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...Local alternative acts are suddenly racking up sales in a market once dominated by boy bands and balladeers. Mocca (from Bandung) sold more than 75,000 copies of their last album, while Superman Is Dead, from Bali, reached 65,000 with their last effort. Those numbers are dwarfed by multi-platinum acts such as Peterpan and Dewa, but their success is drawing attention...
...forced upon society by the system instead of being allowed to happen naturally. I hope the government does not wait too long to loosen up, or it will spell its own demise as we move into an age in which creativity is the key to staying ahead. Rionita Amir Bandung, Indonesia...
Just weeks ago, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, 58, was teaching business at the Bandung Institute of Technology. Now he heads the Aceh Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency, tasked with rebuilding the tsunami-devastated Indonesian province. Last week Kuntoro launched a key infrastructure project-a new pier-but he told TIME's Zamira Loebis that much remains to be done...
...Third World,” a term that referred to minority students at the time, was a deliberate reference to the 1955 Bandung Conference, where 29 African and Asian nations joined together to promote unity and decolonization, Peter N. Kiang ’80, who was involved in the Third World Center Coalition during his time at Harvard, writes in an e-mail...
...giants, but their successors gathering in Jakarta today are just half-giants. That is better than dwarfs." ROESLAN ABDULGANI, Indonesian diplomat who served as secretary general for the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung...