tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204598592024-03-21T11:53:54.052-07:00Alpha AmirrachmanLife is simply intriguingAlpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-67328514521421247042013-01-02T03:57:00.001-08:002013-01-02T18:46:02.895-08:00INTERVIEW: ‘HISTORICAL AMNESIA’First published by The Jakarta Post, October 10, 2012
Interview: ‘Historical amnesia’
Alpha
Amirrachman, Contributor, Leiden, the Netherlands | Feature | Wed, October 10
2012
Paper Edition | Page: 21
Three Dutch
institutions — the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean
Studies (KITLV), the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD)
and theAlpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-60970253748820801902012-01-10T22:33:00.000-08:002013-01-02T19:12:58.024-08:00WIM MANUHUTU: BRIDGING DIVISIONS IN MALUKU
First published
by The Jakarta Post, May 2 2011
Wim Manuhutu:Bridging divisions in Maluku
Alpha
Amirrachman, Contributor, Amsterdam | People | Mon, May 02 2011, 9:57 PM
Wim Manuhutu (Photo by Alpha Amirrachman/JP)
When Wim Manuhutu was appointed as one of the two directors of the
Moluccan Historical Museum (currently Museum Maluku) in 1987, he vowed to run
the museum professionallyAlpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-784396142033000472011-02-15T13:06:00.000-08:002013-01-02T19:10:08.717-08:00TRACING THE LIFE HISTORY OF JAVANESE-SURINAMESEFirst published in The Jakarta Post, Sunday, January 09, 2011
Migratie en culturreel erfgoed: Verhalen van Javanen in Suriname, Indonesie en Nederland (Migration and cultural heritage: Stories of Javanese in Suriname, Indonesia and the Netherlands).
Editors: Lisa Djasmadi, Rosemarijn Hoeftre, Hariette Mingoen.
Publisher: KITLV Press, the Netherlands 2010
158 pages
Tracing the life historyAlpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-23129342700681503242010-07-15T08:21:00.000-07:002013-01-02T19:12:22.422-08:00NICO SCHULTE NORDHOLT: DUTCH SCHOLAR DEMANDS 'GENUINE' RECOGNITION OF 1945 INDEPENDENCE
Nico Schulte Nordholt(Photo: Alpha Amirrachman/JP)
First published in The Jakarta Post, July 8, 2010Nico Schulte Nordholt: Dutch scholar demands ‘genuine’ recognition of 1945 independenceAlpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Leiden | Thu, 07/08/2010 9:18 AM | PeopleWhen Nico Schulte Nordholt and other prominent Dutch intellectuals signed and launched a petition demanding that the Dutch government Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-72316554286560341012010-07-15T08:02:00.000-07:002013-01-02T19:20:14.339-08:00MINTARDJO: INDONESIAN AT HEART
Mintardjo (Photo by Alpha Amirrachman/JP)
First published in The Jakarta Post, March 30, 2010
Mintardjo: Indonesian at heart
Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Oegstgeest, the Netherlands | Tue, 03/30/2010 8:51 AM | Life
When young Mintardjo was sent to Helsinki, Finland, to attend the 1962 communist World Youth Festival and later to communist Romania to study, little did he know he Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-85771874866304739782009-01-04T21:04:00.000-08:002013-01-02T19:14:38.629-08:00CHALIK HAMID: POETIC LOVE OF COUNTRY LIVES ON
Chalik Hamid(Photo by Alpha Amirrachman/JP)
Firts published in The Jakarta Post, Monday, January 5, 2009 11:24 AM
CHALIK HAMID: POETIC LOVE OF COUNTRY LIVES ON
Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Diemen, the Netherlands | Mon, 01/05/2009 11:06 AM | Lifestyle
When poet Chalik Hamid left Indonesia on Feb. 4, 1965, to study journalism in Albania, he had no idea he would not return for 30 Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-51844823234085215322008-10-19T23:29:00.000-07:002013-01-02T19:15:25.037-08:00EMHA AINUN NAJIB: DELIVERING THE MESSAGE OF PEACE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE NETHERLANDS
Emha Ainun Najib(Photo by Alpha Amirrachman/JP)
First published in The Jakarta Post, October 18, 2008
EMHA AINUN NAJIB: DELIVERING THE MESSAGE OF PEACE
Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Deventer, the Netherlands | Sat, 10/18/2008 11:16 AM | People
When a group of priests from the Dutch Protestant Church approached renowned Indonesian poet and Muslim scholar Emha Ainun Najib to ask him Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-9327096628261625292008-06-12T00:32:00.000-07:002013-01-02T19:16:52.581-08:00PERSONAL GROWTH COURSE TRAVELS TO THE NETHERLANDS
Photo by Alpha Amirrachmman/JP
First published in The Jakarta Post, Thursday, June 12, 2008
PERSONAL GROWTH COURSE TRAVELS TO THE NETHERLANDS
Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Delft, the Netherlands | Thu, 06/12/2008 10:18 AM | Potpourri
In a time when competition is high and a hedonistic way of life sometimes pervasive, a training program recently tried to inject new spirit Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-36885048390840213212008-05-18T09:28:00.000-07:002010-07-27T16:40:44.969-07:00SPRINGTIME SPLENDOR IN KEUKENHOF First published in The Jakarta Post, Sunday, May 18, 2008 SPRINGTIME SPLENDOR IN KEUKENHOF Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Lisse, the Netherlands The world-famous spring garden Keukenhof, also known as the Garden of Europe, offers the visitors more than 4.5 million tulips just an hour outside of Amsterdam. It takes about an hour to get there from the city, and with a Combi-ticketAlpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-62417698050013633792008-04-19T01:37:00.000-07:002010-07-27T16:41:33.980-07:00TATI WIRAHADIRAKSA: PROMOTING MULTICULTURALISM THROUGH FILM IN THE NETHERLANDSFirst published in The Jakarta Post, Saturday, April 19, 2008 TATI WIRAHADIRAKSA: PROMOTING MULTICULTURALISM THROUGH FILM IN THE NETHERLANDS Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, the Netherlands Tati Wirahadiraksa could not hide her excitement upon hearing her documentary film had been chosen to be screened at the Amsterdam CinemAsia Film Festival recently. The festival, which screens moreAlpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-34329165786197914152008-04-19T00:37:00.000-07:002010-07-27T16:43:01.874-07:00DUTCH 'CINEMASIA' FILM FESTIVAL BRIDGES CULTURAL DIVIDE First published in The Jakarta Post, Saturday, April 19, 2008 DUTCH 'CINEMASIA' FILM FESTIVAL BRIDGES CULTURAL DIVIDE Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Amsterdam It was timely for the "CinemAsia" film festival to screen Asian movies in the Netherlands (April 2-13) -- a country where multiculturalism has recently faced a deep crisis due to Geert Wilders' anti-Islam Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-15496448215416114462008-04-04T16:51:00.000-07:002010-07-27T16:43:48.555-07:00TRACING VAN GOGH’S LEGACY: HIS WORKS AND TRAGIC LIFE First published in The Jakarta Post, Saturday, April 05, 2008TRACING VAN GOGH’S LEGACY: HIS WORKS AND TRAGIC LIFEAlpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsWhen my colleagues invited me on a tour of the Van Gogh Museum, I immediately accepted the invitation. I have always wanted to see Vincent van Gogh's original masterpieces that symbolized the important Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-53940274678445899792008-03-31T13:23:00.000-07:002010-07-27T16:44:29.565-07:00GERRY VAN KLINKEN: FROM PHYSICS TO POLITICS: ALL FOR INDONESIAFirst published in The Jakarta Post, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 GERRY VAN KLINKEN: FROM PHYSICS TO POLITICS: ALL FOR INDONESIA Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Leiden, the Netherlands Making a switch from geology to Asian studies may not be the conventional path for an academic to take, but a fascination with Indonesian politics was enough for Gerry van Klinken. Now a research Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-73549418826733094562008-03-27T10:17:00.000-07:002008-06-01T11:19:14.340-07:00WILDERS' MOVIE ALL ABOUT DUTCH POLITICSFirst published in The Jakarta Post, Thursday, March 27, 2008 WILDERS' MOVIE ALL ABOUT DUTCH POLITICS Alpha Amirrachman, Amsterdam The debate on whether or not right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders should release the anti-Koran movie has taken a new twist recently, as a prominent Dutch Jewish figure, Harry de Winter, says Wilders' statements are on the same level as anti-Semitism.Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-67138170516232822382008-02-15T03:36:00.000-08:002008-06-01T11:21:46.084-07:00ZUHAIRI MISRAWI: PROMOTING RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE, PLURALISM First published in The Jakarta Post, February 14, 2008ZUHAIRI MISRAWI: PROMOTING RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE, PLURALISMAlpha Amirrachman, Contributor, JakartaIt was during his university days at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, that young Muslim intellectual Zuhari Misrawi learned both the practical and philosophical essence of religious tolerance.When he and his colleagues visited Egypt's Catholic Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-43312060248936047752008-02-11T09:03:00.000-08:002008-06-01T11:24:41.986-07:00AUSTRALIAN JOURNALISTS GIVEN NEW INSIGHTS INTO INDONESIAFirst published in The Jakarta Post, February 11, 2008 AUSTRALIAN JOURNALISTS GIVEN NEW INSIGHTS INTO INDONESIA Organized by the Australian Consortium of In-Country Indonesia Studies (ACICIS), in partnership with Atma Jaya University, a group of Australian university students are on a six-week Journalism Professional Practicum in Jakarta. The program is designed to provide them with a Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-84504813268130735832008-01-30T03:43:00.001-08:002008-10-28T15:06:38.142-07:00BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS LEND EARS, HEARTS TO COUNSEL OTHERSFirst published in The Jakarta Post, January 30, 2008BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS LEND EARS, HEARTS TO COUNSEL OTHERS Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, JakartaWhen Supraptini was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1986 she felt as if she had been sentenced to death. "I was two month's pregnant," she told The Jakarta Post. "My doctor gave my family a difficult choice: save the mother or save the baby. But Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-10256721733774952032008-01-30T03:38:00.000-08:002008-10-28T15:07:18.903-07:00EARLY DETECTION KEY TO SUCCESSFUL TREATMENTFirst published in The Jakarta Post, January 30, 2008 EARLY DETECTION KEY TO SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT One day when Nuraini was taking a shower, she felt a hard lump on her left breast. It was like a tiny, moving ball trying to break out from below the skin. She went to visit a doctor at a nearby Puskesmas (community health center) and was told the lump was nothing to worry about. Luckily her Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-70712216000612421762007-12-23T23:29:00.000-08:002008-04-03T02:02:54.026-07:00INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IS 'THE KEY' TO A MORE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETYFirst published in The Jakarta Post, December 24, 2007INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IS 'THE KEY' TO A MORE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY Mitra Netra Foundation director Bambang Basuki demonstrated the computer skills of his visually impaired colleagues at an event at the Presidential Palace on Dec. 6, marking the International Day for Persons with Disabilities. The foundation is an NGO that aims to provide servicesAlpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-79102223621625974902007-12-23T03:13:00.000-08:002008-04-03T02:06:40.292-07:00PAULINA PANNEN: ICT ENABLES OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNINGFirst published in The Jakarta Post, December 23, 2007PAULINA PANNEN: ICT ENABLES OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING The National Education Ministry's ICT Center of Education (Pustekkom) conducted the 6th International Symposium on Open, Distance and E-Learning (ISODEL 2007) from Nov. 13-15 in Kuta, Bali. The Jakarta Post's contributing writer Alpha Amirrachman spoke with the director of the SoutheastAlpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-837798292867101942007-12-15T02:21:00.000-08:002008-04-03T02:07:40.811-07:00BAMBANG BASUKI: URGING SOCIETY TO RETHINK DISABILITYFirst published in The Jakarta Post, December 15, 2007 BAMBANG BASUKI: URGING SOCIETY TO RETHINK DISABILITYAlpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Jakarta"Discrimination is cruel," recalled Mitra Netra Foundation chairman Bambang Basuki. Bambang experienced a gradual decline in his vision from his last year of senior high school onward due to glaucoma and the degeneration of the cataract. He said societyAlpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-58329651947245679552007-12-05T00:50:00.000-08:002008-04-03T02:09:54.792-07:00M. QURAISH SHIHAB: PROMOTING WISDOM, SCIENCE AND MODERATIONFirst published in The Jakarta Post, December 6, 2007 M. QURAISH SHIHAB: PROMOTING WISDOM, SCIENCE AND MODERATION Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, JakartaFormer religious affairs minister and Islamic scholar Muhammad Quraish Shihab's decision to repeat a year of high school proved to be a defining moment in his life.Quraish graduated from Tsanawiyah senior high school in Cairo without the Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-48060616383483652122007-11-30T03:54:00.000-08:002008-04-03T02:10:31.504-07:00NASR HAMID ABU ZAYD: A CRITICAL THEOLOGIST FIGHTING FOR JUSTICEFirst published in The Jakarta Post, November 30, 2007 NASR HAMID ABU ZAYD: A CRITICAL THEOLOGIST FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Jakarta Liberal Egyptian Koranic scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd had no idea his presence here in Indonesia for a seminar would offend hard-line Muslim groups. Under pressure from the groups, a high-ranking official at the Religious Affairs Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-6974051555766324602007-11-27T22:51:00.000-08:002008-04-03T02:11:12.210-07:00SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY'S DEVELOPMENT: KALAMFirst published in The Jakarta Post, November 28, 2007 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY'S DEVELOPMENT: KALAM Renowned Indian scientist and engineer Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, who was also the 11th president of India (2002-2007), was recently in Indonesia to deliver a speech at Indonesia's National Science Congress (KIPNAS) in Jakarta. Kalam, who is described as Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20459859.post-90006296607610104292007-11-26T04:22:00.000-08:002008-04-03T02:16:41.260-07:00'TWIN TOLERATIONS' SHAPING INDONESIA'S DEMOCRACY: STEPANFirst published in The Jakarta Post, November 26, 2007 'TWIN TOLERATIONS' SHAPING INDONESIA'S DEMOCRACY: STEPAN Alfred C. Stepan, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR) at Columbia University in New York, was recently in Indonesia to address a discussion on "The World's Religious System and Democracy: Crafting the `Twin Tolerations'", organized by Alpha Amirrachmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00323912339941273668noreply@blogger.com0