By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2009 TELUK MERANTI, Indonesia — They’re equatorial Huckleberry Finns, two wild-hearted boys guiding an old wooden fishing boat along a wide…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, October 30, 2009 PHOTOGRAPH by Daily Mail BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — They are the ships that fell from the sky; two immovable objects,…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2009 JAKARTA, Indonesia — For decades, Uni Histayanti has performed the enigmatic movements of her country’s traditional pendet dance. She learned…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2006 JAKARTA, Indonesia — Maria Ulfah’s father started it all. Even back in the 1960s, he wanted his daughter to have…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2006 DENPASAR, Indonesia — Maringan Simanjuntak wipes his brow in Bali’s equatorial heat and talks in measured words about the fear…