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Tito Ambyo

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As seen in: The Guardian, Indonesia at Melbourne, Talking Indonesia, Broadsheet Melbourne, Crikey, History Today, Broadsheet Australia, Australian Outlook, Inkl
Journalism lecturer @RMIT @MediaDiverseAU PhD: digital+urban+horror. Co-Host: Talking Indonesia. Board Member @MelbPressClub. arsisto.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Talking Indonesia: Indonesian ghosts and ghost stories

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By Tito Ambyo, Jamie Edmonds Verified
| Indonesia at Melbourne
What does it mean to believe in ghosts? It turns out that’s exactly the wrong question. In this special episode of Talking Indonesia, co-hosts Tito Ambyo and Jamie Edmonds sit down together not as interviewer and guest, but as co-editors who have spent months immersed in a collection of essays on ghosts and haunting in Indonesia. The result is something that is a bit different from the usual podcast interview: two scholars thinking aloud about what the ghostly has done to them.
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Talking Indonesia: ‘kramat’ and the politics of Indonesian history

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By Tito Ambyo
| Indonesia at Melbourne
The winged gate of Sendang Duwur in Lamongan, East Java. Photo by Panggah Ardiyansyah If you studied Indonesian history in school in the 1990s, you learned to divide the archipelago’s past into neat chapters: Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms, then Islamic sultanates, with a brief “transitional period” somewhere in between.
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Five Minutes With: Melbourne Legend Duré Dara of Nudel Bar and Stephanie’s on Her Hospo Career

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By Tito Ambyo
| Broadsheet Melbourne Verified
The first thing Duré Dara OAM does when I arrive at her home is fuss over me. It’s a wet Melbourne day, and before I properly sit down, she’s found me a handtowel, made me a hot Earl Grey tea and set down one of her favourite cardamom rolls. Then, while making sure I’m comfortable at her kitchen table, she asks a few deft questions and quickly finds common ground. She’s Malaysian, I’m Indonesian – close enough to be siblings, she decides. When she’s done fussing, she brings out photographs.
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