SST

May 01 2026

by, Roy Jackson After one bus, two planes, one train, and more than 20 hours of door-to-door travel, the Global Literature in London class has arrived safely—albeit a bit disoriented and jet-lagged. After settling in at St. Athans Hotel in Bloomsbury,…

Apr 21 2026

Only a few days until we embark for London! Roy Jackson and his husband Richard Orr are excited to be leading the Global Literature in London SST.

Apr 16 2026

Hillary Harder and Micah Detweiler will lead the summer 2026 SST unit in Ecuador.

Mar 25 2026

This Indonesia 2026 Community Engaged Learning blog series was compiled and edited using excerpts from a photo essay assignment submitted by our students. We hope you enjoy these snapshots from the second half of SST. Three of our students flew…

Mar 25 2026

This Indonesia 2026 Community Engaged Learning blog series was compiled and edited using excerpts from a photo essay assignment submitted by our students. We hope you enjoy these snapshots from the second half of SST. One of our SSTers stayed…

Mar 25 2026

This Indonesia 2026 Community Engaged Learning blog series was compiled and edited using excerpts from a photo essay assignment submitted by our students. We hope you enjoy these snapshots from the second half of SST. Salatiga is a small, compact…

Mar 25 2026

This Indonesia 2026 Community Engaged Learning blog series was compiled and edited using excerpts from a photo essay assignment submitted by our students. We hope you enjoy these snapshots from the second half of SST. Semarang is a coastal city…

Feb 23 2026

At our farewell party on Friday, host families, teachers, language buddies, university administrators, coordinators and friends of the Indonesia SST program gathered at UKDW for a program put together by our amazing students.  The students sang, played guess-who games, and…

Feb 23 2026

We shifted into this transition week by celebrating Lunar New Year, Lent, and the start of Ramadan. It felt fitting that so many people in Yogyakarta are marking a transition into a new season while our SSTers begin their preparations…

Feb 22 2026

Our last group hurrah during Study Term was visiting Borobudur Temple at sunrise. We woke up at 4:00 am, climbed a small hill to a lookout point, and were rewarded with this view: We toured the exquisite, ancient Buddhist temple,…

Feb 19 2026

This week our Indonesia SSTers were broken up into 4 groups and given a topic and location to investigate. The assignment was designed to build independent research skills and dive deeper into one of our four Study Term themes: Indonesian…

Feb 08 2026

Since our arrival at the beginning of January, the whole group has been taking gamelan lessons each week with Pak Sigit and a team of capable (and patient!)  instructors. The students each chose one of the many percussion instruments that…

Feb 08 2026

This week our academic theme is Indonesian Arts. Of course we have been experiencing all kinds of beauty, music and culture each day since we arrived on the island, but this week we are paying specific attention to a few…

Feb 04 2026

During environment week we spent 3 days in the village of Pedak-Gower, in Pati, five hours northeast of Yogyakarta. MDSI (Mennonite Diakonia Service Indonesia) hosted us and invited a number of local religious leaders, farmers, and leaders of Javanese cultural…

Feb 01 2026

Our academic theme for week 3 is Environment. This week we learned about Indonesia’s incredible biodiversity by reading articles and stories, hearing lectures from experts, visiting and learning from people who live along the Code river in Yogyakarta, and touring…

Jan 25 2026

Our SSTers learned to make their own lunch! Nasi Goreng, Indonesia’s classic everyday meal, is a basic fried rice recipe with many variations. Usually containing flavors of shallots, garlic, chili (made as spicy as you like it!), some kind of…

Jan 25 2026

A major highlight of our trip so far was visiting the famous Prambanan, a UNESCO world heritage site and the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia. We toured the temple complex, and climbed many stairs to greet the Hindu pantheon of…

Jan 25 2026

The academic theme for our second week of Study is Religion in Indonesia. Indonesia’s 17,000 islands contain incredibly diverse expressions of culture and faith. While there are 6 nationally recognized religions here (Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism), we…

Jan 24 2026

Our academic theme for Week 1 has been Indonesian History & Politics. We heard two lecturers on this theme, visited the Kraton (Palace and home of Yogyakarta’s Sultan), read historical sources and listened to an audiobook overviewing Indonesia’s dynamic history.…

Jan 24 2026

Daily life on SST provides incredibly rich learning experiences, from living with host families to simply experiencing waking up in a new culture each day. But the learning doesn’t stop there. Students also attend language class each afternoon, hear lectures…

Jan 23 2026

On SST Indonesia ’26, students spent their first few days getting to know Yogyakarta: learning to use various transportation systems, trying new foods, exploring new places, and getting acquainted with the universities where they will learn from lecturers and language…

Jan 16 2026

On Monday evening, 11 host families gathered at Rumah Goshen to meet the SSTers who will be living with them for the next 6 weeks. SST leaders Luke and Janie Beck Kreider hosted the event, and students expressed their gratitude…

Jan 10 2026

On Friday afternoon, January 9, after over 30 hours of travel, all 11 students arrived together on Java. Getting to Yogyakarta, our Study Term home base for 6 weeks, involved multiple flights, trains, cars, and taxis.   We are settling in,…

Aug 29 2025

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