Word: archipelagos
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...soaring value of contemporary Chinese and Vietnamese art has been one of the art world's most widely documented phenomena of recent years. But if you're a would-be collector who feels priced out of the market, is there anywhere else to look? Try Indonesia. The archipelago's artists represent extraordinary value in comparison to the record-breaking sums trading hands at Asian art auctions these days. And they're talented too. "Contemporary Indonesian art is now on the map," says Deborah Iskandar, Christie's representative in Indonesia...
...explaining to military and government officials why he rejected the path of his father, a former member of the hard-line body Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia, as well as that of his grandfather, a member of the outlawed Darul Islam, which once fought for an Islamic state in the archipelago. In so doing, the rock star "has chosen to help us annihilate the crisis of misunderstanding of the Muslim world," says C. Holland Taylor, an American who founded the LibForAll Foundation to promote moderate Islam, and who accompanied Dhani to NORAD. (It is Taylor's foundation that plans to gather...
...depends on tracking and controlling infected poultry, and nowhere is that challenge more daunting than in Indonesia. Home to 234 million people and 1.3 billion poultry, it has recorded more human deaths (79) from bird flu than any other country. H5N1 is found in nearly every corner of the archipelago and has become so prevalent that the government no longer reports individual outbreaks to international authorities. Unlike on commercial farms in the West, chickens are often raised in backyards. And because people live cheek by beak with poultry, H5N1 can more easily pass from birds to humans...
With over 17,000 islands, the Indonesian archipelago has enough travel possibilities to exhaust a lifetime. But if all you can spare is a few days, consider the microcosm that is Desa Seni, desaseni.com. At this Balinese resort, the accommodation consists of 10 traditional wooden homes, offering one, two or three bedrooms each. Houses are in various ethnic styles and have been imported from different regions of Indonesia before being rebuilt and refurbished. Some are over a century old. They are laid out in the manner of a typical village, and decorated with handicrafts, antiques and paintings from all over...
...That message is being broadcast from thousands of new mosques and Islamic schools, or pesantren, now proliferating across the 17,000-island archipelago. Many are funded by Middle Eastern groups that see Indonesia as fertile ground for spiritual purification. Clerics at these religious institutions preach the Salafi strain of Islam, which advocates a return to the religion as practiced in the era of the Prophet Muhammad. (Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's strict form of the faith, is considered an offshoot of Salafi Islam.) By contrast, most Indonesians, like other Southeast Asian Muslims, had for centuries practiced a far less orthodox faith...