The main part of the book is preceded by two prefaces: one from the writer and one from the supervisor. The prefaces explain how the internship program relating the two cities was created. In 2001 Mrs. Mirdayanti and Mr. Iskandar met at a Journalism Summer Training in the USA. They became friends and stayed in contact when Mrs. Mirdayanti started to work at University Bonn in Germany as a language teacher for Bahasa Indonesia and Mr. Iskandar went back to Pontianak to continue his work as a journalist. Together they developed the idea of an internship program: Mrs. Mirdayanti would send students from her language class to Pontianak, so that the students could live with and learn from Mr. Iskandar and his wife Mrs. Syafriyanti. This internship would not only give the students the opportunity to improve their knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia but also to learn more about Indonesian culture. Consequently several German students visited Pontianak between 2008 and 2010.
”Bonntianak”, stories about Bonn and Pontianak
