by admin | Jan 31, 2019 | Featured
Home Featured publications Recent posts Who Irfan? Nineteen: The lives of Jakarta street vendors About the book Eni the jamu seller Pak Hepi the chicken soup guy Cahyan, snack seller to Jakarta’s elite The Making of Nineteen Top of page In 2008, Mercy...
by admin | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Home Featured publications Recent posts Who is Irfan? Book Review: The Last Wild Men of Borneo Carl Hoffman’s The Last Wild Men of Borneo consists of the stories of two very different men who had practically nothing in common except their common obsession with the...
by admin | Oct 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Home Featured publications Recent posts Who is Irfan? Community Theater for People with Disabilities Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves – Augusto Boal, Founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed Ekawati Liu invited me to come out to Sleman, where she was doing...
by admin | Oct 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Home Featured publications Recent posts Who is Irfan? Coffee farmers in harmony with the forest A few years ago, I traveled to the districts of Tapanuli Utara, Tapanuli Selatan, and Mandhailing Natal on an assignment for Conservation International, to look at how the...
by admin | Aug 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Home Featured publications Recent posts Who is Irfan? Tribal Ink: Writing stories on human skin Prev 1 of 1 Next Mentawai Tattoo Revival (FULL) - the 2nd video Mentawai Tattoo Revival (FULL) - the 2nd video This is the International version with English subtittle...
by admin | Aug 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Home Featured publications Recent posts Who is Irfan? Merdeka! Climbing the greasy pole in Sentiong This is the second time I’ve shot the guys in my kampung celebrating Indonesia’s Independence day. In case it’s not obvious from the photos, this...
by admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Home Featured publications Recent posts Who is Irfan? The case of Gregorius Rato Top of page “In 2011, Gregorius Rato, a PNPM district-level technical facilitator with more than ten years’ experience, moved to South Amanuban in West Timor to take up a post...
by admin | Aug 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Home Featured publications Recent posts Who is Irfan? The Nat Pwe: A Festival of the Deprecated Spirit Lords of Burma The nat are a pantheon of spirits of powerful historical or semi-historical figures, usually royals, powerful rebels, or folk heroes, who experienced...
by admin | Aug 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Home Featured publications Recent posts Who is Irfan? Sitor Situmorang: An Island on an Island I wrote this article in 2005, for the Garuda Inflight magazine, when Pramoedya and Sitor were both still alive. The photograph of the two men together was taken by Poriaman...
