Tag 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 →
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 →
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 →
It is a little unbelievable that I am actually here. It is also unbelievable that it has been three weeks since I first arrived. In a way it feels like the longest three weeks of my life, but at the… Continue Reading →
The end of May has rushed me–I didn’t notice the wind catching the sails until we were flying–and I suppose that’s the way it always goes. Soon it will be a full month since I landed in Jakarta. Six of… Continue Reading →
Since I arrived here in Jakarta, this first blog post has been on my mind. I wanted to get started on it nice and early so I would have plenty of time to collect my thoughts and articulate them meaningfully…. Continue Reading →
Dear Future Intern, Congratulations! You have a wealth of amazing experiences that await you abroad, wherever you may go! Below, I have attached five pieces of advice from my experience in Jakarta. I wish you all the best and good… Continue Reading →
I wanted to dedicate a blog post to Indonesia itself– a country not often discussed in conversations back in Canada. When I told my friends and family that I was going to be working in Jakarta, they often asked, “where… Continue Reading →
