Yogyakarta

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Yogyakarta: Minimum Wage, Maximum Toil

The sun was out that Thursday morning. My husband Rio took me for breakfast at a cafe called Not-Civet Coffee in Kaliurang, at the foot of Mount Merapi, well away from the city center. When we got there…

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The Taste of Home

For migrants who arrive in Indonesian cities from the countryside, one thing is particularly prized when they seek out a place to eat.

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The Case for Dating at a Reservoir

‘There’s a magic to the place – it makes people honest’.

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Finding Myself (and Others) in a Yogyakarta Coffee Shop 

I opened Google, searched my name. The search results should show the real me, I thought. I scrolled down the page, skim-reading the titles of articles with my name on them. Then I let out a huge sigh…