Indonesia has somewhere in the region of 700 volcanoes, many of them live and dangerous. Indeed, more people have lost their lives due to volcanic activity in Indonesia than in any other…

Seven days after the end of Ramadan, the men of Mamala & Morella villages beat each other's bare backs with broomsticks, a ritual known as Pukul Sapu. Coconut "mamala oil" applied to their…

Borobudur was built between AD 750 and AD 850 near Yogyakarta and is the largest Buddhist monument on Earth. Its eight levels are believed to represent a map of the cosmos, as imagined by the…