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Three men involved in the 2002 bombing of two nightclubs in Bali were executed on Nov. 9 on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan off the coast of Java...
...that many fear could be abused by law enforcers and radical organizations. "The law is wide open to interpretation and could even apply to voice, sound, poetry, works of art or literature," says Kadek Krishna Adidharma, one of many Balinese who see the law as an attempt by the Indonesian Muslim majority to impose their will on the rest of the country. "Anything that supposedly raises the libido could be prosecutable...
...stands still. Barack Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham, who died on Nov. 3 at 86, was married to a man fueled by bluster and possibility, who moved the family five times before settling in Hawaii. Her daughter inherited that restlessness, marrying an African, then an Indonesian and building a life in Jakarta. And then there was the grandson who captured a nation's imagination...
...which Tan presented her more recent work—that had taken place at the Carpenter Center the preceding Thursday. Identity plays a central role in Tan’s work, which is not surprising considering the artist’s background. Born in Indonesia to a Chinese-Indonesian father and a Scottish-Australian mother, Tan grew up in Australia and now lives in Amsterdam. In “Kingdom of Shadows,” Tan explores how images help contribute to a sense of self. A former Nazi in the film describes how his first encounter with pictures...
...Indonesian painter I. Nyoman Masriadi's canvas My Adventure Ended After I Met Your Mother, above, depicts a father and son standing on either side of a closed door. A mug dangles from the father's hand while the son smokes. A tantalizing, possibly indecent joke is at once advanced and withheld by the painting...