Leading Indonesian and Malaysian chefs show, like good fences, good food makes good neighbors.
Category: Bali
Ubud encounters: Pamuntjak, Lewis live dangerously in novels on 1965 turmoil
Two new novels try to pry open the books on Indonesia’s 1965-68 mass killings that remain among the nation’s deepest secrets. 
Ubud encounters: Goenawan Mohamad names, reserves judgment on Indonesia’s ‘next president’
Indonesia’s foremost man of letters and so-called conscience of the nation is “watching” presidential frontrunner Joko Widodo but not yet endorsing him. 
Ubud encounters: Afghanistan for Afghans
Two visitors to Afghanistan think it’s time for foreigners to leave.
Ubud encounters: Flanagan takes the bridge
Gifted Australian writer Richard Flanagan eloquently expresses the impact of the first decade of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.