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Travelogue: Postcards from Indonesia
It’s the world’s largest archipelagic state—17,000 islands (more or less) stretching more than 3,000 miles east to west. It has the fourth largest population in the world—more than 265 million—and the world’s largest Muslim population. Strung along the so-called Ring of Fire, Indonesia experiences more than its fair share of natural disasters—earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis.
Historian and journalist David Mould’s journey begins in the province of Aceh in Sumatra—ground zero for the 2004 tsunami. Amid the urban sprawl and traffic jams of the capital, Jakarta, he finds refuge in the old colonial port of Batavia, once the capital of the Dutch East Indies with its thriving spice trade. In Bali, he avoids Australian surfers on his way to the back country and Hindu temples. Along the way he explores Indonesia’s history of colonialism and regional conflict, its politics, media and environmental challenges.
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About the presenter: David Mould, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University, has traveled widely in Asia and southern Africa. Born in the UK, he worked as a newspaper and TV journalist before moving to the US in 1978. His travel essays and articles have been published in Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, Times Higher Education, History Ireland, History News Network and other print and online outlets. His books include Postcards from the Borderlands (Open Books, 2020), Monsoon Postcards: Indian Ocean Journeys (Ohio University Press, 2019) and Postcards from Stanland: Journeys in Central Asia (Ohio University Press, 2016). Kirkus Reviews describes David as “a genial travel guide ... an academic who does not write like an academic.” He has featured in two segments on the Travel with Rick Steves show on public radio stations nationwide (programs 615 and 645), RMWorldTravel with Robert & Mary Carey and Rudy Maxa, and other radio shows and podcasts. His most recent books are two historical biographies of East India Company officers and the dangerous missions they undertook—Mission to Madagascar: The sergeant, the king, and the slave trade (Blackwater Press, 2023) and Arthur Conolly, Victorian Spy (Blackwater Press, to be published September 2026).
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