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Springfield School is a great place to work! We have a warm, friendly environment at our four campuses. We provide quality Christian education of the highest international standards to our 2000 amazing students. Our school is trilingual (English, Mandarin and Indonesian) and we use Cambridge...

Springfield School is a great place to work! We have a warm friendly environment at our four campuses. We provide quality Christian education of the highest international standards to our 2000 amazing students. Our school is trilingual (English, Mandarin and Indonesian) and we use Cambridge...

Springfield School is a great place to work! We have a warm friendly environment at our four campuses. We provide quality Christian education of the highest international standards to our 2000 amazing students. Our school is trilingual (English, Mandarin and Indonesian) and we use Cambridge...

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying Indonesian capital from sinking under the sea, lending renewed backing and a sense of urgency to a slow-moving and politically contested mega-project. Widodo and his...

quite literally - http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/01/15/stock-exchange-collapse-not-caused-by-explosion-police.html

Reports of an on-going study by the Indonesian government to relocate the capital from Jakarta have reinvigorated a decades-old debate over where the next administrative centre of the country should be. But while the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas), the agency tasked with...

A suspected suicide bomb attack in the Indonesian capital Jakarta has killed at least three police officers and injured 10 people, police say. There were two blasts about five minutes apart at about 21:00 local time (14:00 GMT) near a bus station in Kampung Melayu in the east of the city. Two...

The North Jakarta District Court has found outgoing Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama guilty of blasphemy for suggesting that some people had abused a Quranic verse to block his re-election bid. The panel of judges led by Dwiarso Budi Santiarso sentenced Ahok to two years in...

A former Indonesian education minister won the race for Jakarta governor on Wednesday after a polarising campaign that cast a shadow over Indonesia's reputation for practicing a tolerant form of Islam. Anies Baswedan won with 58 percent of the votes versus 42 percent for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama...

Great! https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/google-build-new-undersea-cable-connecting-jakarta-singapore-sydney-capable-18tbps-connections/

Saudi Arabia's King Salman will visit Jakarta and Bali on the Indonesian leg of his Asian tour next week, bringing 1,500 people in his entourage, including 10 ministers, Indonesian officials said. "This is a very historic visit for us," Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung told reporters on Tuesday...

Jakarta voters lined up at polling booths on Wednesday to cast their votes in the Indonesian capital’s gubernatorial election, which has exposed religious and racial fault lines in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The vote is one of the 101 regional elections to be held simultaneously...

Since there is little traffic on this site at the moment, and it's been raining for the better part of three days, I thought I would waste your time by asking "What little thing irritates you the most in Bali?" For me, it's that the staff won't answer texts or WA messages. If I call and ask...

Anyone else nervous? Recent political events in the US, and the speed at which they were promulgated, and especially the questionable sanity -- dare I say outright crazed approach -- of those at VERY high levels of government, make me a bit nervous that a long term living situation for...

Seems the USA President may find Balinese are not so pleased with his ambitious plan....from Jakarta Post today page 15: "On the Indonesian resort island of Bali, building height is measured by coconut trees. Anything taller could anger the Gods the Hindu locals believe inhabit the island...

I ordered some books from Amazon from a 3rd party supplier and now Amazon says they have been "lost" after arriving in Jakarta. They took quite a journey to finally get lost in Indonesia. Amazon gave a full refund but it makes you wonder what happened. Jakarta...

You can see the security footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lxKlhzaR9w Budget airline Citilink Indonesia announced that it has dismissed Capt. Tekad Purna for unprofessional conduct, which resulted in the delay of Flight QC 800 from Surabaya, East Java, to Jakarta on Wednesday...

I'm looking for a quality memory king-size mattress-topper but cannot find. Almost brought from Costco in Vancouver but really heavy to tranship. Any outlets in Bali or Jakarta as I'd like to feel the quality first.

Six people, including a nine-year-old child, were found dead in Jakarta, after suffocating in a tiny bathroom where armed robbers had locked them the previous day. Petty crime is common in Jakarta, a teeming city of 10 million people, but violent crime including armed robbery is rare. Up...

Indonesian anti-terrorism police killed three suspects after a gunfight at a house south of the capital, Jakarta, where a bomb was found, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The raid came soon after Indonesian police had said they were interrogating 14 suspects after a series of arrests...