Indonesia
Last May, the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion met in Manila, the Philippines, to discuss the subject of belief systems and traditional healing, something that is practised among Indonesia's many tribal and traditional communities. They have long established a health system that is based on natural resources, but such healers are disappearing, caused by the rapid pace of modernization. Only a few are left to practice their traditional knowledge and wisdom. Their herbal potions have been thoroughly researched by pharmacologists and they have the confidence of their local people. Tempo English reports from the provinces of West Sumatra and Central Sulawesi.
The spirit comforters
The people of Mentawai have long relied on sikerei, traditional healers who concoct natural remedies and perform elaborate rituals. It takes years to become one.
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Want to see PH flag first flown in 1898? Go to Baguio! |
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Philippines
 BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – Without the original netting that held it, the flag first flown by Gen Emilio Aguinaldo 115 years ago would be in tatters.
Delicate as it is, however, that independence flag – the one sewn by Marcela Agoncillo and Rizal's niece in Hongkong – is on display at a museum here in Baguio City.
“If we don't show it, makakalimutan ng tao (the people will forget about it). We are in a predicament, but we really have to display the flag,” said Emilio Aguinaldo Suntay, great grandson of the first Philippine president.
The blue-red-and-white flag – with the yellow sun and 3 stars – was first hoisted not on Independence Day on June 12, 1898, in Kawit, Cavite, but weeks before that. On May 28 that year, waved it in Cavite City to signal the victory of Filipino forces in the Battle of Alapan in Imus, a neighboring town of Kawit.
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Cambodia
 Two 10th-century Cambodian statues escorted by representatives from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art arrived at the Phnom Penh International Airport at 5:27pm yesterday, 40 years after they were looted from a war-torn nation and smuggled abroad.
At the airport, UNESCO officers, government representatives and seven Buddhist monks greeted the statues, which the Met agreed to return to Cambodia after verifying they had been stolen from the Koh Ker temple complex in the 1970s.
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Indonesia It is no secret that relevant information on our history and culture has proven difficult to obtain in many parts of the country. Any available references are usually written by outsiders, in their own perspectives. In an effort to remedy the lack of such vital information, a movement has emerged to bring books to the people, with reference to local history and traditions. This work is now being used nationally as the main reference to data of the regions concerned. To commemorate National Book Day on May 17, Tempo English reports from South and Western Sulawesi, and South Kalimantan.
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