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POJOK RUMPI
The mega-popular Indonesian word "Rumpi" comes from a Jakarta Drag-slang word for malicious-queeny-cheeky gossip. "Pojok" means corner. Pojok Rumpi is Wijaya Media's rumpi opinion page cum media-watchdog. It is Rumpi Spontan is in the true spirit of rumpi sari dewi......"agar machlum adanya" |
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From: <pearsonc@mcgraw-hill.com> The Stranger lives!! Forgive me if I'm horribly out-of-touch (living on this small island off the coast of New Jersey doesn't help, you know), but I thought the Stranger had retired after a short-but-illustrious career in 1970-something. The anthology I have covers a two-year period back in the dark ages of disco when Hugo Jereissati was svelte and Leonid Brezhnev was top bear in the good old USSR. With the Stranger reincarnated as a higher life form (landscape architect), I thought we had seen the last of the peripatetic redhead. Please confirm whether said journalist-cum-Balinese-party-guerrilla is actively pursuing his craft once again and whether his columns appear in a print medium in addition to electronic form. You may be pleased to know that the Villa Bebek makes a prominent appearance in my book "Indonesia Style," which will hit bookstores (in the U.S., at least) in October. The book's publication by the Monacelli Press has been timed to coincide with the total collapse of the Soeharto/Habibe era. (Well, we can dream, can't we?) From your latest column, it seems as if Balinese society has been relatively unaffected by all the craziness in Jakarta these days. That's good to hear. Hope all is well in the Wijaya kingdom. Cliff Pearson |
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