INDONESIA - Expat Contests

Expat Blog Awards 2013

Glitz, Wilderness, and Dirty Hands: Indonesia's Top Three Contradictions

Indonesia is a unique country of contradictions and contrasts — a place with extremes and seemingly no middle ground. Some clashes result from a mix of cultures trying to negotiate as one nation others from endemic corruption and poor policy. Though examples of these dichotomies seem endless, three stand out as the most overarching or...

Writing Contest October 2012

How to Escape

The late afternoon sun filters through the palm trees as I walk the dusty path through the rice fields. My little girl holds onto my hand tightly and then skips away, collecting stones and pointing excitedly at a grazing cow. My baby boy sits on my hip and giggles, resting his head on my chest as we walk together. As the sun begins to set...

Working Abroad

I’m just wild about Hary

We were on a Topside Module fabrication job based in a construction yard in Indonesia, building oil process and production units for a large tanker being converted into an FPSO (Floating Production Storage Offloading) facility. I was the Client’s company representative and was assisted and supported by a good crew of Indonesian...

Writing Contest March 2013

Top 10 things to do in Indonesia

You would need more than a lifetime to fully explore the length and breadth of Indonesia, this extraordinary country in S.E Asia that has been my home since leaving London in 2011. When our plane touched down on the melting tarmac at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, I had no idea what life in Indonesia had in store for me. Nor had I any real clue...