I'm on the last couple of chapters of reading this new 500 page book (Julia's Jihad) that I'd like to recommend to our members with an interest in her progressive Muslim and Female ways of telling her tales.
The author (Julia Suryakusuma) is a 58 year old daughter of an Indonesian Ambassador and has thus travelled with her family. She is Muslim and devout but sees the hypocrisy and amusement in some of their actions that she is quite adept at taking the mickey at some of the absurd.
She has been writing weekly columns in The Jakarta Post for many years and the book is a compilation of those and therefore easy to read as they are in short diverse chapters.
If new to Indonesia this can explain, in a simple and comedic way, some of why 'the Indonesia way' appears as an absurd country to us Bules
Well worth just under Rp200,000 from Gramedia
The author (Julia Suryakusuma) is a 58 year old daughter of an Indonesian Ambassador and has thus travelled with her family. She is Muslim and devout but sees the hypocrisy and amusement in some of their actions that she is quite adept at taking the mickey at some of the absurd.
She has been writing weekly columns in The Jakarta Post for many years and the book is a compilation of those and therefore easy to read as they are in short diverse chapters.
If new to Indonesia this can explain, in a simple and comedic way, some of why 'the Indonesia way' appears as an absurd country to us Bules
Well worth just under Rp200,000 from Gramedia