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Indonezja to nie tylko jedno z największych państw świata, zwane azjatyckim tygrysem, ale także zapierająca dech w piersiach mozaika języków, ludów i tradycji. Rozrzucona na ponad 13 tysiącach wysp oszałamia turystów kolorytem, gościnnością, różnorodnością, ale przede wszystkim niezwykłym sposobem bycia Indonezyjczyków. Elisabeth Pisani przez blisko 25 lat była dziennikarką Reutersa i prowadziła w Indonezji badania dotyczące epidemii HIV. Zdobywała informacje od ulicznych sprzedzawców i transseksualistów, rozmawiała z członkami władz i elitami kraju....

In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still working on the 'etc.' seven decades later, the world's fourth most populous nation is now enthusiastically democratic and riotously diverse - rich and enchanting but riddled with ineptitude and corruption. Elizabeth Pisani, who first worked in Indonesia 25 years ago as a foreign correspondent, set out in 2011, travelling over 13,000 miles, to rediscover its enduring attraction, and to find the links which bind together this disparate nation....

As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani has been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit, fierce honesty, and more than a little political incorrectness, she dishes on herself and her colleagues as they try to prod reluctant governments to fund HIV prevention for the people who need it most: drug injectors, gay men, sex workers, and johns. With verve and clarity, Pisani shows the general reader how her profession really works; how easy it is to draw wrong conclusions from "objective" data; and, shockingly, how much...