Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Conferences, Indonesia, Srivijaya | 1 Comment »
From the Palembang Centre for Archaeology: It is the general assumption that Srivijaya was an powerful maritime kingdom that played an important role in the political forum in early Southeast Asia ... Read more..Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »
The Latea Cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia, has long been a burial site for the Pamona people, who have interred their dead in wood coffins. The practice of wood coffin cave ... Read more..Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Borobudur, Champa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam | No Comments »
Forget Angkor. Sure, it's one of the largest religious monuments in the world, and you gotta admit that with spectacular architecture, sculpture and bas-reliefs there's no wonder over two million ... Read more..Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Indonesia | 1 Comment »
A Javanese stone tablet that was taken by British colonialists in the early 19th century returns to Indonesia. The four-tonne stone dates to the Mataram Kingdom and carries an inscription ... Read more..Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Indonesia, Museums | No Comments »
This feature in the Jakarta Post talks about the different museums in Jakarta - the National Museum, the Jakarta History Museum, the Wayang Museum and the Arts and Ceramic Museum ... Read more..