In the north, bloody protests left three (confirmed) dead.
In the south, torrential rains and flooding.
The former, I chose to avoid. The later, I had no choice but to confront:
Hell and High Water in Jakarta
April 15th, 2010 No Comments
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Sunda Kelapa
March 16th, 2010 No Comments
Jakarta’s 800-year-old port. Still a working cargo port, Sunda Kelapa only allows piring, traditional two-masted sailing ships.
Cargo is still loaded manually. Interestingly (though not terribly surprisingly) most of the workers in the port and on the ships are Bugis — the seafaring ethnic group that earned notoriety in the English language as “Bogeymen.”
I felt [...]
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Attracting a Crowd
July 29th, 2009 No Comments
I had a chance to escape from the office for a few hours yesterday and accompany friends from Voice of Human Rights Media to Klender, a kampung in East Jakarta. They were shooting footage for a documentary about efforts to provide kampung youth with basic legal training to protect themselves and their neighbors against [...]
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Day & Night in Jakarta
June 11th, 2009 No Comments
Gado-Gado vendor in BenHil, Jakarta. On a heated stone, he mixes together peanut, citrus, sugar, chili, and your choice of vegetables, rice cakes, tofu and tempeh to make a delicious lunch.
Hallway of a Rumah Kost in Tebet, Jakarta.
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