April 2012

Homage To The Left

History is owned by the winners and its evidence is clear in Berlin and its guidebooks: the Eastern part of the city is framed as the grey, gloomy,…

Antiquities, whose Properties?

Last week, I visited Pergamon Museum and Neues Museum, two of five museums in Museuminsel, Berlin. Using my student card, the 3-days Museum Pass, valid for 70 museums…

Artsy Bitsy Streets of Berlin

Berlin’s full of classical artworks, contemporary galleries, and of course: street art. I saw many of them in almost every street of the huge city. Here are some…

Berlin, Once Again

It is my sixth day in Berlin in this visit. I feel like I’m actually living in Berlin — I get around the metropolis everyday, taking the U-Bahn…

Back to Berlin

Tomorrow I’ll spend a week in Berlin for a study visit. I’ve been there for several days last November, to meet old friends, so I’m not really excited…

Belajar Dari Presentasi Korupsi Struktural

Jangan bosan ya kalau saya masih aja ngomongin korupsi… 🙂 Masih ingat sama diskusi antikorupsi yang seru di Groningen bulan lalu? Nah, Mas Rimawan yang dosen UGM itu…

Going Dutch

I spent the Easter Break as a hostess for fellow Indo-Mundusians (= Indonesians who also get the Erasmus Mundus scholarships). First came Ana from Prague, then Agis who’s…

Greetings, Groningen!

Two weeks ago, I went to Groningen — the northernmost city in the Netherlands — to attend an anti-corruption discussion and an afternoon stroll in the old city…