In this Open Column submission, Radit Mahindro reimagines a more appropriate way to run a country home to 17,000 islands, 1,300 categorised ethnic identities, and 700 spoken regional languages spread across three time zones - in his words, a ‘vernacular governance’ - through ideas borrowed from ancient maritime empires to Mohammad Hatta’s cooperative commonwealth.
We talked with the people behind the Chinese football collective, ANAR FC, to talk about how youth-driven football scenes merge with art, to what it is that makes the Asian football culture – compared to its European counterpart – hits different.
We had an interview with Takashi Ogami, the Editor/Producer/Founder of SHUKYU Magazine to lap around topics that shapes the football culture today, from Japan, Indonesia, and beyond.
Kami berbicara dengan Sunlotus tentang beban eksotisme sebagai band dari Blora, budaya encore di panggung-panggung Asia, sampai shoegaze yang datang layaknya rezeki.
In this Open Column submission, Nadine Sherani clears up the ever-murky proposed solutions of ‘peace’ of those complicit in the complete opposite of said phrase adorned by the Board of Peace, and how Indonesia may be even further from aiding the liberation of Palestine.