DUDE, THIS SUMBA, NOT SUMBAWA!

In the middle of May 2012, I got a job assignment to cover a story about local religion at Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sunda). Preparing everything to visit this island is already making me stressful because it's such a secluded island and the information about this island especially in Indonesia language is extremely limited.

I have to search on all flight website that exist in Indonesia, even the small and private ones, just to find is there any flight to Tambolaka airport at West Sumba or Waingapu airport at East Sumba region. After looking for almost 2 weeks intensively, finally I found out that there were only 3 flight company has a schedule to this island, Batavia air, Lion air, and Merpati airlines. Too bad, a few month ago, Merpati airline were bankrupt so right now there were only Batavia air and Lion air.

Tambolaka airport at West Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara Province

BETWEEN THE SKY, THE STAR AND THE CITYLIGHT

Here i found the light that I wanted

Light in the sky, Light in the earth

And I was in the shade of mother nature

which embrace me under the cold air flow

A burst of light in the eastern horizon

Spilled the grains of gold

As a greeting to the morning sun

(Mt. Sikunir, Dieng Plateau, Central Java, July 2012.. While waiting for the golden sunrise)

THE GLORIOUS MOMENT OF BONTANG CITY CARNIVAL

To celeberate its second birthday, Bontang city at East Kalimantan province, Indonesia held a carnival named Bontang City Carnival at 13th October 2013. This is some of the pictures I was capture during those event.

The preparations.. 

LEARNING ABOUT PUPPET AT PUPPET MUSEUM IN JAKARTA

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia and has a lot of things to see. If you are museum enthusiastic, Jakarta got dozens of museum to see. One of the museum in Jakarta was a Wayang or Puppet Museum. This museum is located in the Old City area of western Jakarta.

Puppet Museum Building

The Puppet museum building was once an old church building which was built by the VOC, the Dutch East India Company, in 1640. At that time, the church building was named "De Oude Kerk Hollandsche" and was used as a place of worship until 1732.