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An entertaining and thought-provoking family portrait of Indonesia: a abundant, dynamic, and frequently maddening region awash with contradictions. Jakarta tweets more than some other city on earth, but 80 million Indonesians live without electricity and many of its neighborhoods still talk about in ritual sacrifices. Declaring freedom in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the copy of power etc. as soon as possible." With over 300 ethnic groups distributed across 13,500 islands, the world's fourth most populous region has been working on that "etc." ever since. Bewitched by Indonesia for twenty-five years, Elizabeth Pisani recently journeyed 26,000 kilometers around the archipelago searching for the links that bind this impossibly disparate region. Fearless and funny, Pisani shares her deck space with pigs and cows, bunks down in a sulfurous volcano, and calls for tea with a corpse. On the way, she observes Big Men with child brides, debates problem and cannibalism, and ponders "sticky" traditions that can't be erased.
