Indonesia Blog Award from “Internet Sehat”
Jun 10, 2010 Articles, Awards, Grants, Competitions,Fellowships, Comercial, Multimedia | Video, Photography, Photojournalism
Woww.. amazing, baru beberapa jam pihak Internet Sehat Blog & Content Award (ISBA) 2010 mengumumkan award ini di media detik.com, langsung ratusan orang mengunjungi blog saya yang masih tergolong muda ini. Sungguh ini merupakan kegembiraan tersendiri menerima apresiasi ini dan mengetahui banyak pengunjung yang membaca tulisan-tulisan sederhana saya. Barangkali ini akan menjadi rekor jumlah pembaca yang mengunjungi blog ini.
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Tags: Ahmad Zamroni, blog, blog award, Indonesia
Baduy’s Honey Road
May 13, 2010 Articles, Photography, Photojournalism, Travel
The Baduy (or Badui), who call themselves Kanekes, are a traditional community living in the western part of the Indonesian province of Banten, near Rangkasbitung. Their population of between 5,000 and 8,000 is centered in the Kendeng mountains at an elevation of 300-500 meters (975′-1,625′) above sea level. Their homeland in Banten, Java is contained in just 50 km² (20 sq. miles) of hilly fores.
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Members of the Baduy tribe safeguard their traditional ways of life by resisting any form of modernity. They obey the entire set of custom, including traditional prohibitions.
Tags: Baduy, Banten, Indonesia, jalur madu, jawa barat, rangkas bitung
Baduy’s Honey Road (Print Version)
May 13, 2010 Articles, Comercial, Photography, Photojournalism
Tags: Baduy, Banten, Geographic, Indonesia, Kanekes, Magazine, National
The Denggal Dance
Apr 13, 2010 Articles, Photography, Photojournalism, Travel
The Denggal dance is a special dance from Walsa tribe in Waris, part of Keerom district in Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia. This dance is performed before starting the process of making the sago flour.
The Walsa Tribe always performs The Danggal Dance accompanied by a song or the local call sanggal, the meaning is to celebrate and to communicate each other on the way to reach the celebration place. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: dance, denggal, Documentary, Indonesia, Papau, Photojournalism, Walsa
I La Galigo
Mar 2, 2010 Photography, Photojournalism
Theatre, dancevisionary work by Robert Wilson. I LA GALIGO features a cast of 50 Indonesia’s finest performers. The music has been researched and composed by Indonesian master Rahayu Supanggah.The theatre work is inspired by Sureq Galigo (Galigo Manuscripts), an epic poem of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Longer than the Mahabharata and comparable to the adventures of Ulysses in Homer’s Odyssey, the epic tells the story of the creation of the Middle World and the first six generations of its inhabitants.
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Tags: Bugis, I La Galigo, Indonesia, International, Makasar, South Sulawes, Theatre
‘Survivor’ yang Terlupakan
Feb 23, 2010 Articles, Photography, Photojournalism
Survivor
Belasan orang terdiam membisu. Sebagian mereka nyaris tanpa baju dengan tubuh merlumur lumpur dan mengering. Ada yang duduk dan berdiri. Namun mereka tidak berkata-kata, hanya memegang potret . Potret dari wajah-wajah yang bagi orang umum tidak begitu dikenal karena memang bukan portret public figure atau selebritis. Mereka adalah wajah-wajah dari korban lumpur di Sidoarjo yang juga dikenal dengan Lumpur Lapindo. Itulah “Survivor” sebuah art performance yang disuguhkan seniman Dadang Christanto dalam penutupan Biennale Jogja X yang digelar beberapa bulan yang lalu.
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Tags: Art, Biennale Jogja X, Brisbane, Dadang Cristanto, Indonesia, Queensland, Survivor
Indonesia’s Historic Poll
Jan 27, 2010 Photography, Photojournalism
Indonesia’s first ever presidential election is a massive enterprise, with more than 150 million eligible voters spread across 14,000 islands and three time zones. Presidential elections were held in Indonesia on July 5, and September 20, 2004. In the second round former security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defeated incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Yudhoyono was inaugurated on October 20. The second round of Indonesia’s historic first direct presidential election has taken place successfully, in a general atmosphere of calm, order, and open participation. This represents a major step in the country’s ongoing democratic transition.
Photo by: Ahmad Zamroni
Tags: elections, Historic, Indonesia, Journalism, Megawati, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Photography, Photojournalism, Poll, Presidential, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon
Vanishing forests a counterpoint to Indonesia’s climate crusade
Jan 26, 2010 Photography, Photojournalism
Peatland Forest, Riau, Indonesia. Photo: Ahmad Zamroni
Photo by: Ahmad Zamroni
Text by : Aubrey Belford
KUALA CENAKU, Indonesia (AFP) – Head man Mursyid Ali stands amid blackened stumps, the remains of much of the rainforest belonging to this village on Indonesia’s Sumatra stripped and drained in spite of local protests.
Thanks largely to the burning of forests and destruction of carbon-rich peatlands, Indonesia is the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, a statistic coming under the spotlight ahead of the nation hosting a major international climate change conference next month.
The December 3-14 UN summit on the resort island of Bali will see delegates from around the world — including more than 100 ministers — thrash out a framework for negotiations on a global regime to combat climate change when the current phase of the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012.
Satellite images from environmental watchdog WWF show that only 25 years ago, the majority of Riau province — home to Ali’s village — was covered in equatorial forest, one of the most ecologically diverse habitats on Earth and a vital absorber of carbon.
Today, four million hectares (nearly 10 million acres), or more than 60 percent, have gone. Land clearing, both legal and illegal, has made way for tree and oil palm plantations, logging concessions and small farms.
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Tags: Ahmad Zamroni, April, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), Forest, Indonesia, Peatland, Photography, Photojournalism, Riau, Riaupulp
