Articles tagged ‘Lake Toba’

Lai: Employee Internet Outpost in Kuta Bali

By Nick | April 7th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Lai is a young man who works at Internet Outpost in Kuta on Poppies Lane II. He has worked there as long as I have been in Bali, and has the various ups and downs in the tourist industry. I asked him how things were at Internet Outpost, a place which a year ago was [...]

 

Relief workers in Aceh accused of attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity

By Nick | December 25th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Aceh, the northerly province, that got hammered by a tsunami a year ago, is the strictest province in Indonesia as far as its interpretation of Islam. Sharia law (ancient Islamic law) was imposed there in 1999. Women are forced to were traditional Muslim attire and head scarfs. After the tsunami there were 60 aid agencies [...]