– By Meghan Cullinan, ETA in Kendari – It was 6:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. But there was no sleeping in for the students of MAN 1 Kendari on this Saturday, or any Saturday for that matter! All around Indonesia, most students that attend madrassas, Islamic affiliated public schools, were also on their way to…
– By Elena Dietz, ETA in Malang, East Java – I looked down at my watch. It was 9:15 am. “We were supposed to leave over an hour ago…” I thought to myself. It was a Friday morning, and I had left one of my classes early to go to the immigration office with one of…
–By Kelly Fitzgerald– For me, the biggest source of culture shock in Indonesia is not the spicy food and rice with every meal. It is not suara adzan, the five-times daily call to prayer which rouses the faithful from their beds at the (un)godly hour of 4 a.m. It is not the staring and pointing…
