{"podcast":{"title":"Talking Indonesia","slug":"talking-indonesia-768046","podcast_index_feed_id":768046,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:165729885/sounds.rss","website_url":"http://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-iXi6zWC04tT7faCj-2JySPQ-original.jpg","author":"Talking Indonesia","episode_count":292,"summary":"In the Talking Indonesia podcast, Dr Jemma Purdey…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T12:19:56.216281+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-indonesia-768046"},"episode":{"title":"Tito Ambyo and Jamie Edmonds - Indonesian Ghosts and Ghost Stories","slug":"tito-ambyo-and-jamie-edmonds-indonesian-ghosts-and-ghost-stories","published_at":"2026-06-20T05:25:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-indonesia-768046/tito-ambyo-and-jamie-edmonds-indonesian-ghosts-and-ghost-stories","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-indonesia-768046","url":"https://soundcloud.com/talking-indonesia/indonesian-ghosts-and-ghost","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2342909060-talking-indonesia-indonesian-ghosts-and-ghost.mp3","summary":"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 than the usual podcast interview: two scholars thinking aloud about what the ghostly has done to them. They move between the personal and the theoretical. Jamie's childhood on a road called Whispering Woods, his years navigating psychosis and hallucination, and the way ghost stories kept refusing to let him stay on the outside. And Tito's discovery, buried in a Dutch East Indies newspaper, that his grandfather hosted a radio programme about spirituality, which was a revelation that arrived mid-thesis, mid-life, with the force of a haunting. The episode also serves as a guide to the Inside Indonesia special edition on ghosts that Tito and Jamie co-edited: essays on pulung gantung in Gunung Kidul, haunted manuscripts that resist digitisation, headless soldiers whose presence keeps colonial violence from being forgotten, female dancers whose spectral power is reshaping Indonesian cinema, and journalists learning to take seriously the tree that refused to be felled. What emerges from all of it is not an argument for or against the existence of ghosts, but something more interesting: a case for sitting with what we cannot explain, and for the kind of knowing that begins with admitting we do not know. In this episode of Talking Indonesia, Tito Ambyo and Jamie Edmonds explore what ghosts teach us about Indonesia — and about ourselves. Jamie Edmonds is Director of the Critical Languages Institute, Associ…","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2354,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talking-indonesia-768046/episodes/tito-ambyo-and-jamie-edmonds-indonesian-ghosts-and-ghost-stories/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-indonesia-768046/tito-ambyo-and-jamie-edmonds-indonesian-ghosts-and-ghost-stories.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}