Category: History

• Red Sales in the Sunset

  HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017   WE had a little giggle this week when we read that the Minister for National Development Planning, Professor Bambang Brodjonegoro, had wondered why more Australian investment was directed to Mexico than to Indonesia. Mexico, as he…

  8degreesoflatitude

  August 12, 2017

  Bali, Foreign Investment, History, Indonesia, Indonesian Law, Politics, Public Administration, Social Development, Writing

  Bambang Brodjonegoro, Biku, Donald Trump, Malcolm Turnbull, Periplus, Samasta Jimbaran, Telephone transcripts, Tim Hannigan, Willard Hanna

• Lights Out!

  HECTOR’S DIARY His diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Saturday, Mar. 25, 2017 IT’S Nyepi on Tuesday, Bali’s Silent Day. It is celebrated on the first new moon in March, which this year is on Mar. 28, at the same time as Indian Hindus mark their festival of Ugadi. It ushers in the…

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 26, 2017

  Bali, China, History, Indonesia, Japan, USA

  Japan Times, Nyepi, Osaka, Prime Minister Abe

• Good on You, Renae

  HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali Dec.7, 2016   THE indomitable Lizzie Love, who we’ve always thought would have made a first-rate Flapper if she’d been around in the Roaring Twenties last century, is a very fine friend to many in Bali. In particular her interest in prisoners in…

  8degreesoflatitude

  December 8, 2016

  Australia, Bali, Food, History, Indonesia, Indonesian Law

  Bali Advertiser, Bali Children Foundation, Bali DIVAS, Bangli drug prison, Christina Iskandar, Clare Srdarov, Contraband, Culinary treats, Flappers, International Date Line, Italian economic refugees, Lizzie Love, Morning walks, Mudstone Spa Retreat, Murphy’s Law, New Idea, Pearl Harbour, Pemberton, Perth, Refugee Learning Nest, Renae Lawrence, Sophie Digby, Vue Beach Club, Yak Awards

• Blots on the Landscape

  HECTOR’S DIARY   His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Jul. 20, 2016   Where to start? We’ll leave aside (for the moment) certain segments of the bar scene where duty of care, which shouldn’t be an entirely foreign concept, is spelt WTF, and winks and nods at malfeasant bad behaviour, if…

  8degreesoflatitude

  July 20, 2016

  Art, Australia, Bali, Books, Environment, Festivals, Food, General Interest, History, Indonesia, Indonesian Law, Ubud

  Adrian Vickers, Australia, Bali, Bar riskers, Dog racing, Made Wijaya, Marian Carroll, NSW Premier Mike Baird, Sand extraction, Sophie Digby, Tim Hannigan, Ubud

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 23, 2015

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences    A Christmas Story This week we observe the official birthday – though of course its date is wholly notional – of one of Islam’s leading saints, the nabi Isa al-Mahdi, whom Muslims also honour as the Messiah. In the Christian rite, it is Christmas, the…

  8degreesoflatitude

  December 22, 2015

  Australia, Bali, General Interest, History, Indonesia

  Benedict Anderson, Christmas fables, Croquet, jade richardson, Monkey business, ROLE Foundation, SoleMen, Summer daze, Tim Hannigan

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jul. 22, 2015

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Hannigan’s Islands The delightful Tim Hannigan, former Surabaya English language teacher and scribbler of note around the archipelago, has written another book: A Brief History of Indonesia. Published by Tuttle in Singapore, it will shortly be on the bookshelves everywhere. His earlier effort, Raffles and the…

  8degreesoflatitude

  July 21, 2015

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Charity, Environment, History, Indonesia, Rabies

  Asri Kerthayasa, Bar Luna, Biku, Pirates, Stamford Raffles, Tim Hannigan, Waterman’s Awards