Buddhist caves found in Java

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia | 3 Comments »

27 August 2007 (Jakarta Post) - A story about a remote cave in Java containing a rich set of bas-reliefs depicting Buddha's journey. This unique cave, believed to be the ... Read more..

Tracking down traces of Mataram kingdom

Friday, August 10th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »

10 Aug 2007 (Jakarta Post) - An interesting article about the sultante of Mataram which existed during the 16th and 18th centuries, not to be confused with the kingdom of ... Read more..

Borobudur exhibition in North Jakarta mall

Monday, June 4th, 2007 Posted in Borobudur, Indonesia | 1 Comment »

04 June 2007 (Jakarta Post) - For this week at the Mangga Dua Square in Jakarta, shoppers will be treated to an exhibition on the greatest Buddhist monument in Southeast ... Read more..

Prambanan Temples still not yet recovered from last year’s earthquake

Friday, May 25th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, Tourism, UNESCO World Heritage | No Comments »

25 May 2007 (Antara) - UNESCO says that the Prambanan Temples of Java, damaged during the 2006 earthquake, will need at least another five years and some 6 million dollars ... Read more..

The Many Places of Singapura - Part 2

Saturday, May 19th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore | 2 Comments »

We saw in the first installment of The Many Places of Singapura that the ‘Lion City’ (Singha-Pura) first existed in central Vietnam from the 4th to 9th century. In this ... Read more..

After the crocodile, comes a mammoth

Monday, April 30th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia, Paleontology | No Comments »

28 April 2007 (Jakarta Post) - In the heels of the fossil crocodile find near the Sangiran site, a fossil of a mammoth is found. Mammoth fossil found in C. Java A ... Read more..

Preserving Borobudur’s legacy beyond bricks and mortar

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 Posted in Borobudur, Indonesia, UNESCO World Heritage | 2 Comments »

24 April 2007 (Jakarta Post) - This news is related to the earlier post about the visual art exhibition on Borobudur in Jogjakarta. Here, the story also touches on the ... Read more..



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