Tapak dara in the morning

First morning beam

Stone Breaker

Sunset in Tomajo

there's never a same sunset. The sunset in Tomajo island is one of the most beautiful and heartwarming sunset I ever saw. Seeing the single coconut tree shadow standing on the island hillside (too small to be seen in this picture) gave me some kind of lonely but peaceful feeling.

Hope

under the pier

A friend of mine said that this looks like a common government project, built with low quality materials after corrupted here and there and at the end doesn't serve the early planned function because of the improper execution or wrong target. I can't agree more, development projects in my beloved country still need lots of improvement.

fire in the morning

Children of Kapuas

 

Kapuas in West Kalimantan is the longest river in Indonesia. This river extends 1145 km’s from Kapuas Hulu district to Pontianak city. Kapuas’s watershed area has the highest biodiversity of freshwater fauna in Indonesia with around 300 – 500 species of freshwater fishes .

Kapuas plays significant role in the live and welfare of community in West Kalimantan. Its social and economic functions for transportation and trade shaping the character of Pontianak. This river is public space where people meet and socialize through hundreds of bath, wash, latrines and warung (small shop) spots. Everyday, especially in morning and late afternoon, on the banks of Kapuas you can see the women washing clothes and chatting, the children swimming around, and the man drinking coffee in warung.

Near Ramadan (fasting month of Moslem), people start to make carbide cannons to welcome Ied (end of Ramadan). The cannon made from a log about four meters long that split and hollowed like a pipe. The logs are then cupped back, tied with rattan and arranged in line on the banks of Kapuas. At evening, people fill it with carbide, fired and blow it. This festival culminated in the night before Ied. The sound of the cannon is extremely loud and still can be hear till 5 km's far.  

After Ied, carbide cannons become a playground for children of Kapuas. They climb to the top of the cannon and jump into the river. Byurrr.

 

jumping

The master behind kopi luwak

Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between 1 - 3,5 million IDR per kg. The master behind the production of kopi luwak is this nocturnal animal, musang (civet), Paradoxurus hermaphroditus. Civet forage only the ripest and sweetest coffee berries. Spending about a day and a half in the civet's digestive system, the coffee cherries then defecated in clumps. They are gathered and tradaa the unique strong flavor and lack of bitterness coffee produced.

when the night fall2

early morning on beach

poor pongo

simpur

I ate all of these?

bibi penjual jamu

romantic couple

milking

white flower

teduh