Alexandra Boulat
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Indonesia 2000 - Living dangerously
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Jakarta night view. The blue "Pen" building is the only building that makes a visual difference with the other capitals of the world. -
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Contrast of new Jakarta with modern buildings surrounding an old mosque. -
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Presidential election day in Jakarta.Demonstration of supporters of Megawati -
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Back yards of the department store's employees restaurants. Misery contrast with wealth in many areas of Jakarta. -
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Young boys playing guitar and selling newspaper to the drivers in the traffic jam. West Jakarta. -
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Overloaded trains between 7.00 and 8.00 am, when people get into the city for work. Jakarta, Manggari train station. -
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Friday prayer at Surabaya Grand Mosque. Java. -
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Aceh children gathering every late afternoon in the mosque veranda to learn Arabic language. Once they know the alphabet they can start reading the Koran. Most of the children have to attend this extra study in Aceh. Muslim values and regional identity are becoming increasingly important in Aceh, which fights to be recognized as an Islamic region. Aceh. Istiqamah Mosque, Sigli, Pidie Regency. -
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Bitter over decades of exploitation by Jakarta, Irian Jaya's mostly Christian native people gathered last spring in Jayapura for the second papuan Congress. Declaring Indonesia's claims to their land illegitimate they vowed a continuing struggle for freedom and recognition. -
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The Pig Feast in the valley village of Nottomas near Kosarek. The Yanis celebrate the killing of two pigs. While they are being cooked, Yanis people proceed to the traditional Spena dance. After the dance all the village will eat the pigs, together with sweet potatoes. Irian Jaya, high lands. -
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A Mentawaï women is getting dressed and beautiful for the Shaman introduction ceremony. Mentawaï Siberut Island. -
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A Mentawaï girl carries bamboo sticks out of the jungle. Mentawaï, Siberut Island. -
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Bukit Lawang Orangutan Rehabilitation Center. The Orangutan Rehabilitation Center was founded by WWF Indonesia in 1973 as the first orangutan rehabilitation center in Indonesia.The Center main duty is to prepare the orang-utans, after they were confiscated, to their new habitat. An English volunteer takes a young orangutan to the jungle. This female monkey has been grown up in the city. -
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A man sales a dead Paradise bird, endangered species, on the side of the road for $150. Freeport gold mine. Irian Jaya. Timika. -
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Jaranan (Wild Horses) performance in a village of East Java. The performance shows the process to create the atmosphere for the dancer through mantra, offerings, music and magic in order for him to trance. -
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Active volcano Mt. Bromo festival. Yadnya Kasodo festival. Mt Bromo, still active, is the most venerated volcano in Indonesia. Once a year, 10 000 Hindu pilgrims and young people walk up to Bromo crater to make some offerings to the volcano's god . As the people throw the offerings into the crater, dozen of beggars try to catch them. With this offers, the Tengger people ( the ethnic group of the Bromo region ) thanks the volcano's god for all the wealth that they have in one year due to the fertility of the land. -
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Aerial over Mount Bromo caldera. Mt Bromo is the most popular active volcano in Indonesia, visited every year by thousands of tourists. East Java. -
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Workers at Java sulphur mine in the crater of Ijen volcano.120 workers walk down in the Sulfatar with no protection against the sulphur toxic smoke and bring down the sulphur to the valley, on their shoulders. Each one carries around 80 to 110 kilos in one trip, and each one does two or three trips up and down the volcano every day. Java -
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Sulphur mine in the crater of Ijen volcano. Workers weight sulphur. Each one carries around 80 to 110 kilos out of the mine, and does two or three trips up and down the volcano every day. Their work start at 4:30 in the morning. Sardoui, smokes a big hand rolled cigarette, he is 50, and he does this job since 25 years. As the others, he is paid 250 Rp. / kilo. - Java -
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A Transmigration settlement near Timika shows deforestation and environment problems. In the great rain forest, large number of species and lots of ground resources lead the people to the worst environmental disrespects. Here, in Irian Jaya, the transmigrated people coming from Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi are responsible for the deforestation. They are cutting the trees in order to establish an oil palm tree plantation. Here they cut an ebony tree, which is the most expensive wood in Indonesia. The money they will make from the sale of this wood will help them survive until they've organized their new life and found other ways of making their living. -
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Swmills on Bariton river. The wood comes from central Kalimantan.Banjarmasin, Pasar Kuin. -
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Madures workers are going back home on a truck after a day of labor in the fields. Java -
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Underwater fishermen with harpoon. North Sulawesi. Talise Islands. -
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A very busy little passenger port. Over-loaded boats come and go around the surrounding Lembatas islands. Larantuka is mainly populated with Christians. Flores. North East, Larantuka port. -
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Boroboudur temple with Mont Merbabu volcano in far background. -
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A dead wild pig head sacrificed for the new Shaman festival. Mentawaï, Siberut Island. -
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A Mentawaï family sacrificing a cow for the Shaman introduction ceremony. Mentawaï, Siberut Island. Mentawaï people. -
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Shaman Laolao is hanging magical preparation around the new Shaman necks. Mentawaï, Siberut Island. New Shaman festival. -
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In Aman a LaoLao's woman is hanging her red clothes by the longhouse. Siberut Island. -
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The young Mentawaï Shaman is putting some make up on. Mentawaï, Siberut Island. -
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Mentawaï shamans are gathering in the long house. Mentawaï, Siberut Island. -
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Diner party for Mentawaï people. Boiled pig and chicken are being equally distributed into bamboo sticks. Mentawaï, Siberut Island. New Shaman ceremony. -
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In Aman LaoLao's Uma, Mentawai Island, West of Sumatra. Deep in the Siberut National Park (UNESCO site), Shaman Aman LaoLao, chef of his clan, is the master of ceremony for the initiation of two new Shamans : his son Aman Telephon (about 22) and Aman Teo Jaja, an older man (about 55). About 50 guests (8 families, 8 Shamans) from 6 different clans attended the ceremonies which lasted for three days and ended with a full night dancing and trancing until the rise of the sun. -
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East of Bali, aerial photograph of sea weed plantations in between Nusa Lembongan island and Nusa Ceningan island, few kilometers East of Bali. The crops, used in the cosmetic industry, can go for a significantly better price than the rice. -
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Java, Bogor, Botanical Garden. Hazing party of the new 16 year old students from a Jakarta private Muslim school. With198 million, Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, making it inevitable that its road to the future run through the country’s Islamic identity. Yet, Indonesia’s Muslims have a very moderate attitude towards their religion. -
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Because of political unrest and it's fight for Independence, Banda Aceh( Aceh district, North of Sumatra) remains a dead town. Since Suharto gave up, after 30 years of dictatorship, in many parts of the country, people are asking for their rights. The Aceh Freedom Movement is asking for an Independent Muslim state. -
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Jakarta resources. The man collecting garbage in the city riverbeds is Mr. Martim. Here on the Krukut river (South Jakarta) he floats on a small barge made of floating garbage and dives from time to time into the soup to pick up his goods: peace of metals, cans, rubber, glass bottles. He makes 30 000 RP / day (around US$5) and has been doing so for 30 years. -
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Java. Surabaya. Prostitutes are having diner in one of the brothels of Surabaya’s Dolly Red District. There, 3 000 prostitutes live and work in a mixed " residential " area. They are between 18 and 25 years old. Their rate is 50 000 Rp./hour. (around US $ 8) -
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Java.Yogyakarta. Muslim holidays. Funfair during the celebrations of Mohammed the Prophet's birthday. A Muslim woman enjoys taking her child to the fun fair airplane. Since the economic collapse of 1997, the infant mortality rate has nearly doubled, and more than a third of the country’s toddlers suffer from malnutrition. -
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South Kalimantan, Banjarmasin. The Venice of Indonesia. Veiled Muslim schoolgirls are going back home by boat on Bariton river after a day in a private Muslim school. -
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Sulfur mine in the crater of Ijen Volcano. One miner lays on a rock, exhausted on the way up from the crater.The workers have to work down in the sulfur mine with no protection against the sulfur toxic. On their shoulders, each one carries around 80 to 110 kilos of sulfur, up from the crater and down to the valley few times a day. A blue sulfur acid lake fulfill the crater. -
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Irian Jaya. Timika. Freeport territory. Women collecting dry wood on the desert river bank in Timika. Upstream Timika river, 40 kilometers up hill (alt. 4000 m. ) Freeport Company (British/American) is mining intensely the biggest gold and copper mine in the world. The Timika river used to be a large river but it disappeared under the acidic run off from mining telling. What is left of the river is just a filament of polluted water and people come there to pick up dead wood. 30 years ago, a dense virgin forest used to grow up to the river bank. Now,all you have is a large grey desert which sprawls on thousands square kilometers. -
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Oil fields like Kalimantan’s Muara Badak works produce Indonesia’s most valuable exports. -
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Java. Still alive, Mount Bromo, in eastern Java, is the most famous, visited and venerated volcano in Indonesia and part of a national park. To protect its national treasures Indonesia relies on funds from foreign governments and international conservation organizations. -
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Irian Jaya. High lands. Wamena area, village of Nottomas near Kosarek. A woman is going back home, with her pigs. She wears a rattan skirt (Polak) and, to protect herself from the rain, a cap made of Banana leaves. On her back she carries sweet potatoes she has picked up in her garden. Yani tribes inhabit this area. As all the other 80 villagers do, she grows sweet potatoes and hangs out with pigs. They live in the high altitude (2000m) of the equatorial Irian Jaya HighLand. In this part of the country, the nature gets hard for a human being to survive. The land where the Yani have to set their gardens is incredibly stiff and it rains half of the day, every day of the year. -
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Bali. Denpasar. Indonesia is a multi cultural and multi religion land. Here in Bali, an Hindu procession provokes traffic jam, and two Balinese young men are waiting in their car for the procession, carrying offerings of fruits and flowers to a nearby temple, to pass by. Nearly all Balinese are Hindu, although only about 2 percent of Indonesians nationwide share that religion. -
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Irian Jaya. Wamena Pro-Independent Papuan on their way to the Papuan Congress that took place in Jayapura (Irian Jaya) on May 28th 2000. Like the people of Aceh in Sumatra, but for different reasons, and at the opposite side of Indonesia, the Irian Jayanese also claim for Independence. They call themselves the Papuan. Here few pro-Independent Yali militants are traveling down from their Yali village, near Wamena, to attend the conference. At the conference, they will talk about their culture, their history and their position towards the Indonesian Government. -
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Irian Jaya. Jayapura. Papuan congress. A women has a picture of Jesus Christ attached to her bra and on the other side her accreditation to attend the Pauan Congress. Tribes from different parts of Irian Jaya came down Jayapura to attend a pro-Independent congress. The people of Irian Jaya have been converted to Catholicism by an army of fervent Dutch missionaries when Indonesia was a Dutch colony. -
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A so-called Paradise: Inside a restaurant in Larantuka. North East of Flores. After boarding off a crowded boat, and coming from a neighboring island, a man wearing the typical Muslim-Indonesian hat, is having lunch in a small restaurant on the small port of Larantuka. On the wall: a painting represents the reality of the Indonesian wild life diversity. -
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The late morning light turned harsh as Yali people of highland Irian Jaya prepared a feast, and smoke from roasting pigs and sweet potatoes filled the air. .
Indonesia
Living Dangerously.
Three years after a crashing economy ended the 32-year rule of Indonesia’s former president Suharto, the world’s fourth most populous nation and the biggest Muslim country boils with religious and ethnic strife. That’s no surprise, considering this anchor-shaped archipelago sweeps 3,200 miles end and contains 6,000 inhabited islands and 225 million people who are, in turn, divided by religion (Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist), ethnicity (some 300 groups and as many distinctive languages), and water (four-fifths of the country’s total area). After several months of wandering all over the archipelago, Alexandra was amazed by its strange, wildly diverse beauty and the character of it’s people, their tenacity, courage and wry good humour.