“Cak..cak..cak..cak !!”. You will hear those piece of chorus is sung simultaneously during Kecak dance in Uluwatu, Bali, Indonesia. This dance is adapted from The tales of Ramayana. Kecak was created by Wayan Limbak and Walter Spies (an artist from Germany) in early 1930.
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Suku Laut (Sea Tribes) which also known as Suku Perahu (Boat Tribes) is a group of people who only live in the boat. They usually found near Islands of Riau ocean,Indonesia. They eat,drink,get married and cook on their boat. Their home are the ocean. They always sail and moving from one sea to another. They only come ashore to take some fresh water. The Locals said that some of these people had choose to live on the land. I was very lucky to met the real Suku Laut. They are shy, don’t like to be disturbed and to be photographed,,they only want to live free on the ocean with their boat and the wind that blows at their sail…
Sea Tribes
Suku Laut dikenal juga dengan sebutan Suku Perahu. Mereka adalah suku asli melayu yang tinggal di sekitar perairan Kepulauan Riau. Menurut warga lokal, suku laut yang asli benar-benar hidup dan tinggal di atas perahu. Makan, minum, tidur, memasak, berkeluarga semuanya di lakukan di atas kapal mereka. Kalau pun ke darat hanya untuk mengambil air bersih saja. Mereka menjelajah dan berpindah-pindah sampai ke Singapura dan Malaysia. Tapi sebagian suku laut sudah ada yang menetap di daratan, hidup modern dan membangun pemukiman sendiri. Kali ini saya beruntung sekali bertemu suku laut yang asli. Mereka pemalu, tidak mau diganggu atau difoto, mereka hanya mau hidup bebas di lautan di temani layar dan panduan angin…Selamat menjelajah teman…
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Banyusurup adalah desa kecil di dekat makam Imogiri, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Dulu kampung ini terkenal sebagai penghasil keris se- Jawa Tengah. “Gara-gara teror bom Bali, usaha kami jadi menurun”. “Banyak bengkel yang gulung tikar dan jarang ada turis lagi yang berkunjung dan membeli keris di sini lagi” , kata Pak Darto ketua RT setempat. Tapi diantara melesunya usaha pembuatan keris dan sarungnya, bengel Pak Jiwo adalah salah satu yang masih bertahan dan hanya memfokuskan pada pembuatan sarung keris saja. “Empu pembuat keris sudah pada meninggal, tidak ada regenerasinya, tidak ada lagi yang bisa membuat keris di sini”, kata Pak Darto lirih. Jadi bagaimana nasib keris Indonesia di masa depan ya? Yang bikin sarungnya ada, tapi klo ga ada Empu kerisnya????
Keris’s Cover From Banyusurup
Banyusurup is a small village in the near of Imogiri graveyard compound, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This village used to be well-known as Keris (Creese) maker throught-out Central Java. “Because of Bali bombing, our sales decrease rapidly”. “There are many forge which can’t afford to stand any longer, and there are not many tourist who visit and buy Keris anymore”, said Mr Darto, the chief of local District. But in the lackluster of Keris making and its cover, the forge which belong to Mr Jiwo, manage to survive and only focusing on making the Keris cover. “The masters who make Keris are already passed away, today’s generation didn’t inherit those capabilities, so we have no one who can make keris here”. Add Mr Darto gently. So what will be the fate of Indonesian Keris in the future? There are still few who can make the keris cover, but what if there would be no one who are capable of making Keris?
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Kawah Rengganis terletak di daerah Ciwidey-Jawa Barat. Karena mengandung belerang, pemandian di tempat ini, sering digunakan untuk pengobatan penyakit kulit. Selain itu, air panas dari pancuran kawah rengganis juga dipercaya bisa mengobati berbagai penyakit seperti strok dan rematik Kakek tua dan cucunya ini mengaku jauh-jauh datang dari Cianjur hanya untuk terapi strok si kakek. “Lebih murah di banding ke dokter”, kata sang cucu. “Kakek saya juga lebih mendingan di banding beberapa bulan yang lalu”,lanjutnya. Menurut warga lokal, selain untuk berobat, tempat ini juga sering dijadikan pengunjung dari berbagai daerah untuk mencari wangsit atau bersemedi. Malah ada yang niat bawa tenda atau tidur di bedeng sederhana…(23 April 2008)
Rengganis Crater
Rengganis Crater is located in Ciwidey-Jawa Barat. Because of containing Sulfur, many villager come to this place to cure their skin diseases. Besides, it also believed can cure Stroke and Rheumatism too. This Old man and his grand son come from Cianjur to do some stroke theraphy. “ Cheaper than doctor”, said the grand son. “ My grand pa is getting better than a few months ago”, he said. According to the local villager, besides curing their illness, many people come to this place to find wangsit ( revelation ) or to meditate. Even some of them intended to bring tents or to sleep in local settlement. (April, 23, 2008)
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Nanga adalah desa nelayan biasa di luar kota Maumere, Nusa Tenggara Timur. Yang membedakan hanya kuda. Walaupun kuda yang mereka miliki cendrung kuda kerdil, bagi mayoritas penduduk Nanga, kuda lebih berharga dibanding perahu dan jaring mereka. Setiap sore, semua penduduk di desa Nanga memandikan kuda mereka di tempat yang sama. Di sebuah muara kecil di ujung desa mereka.Dan saya pun memotretnya…
Horses and Nanga
Nanga is only a common village of sailor outside of Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara. What makes it different is only a horse. Even though the horses which belong to them are rather smaller, most of them consider their horses are more valuable than their boats and nets. Every afternoon villager wash their horses at the same place. In a small estuary at the edge of their village, I took pictures of them..
Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
