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Voluntourism: a combination of volunteering and tourism. It’s an increasingly popular form of international travel that allows travelers to contribute towards sustainable development initiatives while exploring a new country and culture.
Initiatives often revolve around education-based programs as well as participating in community work with locals to help facilitate one’s understanding of the local operations and ways that people interact. There are many organisations that arrange opportunities...

In the news
In light of the terrorist attacks which have rocked Indonesia this past fortnight, raises the important role educational institutions play in promoting tolerance and halting the spread of radicalism.
Indonesia is poised to become a world leader in geothermal energy. The World Bank is helping the Indonesian government to establish an innovative credit facility to unlock investment in geothermal energy....

This is the third and last movie screened during the Indonesian Film Festival (IFF) 2018 to be reviewed on the AIYA Blog. View the first two reviews here and here.
Themes: rape, gore and violence. Potential spoilers ahead.
The premise is simple. A woman beheads the head of her rapist and tries to report the crime to the police, using the man’s head as evidence. The story then unfolds, and Marlina presents us the pains and struggles that are all too familiar to women, in...

In the news
Estimates suggest that of the 1,000 fighters which have travelled to the Middle East from SE Asia to join the Islamic State in the last five years, 700 have come from Indonesia. Such figures indicate significant challenges faced by the Indonesian government...