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Contributors/Writers Profile

Graeme MacRae (G.S.Macrae@massey.ac.nz ) teaches Social Anthropology at Massey University Auckland, New Zealand. He has been researching in Bali since 1993 and has published on a wide range of topics. Nowadays he tries to make his research useful by focusing on sustainable development projects. In his spare time he grows organic fruit and vegetables.

Kuntayuni

Kuntayuni was born in 1984, in Denpasar. Used to be active in “Akademika”,
student press organisation in Udayana University and graduated from English
Department Faculty of Letters Udayana Univ. in 2007.
Michelle Chin

Michelle Chin is a writer and arts management consultant based in Ubud.
She has been living in Bali for most of the past twenty years.

Susi Johnston
Susi Johnston is an art historian and writer based in Bali. She has been writing about Indonesian history, art, literature and culture for the past twelve years, and has had her work published in magazines, newspapers and books around the world. She is the author of Bali Chic (Editions Didier Millet), and is currently working on a book about pioneering western “buccaneers” who travelled and traded in the more remote parts of Indonesia in the 1970s and 1980s, looking for tribal art, treasure and adventure.

Wayan Ari and Gin Simpson
Wayan Ari is from Sibetan village and Gin Simpson is an Australian volunteer working with the communities (see www.jed.or.id or email jed @ wisnu.or.id)

Elizabeth Rhoads
Elizabeth Rhoads (erhoads @ brynmawr .edu) is a senior anthropology student at Bryn Mawr College, writing her senior thesis on the Balinese identity discourse Ajeg Bali.

Ann Bouwma
Ann Bouwma works as a journalist (culture and art, social issues, travel) and writer (novel: De Aarzeling, 2006) in Amsterdam.

Gusti Ngurah Putu Sidarta Wijaya
Gusti Ngurah Putu Sidarta Wijaya was born in 1983, in a little village called Sibanggede, Badung, Bali. Graduated from English Department Udayana University in 2005, adventuring from one occupation to another, and finally end up in Baliwww.com, writing articles for this Blog.

Don Bennett
Don Bennett is building a home in Simbuwuk Pejeng Kaja, where he and his wife of 40 years will reside for half the year (the dry season). Don and Sue is new members of the Ubud Rotary, and fundraises for the Ubud Schools Project when they are back in San Francisco California USA. Both travels extensively as their daughter and family lives in Madrid Spain.

Don was a high tech exec, in Silicon Valley until his retirement in 2001. Sue is still active in selling real estate on the San Francisco peninsula. Both are 4th generation Californians.

Mary Bartnikowski
Mary Bartnikowski is an author and professional Photographer. Her book, Everyday Naked is available on Amazon. She has lead programs for Stanford University, Apple Computer, Intel, the Nepal Youth Foundation, and for non-profit foundations in Villa de Leyva, Columbia. She has also written, directed, and starred in both a short film and a stage play. For more info see her web site.

www.bartnikowski.com

Rachel Greaves
Rachel Greaves’ childhood dream was to live on a tropical island and become a writer. She defied the ‘safe’ advice of her careers teacher and is now living her dream in Bali. She writes prolifically for Southeast Asian publications and international guidebooks.

Rucina Ballinger
Rucina Ballinger is a dancer, comedian and dance ethnologist who has lived in Bali since 1974. She heads the charity YKIP (www.ykip.org) which helps Balinese in need with education and health programs and is part of the all women’s Gamelan group Luh Luwih and the comedy singing group Grup Gedebong Goyang.

rucina @ indo.net.id

Ayu Bulantrisna Djelantik
Born in Deventer Netherlands, 8 September 1947 as first daughter of Dr. A.A. Made Djelantik and Astri H Zwart. Began studying dance in the court of Karangasem from the age of 7 yrs and later went to villages to continue studies with some of Bali’s greatest dance masters: Ida Bagus Raka Bongkasa, I Kakul, I Mario and Gusti Biang Sengog .

I mostly danced Oleg and Condong Legong for the well known Gong Peliatan under leadership of Anak Agung Mandera

Gawain
Gender: Male
Location: Thailand

About Me
I travel in Europe and Asia in search of classical arts, music and literatures. Twice a week I write here an essay about my most recent discovery/enthusiasm in order to share it with my friends.

Interests: philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, history, economics, finance, evolutionary psychology, linguistics, Balinese dance. Asian classical theater, Baroque music, modern classical music, Indian classical music, early Italian painting, Persian Miniatures, textiles, romances of chivalry, Japanese court poetry, Chinese Classical Poetry.

Jody Diamond
Jody Diamond is an American composer, performer, writer, publisher, and educator. She specializes in new music for the Indonesian Gamelan and is consider an international expert on the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Diamond

Ken Worthy
Ken Worthy is former or inactive member of Gamelan Sekar Jaya

http://www.gsj.org/gsj/Profile/docs/Members.htm

Professor Adrian Vickers

BA PhD, Appointed 2007
Professor of South East Asian Studies
Room 637, Brennan MacCallum Building A18

adrian.vickers@arts.usyd.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9351 2878
Fax: +61 2 9351 2319

I have been carrying out research on Indonesia for almost thirty years, and in that period have observed the shifts in relations between Australia and Indonesia. My disciplinary background is mainly in history, anthropology and cultural studies. As well as the Indonesian language, my research has involved drawing on sources in Balinese, Kawi (Old and Middle Javanese), and Dutch.