Indonesia - 1998


	Indonesia (1998)

Photos per year (number): 1998 (284) 1999 (693) 2005 (54) 2006 (162) 2008 (14)


The house I first lived in	The palace of Bogor	Me in Bogor's botanical gardens	Kids playing in the Bogor gardens	The old harbour	Sunda Kelapa neighbourhood	Stairway to the Borobudur	View from the top of Borobudur	Bas-reliefs of Borobudur	View of Prambanan's temples

Hindu carving in Prambanan	Mythical animal	The wayang kulit show is about to start	Wayang kulit show	At the sultan's palace entrance	Kids contemplating fighter fish	Sunday market	Dancer at the sultan's palace	Female dancers at the palace	Male dancer in a typical pose

A scene from the Ramayana	The gamelan instruments	An inner court at the sultan's palace	The old water palace	One of the rare basins still filled with water	View of central Jogjakarta	Small birds at the market	My famous first room	Fruit market	Tangkuban Perahu

View of my neighbourhood	My street in Jakarta	My office	The old city hall of Batavia	Old town of Banten	View of Banten	Funny kid	View of Pulau Pisang	Plantation of fruits and spices	A building near the Balai Janggo palace

Balai Janggo palace interior	Minangkabau palace	Belimbing house	Lake Maninjau under the rain	Bull fight	Two kids at the bullfight	Old clock of Bukitinggi	The gamelan orchestra	Pencak silat demonstration	Traditional Minang dances

Dance on broken plates	Sianok Canyon at dawn	My house in Jakarta	Sol Elite Marbella	View from the Shangri La	View of 'my' part of Jakarta	Dinner at the Caf� Batavia	Kerta Gosa judgement hall	Besakih temple staircase	Besakih offerings in a temple

Prayers in a Besakih temple	Decorated Besakih temple	Offerings at Besakih	Balinese in prayer outfit	Kids picking lotus seeds	Mount and Lake Batur	Children near Lake Batur	Sunrise from Mount Batur	Sunrise from Mount Batur	Perahu boats on the beach

Church	Buddhist temple	Bunaken beach	Sunset in Manado Bay	Sunset in Manado Bay	Fish market	Tarsius	Malao birds	Babiroussa	Overview of Bunaken

The main street of my neighbourhood	Jakarta after the riots	A bank broken by rioters	Ramayana show at Prambanan	Ramayana show at Prambanan	Dancers after the show	Bas-relief at Borobudur	Demonstrating a superstitious rite	Beautiful Hindu bas-relief	The famous Caf� Batavia

Dining at the Shangri La	Lotus flowers	Children playing in a village	Paddy fields	Sunrise in Ahmed	North-east coast near Ahmed	Diving the Tulamben ship wreck	The top deck at sunset	Jacuzzi	The Oceanic Odyssey's deck

Greeting us with music	Milling the rice	Village of Pamulung	Old 'witch' preparing the bride	The house where the bride is preparing herself	The couple is escorted	The couple follows tradition to be married	An old man looks on with a child	Steering the buffaloes in the field	Failure at knocking the doll

Dancers in Sumbawa Besar	Dancers in Sumbawa Besar	A dancer starts the show	The male dancers are happily performing	It never pays to be in the front�	Sumbawa Besar palace	Jacuzzi at sunset	Male Komodo dragon	Big male Komodo dragon	Komodo dragon couple

In front of a Komodo dragon couple	Endemic snail	Flying lizard	Female Komodo dragon	The pink beach of Komodo	Leaving the Oceanic Odyssey	Market life	Hindu children studying	Demonstration of stick fights	Crops put to dry in a Sasak village

Holiday Inn Sengiggi	Huge waves on Kuta Beach	Taman Mini Indonesia	Toraja house built in Taman Mini Indonesia	Wedding in Jakarta	Truck ride	A sulphur source	The barren crater and lake of Kawah Ijen	View of the Mount Bromo caldeira	Typical tourist attraction at Bromo

The Tengger caldeira seen from Mt Bromo	Dream beach	Collecting coconuts the old way	Me riding an elephant	Parai Beach	Parai Beach	Boats moored off the fisherman's village	Towing away losers on the Musi River	Boat after the race	Musi River

Musi River	In the heat of the boat race	Clowns on Independence Day	Clowns on Independence Day	At the market	Palembang's market	Main beach of Nusa Lembongan	Sunset in Nusa Lembongan	Huge waves crashing on the cliffs	Another 6 to 8 meter wave crashes

Paddy terraces	Wayang golek show	Action behind the scene	The gamelan orchestra accompanying the show	The wayang golek dolls	Dancers in the sultan's palace	An male dancer impersonating evil	The palace's gamelan group	Statue of Ganesh	Countryside near Brastagi

Traditional Batak house	Buffaloes pass by in this village of Dokan	An old man looks on	Two guys watching TV	Lake Toba	Sipisopiso waterfall	A house in the Simalungun palace grounds	Simalungun palace	Broader view of Simalungun palace	Elaborate rooftops

Top of the palace	Sunset on Lake Toba	Sunset on Lake Toba	Tomok statues	Typical Batak house	Typical Batak house	A Batak schoolgirl is distracted	Beautiful houses and village	Batak house	Batak village

Dances with a doll	Mosque in Medan	Former palace of the sultan	Batak culture show	Young boys demonstrating a martial art	View of West Sumatra's fertile land	Bull fight	Perahu coming back at dusk	Beautiful mosque	The mosque at Sumenep

A beautiful bull	Bulls waiting for a race	Bull race	End of the race	Waiting for more races	Ferry crossing from Madura to Surabaya	Mosque at Kudus	Inside Kudus mosque	Becak race action	Beginning of a becak race

Chinese temple door painting	Inside a Chinese temple	Goa Gajah temple	Goa Gajah entrance	Temple west of Ubud	Palm leaf confection	Golf course of the Meridien	Tanah Lot temple	Barong dances	The barong enters

Tanah Lot temple	Statues in a temple	Me at the Besakih temple complex	Tirta Gangga	A beach near Ahmed	My sister	Mock cockfight by the road	Kecak dance	Garuda in a kecak dance	Young dancer in a trance

The dancer emerges from her trance	Man walking on ashes in a trance	Man walking on ashes in a trance	Bats in Goa Lawah	Goa Lawah temple	A dancer performing the kecak dance	The evil captor of Sinta	Princess Sinta waits patiently for her delivery	Balinese at a temple	Quiet temple

Natural springs	Beautiful terraces of paddy fields	Kids playing in a stream	Gunung Kawi site	Nice temple	Ducks in a row in a paddy field	Lewd monkey statue	Monkeys socialising	Cows in a paddy field	Young boys coming to see the show

Small boy performing	Young girls dancing	Dancer interpreting a deer	Male opera singer	Quiet paddy fields	The bull and the tower	Escorting the dead to the cemetary	Procession for the funeral	Back of the tower	Cremation site

Handsome young Balinese	Young girl being well taken care of	The bull is set on fire	Burning tower	Ngaben procession	My Dad and I with a rooster	Yeh Mempeh waterfall	Papaya tree and palm plantations	Famous bas-relief	Pura Dalem temple

Ramayana scene	Gitgit waterfall	Pura Ulun Danau	Pura Ulun Danau	Offerings at Tanah Lot	Tanah Lot temple in the evening	Plucking a defeated rooster	In the heat of a cockfight	A dead contestant	In the heat of a cockfight

Proud owner before the fight	Shouting bets before the fight	Cockfighting preparation	Attaching a razor blade