Waktu seorang kawan saya mengatakan bahwa dia ingin meninggal di tanah suci Mekah, saya luar biasa heran. Menurut saya, dia sangat aneh. Apa hebatnya meninggal di Mekah dan jasadnya dikebumikan disana? Bukankah kita semua ingin meninggal di rumah keluarga dan dimakamkan di kampung halaman kita sendiri? Bukankah mereka […]
POVERTY is not a stranger to me since i was little. I saw poverty around me, be it in my own country or abroad, in the USA and in Europe. It was during the Japanese occupation, in Jakarta, Indonesia, when for the first time I saw how sad was a man struck by severe poverty. […]
I used to like fried frogs. Not anymore, because I am afraid that they would disappear forever if we, humans, consume them all. Now I do not see them often, while about twenty years ago, I saw them every where. We do not just eat any frog. The frogs that we eat are the green […]
We moved from Solo to Jakarta in 1942 and I did not remember much. It was the beginning of the Japanese occupation of our country. I remember that our house was at Mampang street number 73 (now Jalan Cik di Tiro) in Menteng, an old residential area. The house was very big with a huge […]
I remember my childhood only from when I was almost five. Before then, I do not remember much. They say that I was born in Solo, but conceived in Bali. Solo or Surakarta is in Central Java, Indonesia. While Bali, a beautiful island, which is also called The Island of the Gods for obvious reasons, […]
Kota Ambon is the capital city of the Kepulauan Ambon (the Moluccas) in the Indonesian archipelago.The Moluccas or Maluku, consisted of some big islands, like Ambon, Banda, Banda Neira, Pulau Api, Halmahera, Ceram, Saparua, and also about 1000 small islands, which many of them are empty or sparsely populated.The population is about 2 millions, including […]
Blitar is a small town in the southern part of East Java. This small town will forever be a great attraction for Indonesian people, because in this small peaceful place there is the cemetery of the first President of Indonesia, Mr Sukarno. He is also the freedom fighter, national hero, and above all he proclaimed […]
Hi, there. New Year’s greetings to you all. May God bless you. I wrote about Solo, a town where I was happily born and also where my ancestors from my mother’s side came. Now, as my name is SoloSampang, I will write about Sampang. My ancestors from my father’s side came from this small town […]
Solo which is also called Surakarta, is a town in Central Java, where I was born. Solo is the Javanese art center, as well as Jokyakarta (or Jokya), the neighboring town. There are two palaces in Solo, the Kraton Kasunanan, where Sunan (King) Hamengku Buwono XIII reigns and Kadipaten Mangkunegaran, where Prince Mangkunegara IX heads. […]
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