Ashlee is an Australian journalist currently living in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is skilled in print, radio, online and multimedia journalism, as well as photography. She is currently working as a copy editor on the web desk of the Jakarta Globe, a new English-language daily broadsheet newspaper. She is also available for freelance assignments.
Is the world's fourth most populous nation. Almost 90 percent of the population identify as Muslim. It has more than 17,500 islands — but only around 6,000 are inhabited. It's home to diverse cultures and a growing tourism industry. Indonesia has thousands of stories waiting to be told.
Aceh’s Tsunami Museum is full of possibility. Unfortunately, that’s about all it is full of at the moment. The walls designed for exhibitions remain bare and white. The top floor, which includes a rooftop garden that has been designed to be used as an escape point should another tsunami ever strike, remains closed to visitors.
Published in the Jakarta Globe newspaper on May 29, 2010.
Indonesia, babe. Honey. It’s been a year and a half since we first got together and it’s been great. There’s been tough times too, we both know it, but I’ve honestly fallen head over heels for you.
But, I’m sorry, I have to bring this up. I know it’s hard to talk about and we’ve been skirting around the issue from that first smoggy Jakarta night when we met. I’ve got to put down an ultimatum here. If we’re going to stick together, you’ve gotta do one thing for me babe. Stop trying to kill me.
Published in the Jakarta Globe on May 4, 2010.
The cooking classes at Janet de Neefe’s Casa Luna Cooking School give an excellent insight into the spices, produce and culture of Bali.
“Spicy, zingy, fresh-tasting, unusual and “I want some more of that one” were just some of the descriptors being thrown around.”
Story and photos by Ashlee Betteridge.
Published in the Jakarta Globe newspaper on April 23, 2010.
The failings of Indonesia’s travel visa system is the one of the topics of conversation among travelers in the nation’s hostels and guesthouses.
Published in the Jakarta Globe newspaper on May 18, 2010.
I’m currently holed up in Yogyakarta, spending six hours a day doing intensive one-on-one Indonesian language classes and the rest of the time wandering around my neighborhood in a dazed state, like I’ve become stoned on the complexity of transitive and intransitive verbs.
Published in the Jakarta Globe newspaper on May 18, 2010.
Every nasi campur has a story. Six short reviews of restaurants and street stalls in Bali selling one of Indonesia’s classic dishes. Photos and story by Ashlee Betteridge. Published in the Jakarta Globe newspaper, April 2, 2010.
Travel story about the attractions in Pangandaran, West Java, where the tourism industry is recovering after a 2006 tsunami destroyed the town. Published in the Jakarta Globe on March 22, 2010. Story and photos by Ashlee Betteridge.
Parents making their teenagers kiss in public? A village in Bali does so once a year. Story about Bali’s omed-omedan kissing festival, published in the Jakarta Globe on March 20, 2010. Story and photos by Ashlee Betteridge.
Bali welcomes the beginning of the Saka New Year with a whole lot of noise, then a whole lot of silence. Published in the Jakarta Globe newspaper on March 15, 2010. Story and photographs by Ashlee Betteridge
The power of social networking Web site Twitter is being harnessed by an online Indonesian parenting community to improve the nutrition of children living on Jakarta’s streets.
Published in Jakarta Globe newspaper and online, Jan. 14 2010. Written with Putri Prameshwari.
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