About Me
Ashlynn Hannah is a graduate journalist from RMIT University with experience in print, digital, video and audio storytelling. She has interned at SBS News, Beat Magazine and The Jakarta Globe where she contributed to cross-cultural reporting on social issues and started to explore the stories of resilience coming out of Indonesia. She has also worked as an executive producer at community radio station SYN FM. As a passionate writer, she aspires to amplify the voices of others through sharing impactful stories.
Featured Work
Tetangga: These are the stories of our neighbours
It’s a common belief in Indonesia, as it is in many parts of the world, that young people don’t care about politics. But maybe they are simply trying to navigate a political sphere from which they have been left out of by the generation before them. As two young Australians, we set out to learn from and listen to the stories of young Indonesians—our neighbours. We hope by sharing their stories, we can welcome conversations across borders and young voices will be brought to the front.
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How The Last Dinner Party manifested 'feral hype culture'
For the last few years, the band of five have been dressing up in lace-trimmed corsets and flowing gowns to put on performances full of grandeur and maximalism in spaces across London.
“We come from a really colourful, amazing music scene in London in its independent venues,” bassist Georgia Davies from The Last Dinner Party tells me. Born and raised in Australia, she moved to the UK for university where she fell in with the rest of the band.
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“We come from a really colourful, amazing music scene in London in its independent venues,” bassist Georgia Davies from The Last Dinner Party tells me. Born and raised in Australia, she moved to the UK for university where she fell in with the rest of the band.
Keep up with the latest music news, features, festi...
Jakarta’s Chinatown is Alive for Chinese New Year despite Election Tension
The streets lining Jakarta’s Chinatown are buzzing as locals prepare for Chinese New Year, known as Imlek to Indonesians.
The Chinese New Year festivities are set to begin on Feb. 10 and are one of the most important celebrations in Glodok, an area initially set up by Dutch colonists as the only designated living area for Chinese-Indonesians. Today, Glodok is Jakarta’s bustling Chinatown with lively street markets, Buddhist temples, and most importantly tasty Chinese food. However, i...
The Chinese New Year festivities are set to begin on Feb. 10 and are one of the most important celebrations in Glodok, an area initially set up by Dutch colonists as the only designated living area for Chinese-Indonesians. Today, Glodok is Jakarta’s bustling Chinatown with lively street markets, Buddhist temples, and most importantly tasty Chinese food. However, i...
