Sun Shine

A moment before the night fall, when the sun beams shined the Akasia for the last time in that ordinary day.

Potret TKI

Dengan harapan memperbaiki nasib, Saprianto (54) dan Risky (20) berangkat ke Malaysia secara illegal lewat bantuan seorang agen perkebunan Malaysia. Lima bulan tidak dibayar, bermodal nekat mereka memutuskan untuk melarikan diri, 10 hari berjalan kaki di rimba belantara perbatasan Malaysia-Indonesia, 2 hari merakit menyusuri sungai Embaloh yang penuh riam dan arus deras, kehabisan makan dan bertahan hanya dengan minum air. Potret tragis tenaga kerja Indonesia.

Saprianto (54) asal Teluk Batang, bekerja ke Malaysia dengan harapan dapat mengumpulkan uang untuk anak keduanya yang baru menyelesaikan bangku SMA tahun ini dan ingin melanjutkan ke perguruan tinggi.

Risky (20) asal Pontianak, sempat terjatuh dan terbentur kepalanya dalam perjalanan selama 10 hari menembus belantara Malaysia-Indonesia. Tidak banyak bicara, syok dan demam tinggi akibat kelelahan dan infeksi dari luka di kedua kakinya yang membengkak.

 '...the rural poor had become the urban poor, and in the process they'd become invisible...' 

(James Nachtwey)

semut di atas daun

empty bench, quiet street

Gourd

Calabash or bottle gourds (Lagenaria siceraria) selled on night market in Kuching. It's almost 2am when we visited the market for some vegetables. I like the shape which reminds me on one my father has at home. My father one's made from the mature, dried calabash. Because of it hard woody shell, it usually uses as a water container, but, in my father case, it is used to keep arak (rice wine).

totems

India St. is one of the most visited place in Kuching, Malaysia. It likes Malioboro in Yogyakarta, Indonesia but without the vehicles traffic. We can buy many kinds of fabrics and clothes here. In this busy street, people walk through without noticing these two totems standing on the edge of the street covered by palm leaves.

Shelter

Seeing the cows shelter under the rubber trees, laying on green grass, looking back to me speeding on motorbike. So contrast but peaceful in the same time.
Photo taken from motorbike, on the way to Desa Meragun, Nanga Taman, Sekadau.

dreaming twin moons

Caterpillar in the tree
How you wonder who you'll be
Can't go far but you can always dream

Wish you may and wish you might
Don't you worry, hold on tight
I promise you there will come a day
Butterfly fly away
(Hannah Montana)