None of them impressive.

Jun 3

I Was Going to Write Something Brilliant. Then Life Happened.

Jun 3

Sorry Harvard, I Missed the Flourishing Memo

The Global Flourishing Study crowned Indonesia a winner. I must’ve skipped the sermon.

May 17

Sorry Harvard, I Missed the Flourishing Memo

May 17

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SimpleJoy

Writer exploring everyday contradictions ✍🏽 Observer of irony and in-between spaces 🌏 Simple joys 🌸 complicated truths 🕊️

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