The Indonesian national flag is called “Sang Saka Merah Putih”. As stipulated in Article 35 of the Constitution of 1945, the flag consists of two colours, red on top and white on the bottom. The width is two-thirds of the length, which...
The post below was held at a school seminar for over 740 students at VG3 in Kristiansand on 21 September 2017. This was under the auspices of the Forum for Faith and Philosophy, which is an organization where most faith and philosophy organizations...
On Friday 21 September 2016, a young woman from the Yezidi minority was appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador. Nadia Murad Basee Taha was kidnapped from the Iraqi village of Kocho by IS and subjected to human trafficking. The appointment, made by the...
Being a minority in Iraq is dangerous. And no minority is more dangerous for it than the Yezidis. Their own records tell of 74 genocides. And you probably haven’t heard of the first 73. Hopefully you’ve heard of the latter. It is ongoing...
Aftenbladet’s editor-in-chief Lars Helle writes that we are narrow-minded because we think it is a particularly bad idea to spend over NOK 90 million of the community’s funds on a new church in Sola, in a municipality where all...
It lives its life upside down. It sleeps upside down, eats upside down and loves upside down. The kalongen is also an enormous bat – the largest of all flying dogs with a wingspan of one and a half metres. The kalongs, the very largest of all...
The holiday season has descended upon our little country. In our peaceful slice of the world. Not so far away, the reality is different. There, members of a minority are raped and beheaded, while the world turns its eyes away. Don’t look away...
Indonesia is often referred to as the world’s largest archipelago. A name that aptly describes the country’s 18,108 islands (figures from the Indonesian Navy’s chart work). Which stretches 5,000 kilometers east from Sabang in North...
Indonesia consists of 18,108 islands (figures from the Indonesian Aviation and Space Institute). Of which 6,000 are permanently inhabited. About four-fifths of the island kingdom is ocean. From Sumatra in the west to Irian Jaya in the east, the...