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Gedung Indonesia Menggugat
There are always pluses and minuses for everything, and context determines which ones are heavier than the others at a certain point of time. I'm not talking about serious matters, even though the same principle applies as well. It's about being either on a driver's or a passenger's seat. It is...
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Pantai Matras
Pantai Matras is one of the four beautiful beaches that I visited in Bangka Island. It offers fantastic view of blue sky, white clouds, white sand, clear sparkling sea water and shady coconut trees along its coastal lines. The time was rather limited to explore the beach though, and hence some...
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Masjid Kubah Emas
Masjid Kubah Emas (Golden Dome Mosque) in Depok, a popular name of Masjid Dian Al-Mahri, is arguably one of the biggest and the most impressive mosques in the country, and in Southeast Asia. Other impressive mosques includes Masjid Istiqlal in Jakarta and Masjid Agung Jawa Tengah in Semarang....
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Pura Aditya Jaya
Curiosity kills, but it also grows and brings lights. It was that curiosity that bothered me every time I passed the street, thinking of what the place really was and what it might look like while staring at a typical Balinese style wall structure surrounding the place. More than 20 years later...
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Masjid At Tin
Masjid At Tin is situated within Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (Indonesia Miniature Park) compound in East Jakarta municipality. Even though it looked rather old when I went there, but it still kept signs of its grandeur as one of the landmarks built at the end of the New Order era. Obviously the...
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Wihara Amurva Bhumi
Wihara Amurva Bhumi is a Buddhist vihara and Chinese temple located at Jl. Prof.Dr. Satrio No.2 (more popularly known as Jl. Casablanca), Setiabudi, Jakarta Selatan. I passed the Vihara almost everyday for about seven years when I was working at a company having office at Menara Danamon, now...
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Makam Pangeran Jayakarta
Makam Pangeran Jayakarta (Prince Jayakarta Tomb) is located at Jl. Jatinegara Kaum, East Jakarta. I passed the street almost everyday for more than fifteen years to drop my three kids at LabSchool Rawamangun, and still frequently pass the street these days to go to Kelapa Gading, without knowing...
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Curug Cigamea
Curug Cigamea is located a little deeper into Taman Nasional Halimun-Salak, Bogor, just a few minutes drive from the road's branch to Curug Seribu. Curug is a word found in West Java and some parts of Central Java that means waterfall. Curug Cigamea was visited right after leaving Curug Seribu, and...
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Curug Seribu
Curug Seribu is the biggest natural waterfall that I have ever visited inside Taman Nasional Halimun-Salak, Bogor regency. The access to get there was, however, the toughest and the roughest one, and I would rather not recommend you to go there unless you enjoy physical exercise and really love...
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Museum POLRI
Museum POLRI is probably the newest museum in Jakarta, officially inaugurated by President SBY on July 1, 2009, at the same day with POLRI's anniversary. POLRI is the National Police of the Republic of Indonesia, a name that was adopted after being separated from the army in 2000. Museum POLRI is...
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Curug Cihurang
Curug Cihurang is by far the nearest Curug (waterfall) around Gunung Bunder area that I have ever visited, measured by length of the walking distance from the parking lot. It is so close and the path is so smooth that almost no effort is needed to get there. Curug Cihurang is located inside Taman...
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Dago Tea House
Dago Tea House, also known as Dago Thee Huis during the Dutch colonial era, is a nice place located at northern hilly parts of Bandung, where temperature is a lot cooler and the environment is much greener than the other parts of the city. When I was still studying in Bandung back in the early...
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Curug Ngumpet
Curug Ngumpet is one of a few nice medium-size waterfalls located inside Taman Nasional Gunung Halimun Salak (Mt Halimun Salak National Park), Bogor Regency, West Java. The waterfall and the huge protected mountainous forest area are probably not as popular as and not as well-developed as that of...
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Air Panas Ciseeng
Pemandian Air Panas Ciseeng (Ciseeng Hot Springs), was a strange name and place until just a few weeks back. It never crossed in my mind that there's a rather nice hot springs facility that could be reached in just about 40 minutes drive from Serpong-Tangerang, at the outskirts of Jakarta. The name...
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Kuburan Belanda in Bogor
The location of Kuburan Belanda, or Dutch Graveyard, is at one of the corners of Kebun Raya Bogor (Bogor Botanic Garden). If you use a car to go around the garden, thing that you can only do during weekdays, you won't see the graveyard, since it is located a few meters away from the road and...
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Kebun Raya Bogor
Kebun Raya Bogor is one of the nicest, biggest and oldest botanic gardens in the region, located 60 km south of Jakarta, in the heart of Bogor city. While I have visited it several times, but there were still few things that I just noticed of their existence during the last visit, which is...
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Air Panas Tirta Tapta
Air Panas Tirta Tapta is one of the last places that we visited while in Pangkalpinang, right after attending LKers gathering last November. The natural hot springs facility is located at Pemali, Bangka regency, around 20 km from Sungailiat or 50 km from Pangkalpinang. The roads to get there were...
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Pantai Pasir Padi
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a very memorable New Year's Eve, but if you had not, no need to feel sorry about it, as good times may come at any night, at any moment to come. The good thing is that we are all still breathing, be it lightly or heavily, at this very moment. We are still rewarded...
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Gedung Sate
Gedung Sate is one of the most famous icons of Bandung, the capital city of West Java, situated approximately 180 km southeast of Jakarta. Bandung is a nice cool city that was once dubbed as Parijs van Java, suggested its reputation as a heaven for shoppers. Bandung is also very rich with old...
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Kelenteng Dewi Kwan Im
Kelenteng Dewi Kwan Im Pangkalpinang was the next temple that we visited after leaving Kelenteng Kwan Tie Miaw and after taking a few photos of an old Benteng Theater from a far which fate was uncertain due to the establishment of a mall complex around it. I couldn't remember exactly how long it...
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Kelenteng Kwan Tie Miaw
Kelenteng Kwan Tie Miaw, one of the oldest Chinese temples in Bangka, was visited on November 28, 2009. Pangkalpinang was showered with a heavy downpour in the morning that day, but the sky became much clearer at around noon time. Hence, after friends from Komunitas Pecinta Musik Konser Rakyat Leo...
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Masjid Jamik Pangkalpinang
Right after visiting Masjid Raya Tuatunu, we went straight to Masjid Jamik Pangkalpinang, one of the oldest and biggest mosques in the city, built in the year of 1936. It looked like it was at the final stage of a renovation work when we were there. We decided not to enter the mosque from the front...
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Masjid Raya Tuatunu
It was late afternoon when we left Persada's house to further explore places of interest around city of Pangkalpinang, Bangka Island. I was trusted to be on the driver's seat, and carefully pressed the car's accelerator heading toward Masjid Raya Tuatunu (Tuatunu Grand Mosque), following directions...
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Tweetback Button Inside Post
I didn't touch my Twitter account for months, was not aware that it could be used to promote a new posting to fellow users, and didn't know that it could also be used to measure a posting popularity, until the day I found out that the Indonesia Matters has changed its blog ranks criteria to include...
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The Beauty of Pantai Parai
Pantai Parai (Parai Beach) in Sungailiat, Bangka Island, was the first tourist spot that I visited while attending "Bangka Kami Datang", a gathering program held by members of Komunitas Pecinta Musik Konser Rakyat Leo Kristi at the end of last November. Our beloved friends, Abing Patrick and...
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