category Indonesia
This blog post comes at the end of a difficult week. Since August 25, there have been widespread protests across Jakarta, following the announcement of wage increases for MPs amounting to ten times the minimum wage. Demonstrations have descended into… Continue Reading →
I’ve been in Indonesia for just over a month now. At the risk of sounding cliché, I can’t believe how time has flown. I’ve been settling into my own routines lately: calling family as I wake up and they wind… Continue Reading →
Dear Future Intern, I am finally writing my love letter to you, to the learning journey you are about to embark on, and the people whose lives will touch your own in ways you can’t anticipate yet. I didn’t know… Continue Reading →
One day, this may be you writing “dear future intern” from back home or some place you’ve never been to before, with mountains or ocean just outside your door. As for me, I’m home in Manila for Christmas, to visit… Continue Reading →
It’s come time for my last blog while still officially an active CAPI intern at CIPS and I’m not sure how to feel about it. It’s become so normal to be here that it hasn’t fully sunk in that I’ll… Continue Reading →
You can find the above map here. If you spend six months in Indonesia, you will be riding a lot of trains. I was surprised to learn that. From my experiences in Manila (where I never used public transport, and… Continue Reading →
In early June, I wrote that time was flying by, but I wasn’t sure if I truly meant it. Really, time had felt simultaneously too fast and so, so slow. The days at the beginning were long, seeming to stretch… Continue Reading →
This internship has kept me in Jakarta most of the time, and I’m liking that actually. It’s pretty cool to be living and working in a new place. Three months in and I can still count on one hand the… Continue Reading →
I was looking forward to the heat. I grew up in the Philippines, and heat reminds me of where my roots will always be. I am also a native trees nerd, so was excited at the prospect of being around… Continue Reading →
Dear Future Intern, First of all, congratulations on securing this incredibly unique experience. To even consider joining the CAPI program clearly shows that you are the type of person who yearns to engage with the world and push beyond your… Continue Reading →
