Useful Links – Travel & Culture

Travel ressources

General

• Gunung Bagging : a treasure trove for those keen on hiking volcanoes
• Gunung-Indonesia (in Indonesian) : up to date information about open and closed trails for volcano climbing.
• Tripcanvas Indonesia : a generalist lifestyle website that posts good to-do lists of places to visit especially in Java, Bali and Lombok
• Wikitravel : a collaborative Wiki about traveling. Really useful to find cheap accommodation and transport
• Lonely Planet forums : an old-school forum with some very knowledgable active members.
• Jakarta100bars : most comprehensive source about nightlife.
• US army’s maps of Indonesia.

Transport

• Pelni : public inter-province ferry transportation, with prices and reliable schedules
• ASDP : public within-province ferry transportation, with prices and unreliable schedule
  • The article about boat travel in Indonesia will probably be a useful complement
• Tiket.com : a private website acting a 3rd party re-seller for plane and train tickets. Efficient and good customer service. Traveloka is one of the reliable alternatives.

Sumatra

• Nias Heritage Museum : excellent website about Nias cultural sites
• Visit Nias Island : a great complement to the museum website.
• Wild Sumatra : a local eco-tourism agency based in Sungai Penuh, offering trips to Jambi and Bengkulu provinces. Run by passionated Luke Mackin. Tons of information and pictures, great both for those looking for a tour guide as well as independent traveler.
• Mentawai.org : plenty of information about traditional Mentawai culture

Bali and Nusa Tenggara

• Kalender Bali Digital : an online Balinese calendar giving you all the ritual special days and ceremonies (in Indonesian).
• Sumba Information : a great website about Sumba tourism and culture
• Geneviève Duggan’s website : lots of very interesting information about Savunese culture
• Flores Tourism : a great website by Flores tourism board.
• Asian Textile Studies : many information about Sumba and Pantar islands (as well as Kisar in Maluku).

Kalimantan

• Bombastic Borneo : edited by a Malaysian Dayak. Tons of informations especially about Dayak festival all over Borneo.

Papua and Maluku

• East-Indonesia : a very comprehensive website about Maluku and Papua by Laszlo Wagner.
• Stay Raja Ampat : really comprehensive website about local accommodation in Raja Ampat

Indonesian culture

Cultural ressources

• Pusaka collection : an incredible online museum of traditional woven textiles of Indonesia
• Art of the Ancestors : a very interesting kind of online museum about Indonesian tribal arts, curated from various museums.
• Ethnologue.com : a fantastic online version of a book about the languages of the world. Fascinating language maps of Indonesia.
• Aural archipelago : a great project making field recordings of traditional music available online
• Timescape Indonesia Youtube channel : many short films shot in Indonesia before WWII.
• Lontar foundation : a Jakarta-based foundation promoting the Indonesian culture, in particular by translating Indonesian litterature into English.
• Tantomo : an Indonesian blog archiving Benny u0026amp; Mice cartoons

Bahasa Indonesia

• Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia : the most comprehensive online Indonesian dictionnary (no English translation)
• Bahasa Kita : tons of excellent articles by linguists
• Ruang Indonesia Bapak Bataone (in Indonesian) : good articles by, I presume, a Japanese expatriate
• Belajar Bahasa Indonesia : lots of points explained in a clear way

Diving ressources

• Starfish : lots of information about diving in Indonesia
• Petites bulles d’ailleurs (in French) : the website of a French journalist that often goes diving in Indonesia

The Indonesian environment

• Personnal website of Oystein Lund Andersen : many pictures of Indonesian volcanoes through the years
• Realtime monitoring tool of corral bleaching risk by ESRI.
• Global Forest Watch : a realtime monitoring tool of deforestation by the World Ressource Institute.