Linda Thohir
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Linda Thohir
Time-travelling to Indonesia’s prehistoric past at Lore Lindu
The giant Palindo stone statue towers above me, its eyes wild, its body leaning to one side as if warning me not to pass.
Linda Thohir
When prayers take flight: Borobudur’s lantern festival
I can’t remember the first time I heard about the Borobudur Lantern Festival. But this sacred ritual with a majestic view of the ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist temple has long fascinated me.
Linda Thohir
A journey to Desa Pallawa, Indonesia’s ‘houses with souls’
When I was in middle school in the early 1980s, a new Rp5,000 note was released. On it was a picture of the peculiar-looking traditional ancestral houses of the Torajan people in South Sulawesi.
