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[edit] Featured Pictures of 2007
- Week 1
A Tongkonan is the traditional dwelling of the Toraja people in central Sulawesi. The construction of a tongkonan is a laborious work in which usually all members of a family, including extended ones, are involved.
Photo credit: Elma Roux.
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- Week 2
A picture of Orang Laut village in Tanjung Pinang, Indonesia. Orang Laut (lit: sea nomads), notoriously known as pirates of Strait of Malacca, is a group of numerous tribes inhabitating islands stretching from Riau Islands of Indonesia until Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines.
Photo credit: Merbabu.
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- Week 3
Two Dayak children wearing the traditional outfit. Dayak is an indigenous ethnic group in the interior of Borneo island.
Photo credit: Dr. Georg Buschan.
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- Week 4
One of Toraja wood carving's patterns, the pa'tedong or the buffalo. Torajans express social and religious concepts by wood carving with patterns symbolizing daily life activities/materials, ranging from animal symbol to a symbol of relationship between Torajan villages. The pa'tedong symbol in this picture is special among others, because wealthiness in Toraja is counted by how many buffalos someone has; the buffalo pattern is therefore a hope of wealth.
Photo credit: Indon.
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- Week 5
A night shot scene at Balikpapan, the second largest city in East Kalimantan province. The city is well known for its oil refinery and the location of a state-owned oil company Pertamina's regional headquarter.
Photo credit: Kebo3.
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- Week 6
Homes sunk deep under 60° C hot mud in Porong, East Java province. The mud flow disaster has erupted on average between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres daily since 28 May 2006, after an exploratory drilling process by the private Indonesian company PT Lapindo Brantas.
Photo credit: Arifhidayat.
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- Week 7
The first photograph of Borobudur by Isidore van Kinsbergen in circa 1873. The monument was rediscovered in 1814 after apparent abandonment for some centuries. This picture shows when the monument has just been cleared up. A Dutch flag was shown on top of the main dome.
Photo credit: Isidore van Kinsbergen.
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- Week 8
A confucian temple in Bojonegoro, a small city in the East Java province. As of 2000, the city population was more than 1.5 millions including the ethnic Chinese as minority.
Photo credit: Arifhidayat.
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- Week 9
The National Museum of Indonesia in Jakarta. The elephant (Indonesian: gajah) has given the museum a more popular name, Musium Gajah, instead of the official name. The building was first used for the office of the Batavia Society for Arts and Science who had interests in archaeological and cultural assets of the Dutch East Indies.
Photo credit: Meursault2004.
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- Week 10
A picture of Lake Maninjau in West Sumatra, shown with a house reminiscent of a traditional Minangkabau rumah gadang. Lake Maninjau is a 20×8 km² wide of caldera lake formed by a volcanic eruption around 52,000 years ago.
Photo credit: Chaerani.
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- Week 11
Bena is a traditional village on Flores, an island at the southeast of the Indonesian archipelago. The village is located directly at the foot of a volcano, a few kilometers south of Bajawa town, and it has been a famous tourist attraction. The roof of houses at Bena displays a unique traditional vernacular architecture native to Indonesia.
Photo credit: Serenade.
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- Week 12
Salak (Salacca zalacca) is a native fruit from Indonesia and Malaysia. Its skin resembles the skin of snake which has given its name in English as the snakefruit. Major cultivation areas of Salak are in Yogyakarta, popularly known as salak pondoh, and in Bali.
Photo credit: っ.
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- Week 13
Bajaj is Indian made autorickshaw that was popular for public transportation throughout Jakarta. As the city grows rapidly into a metropolitan area, the small 2-passenger three-wheeled car can only be found in residential areas.
Photo credit: Jonathan McIntos.
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- Week 14
Dieng Plateau is considered one of Java's sacred places. At least eight of the 400 7th–8th century old of Javanese-Hindu temples remain on the marshy plateau. The site forms the floor of a caldera on the Dieng volcano complex.
Photo credit: Ardianto Bahtiar.
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- Week 15
Albert Aalbers, one of the Dutch architects working in Bandung in the 1930s, had a unique characteristic style of the rounded facades dubbed as the 'ocean wave'. Two buildings with noticeable similar architectural style are the DENIS bank (the present-day of Bank Jabar, designed by Aalbers in 1936) at Braga Street and the Savoy Homann Hotel (renovated by Aalbers in 1939). The picture shows the 'ocean wave' ornaments of the Savoy Homann Hotel.
Photo credit: Jagawana.
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- Week 16
Between 2–12 February, 2007, Jakarta experienced a major flood disaster. In total, 54 people were killed and the event paralyzed the metropolitan city with the estimated USD 400 million damages. The picture shows a taxi submerged into a flooded water while a horse carriage tried to escape away.
Photo credit: Gajah Mada (a Flickr user).
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- Week 17
Portal:Indonesia/POTW/17, 2007
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- Week 18
Portal:Indonesia/POTW/18, 2007
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- Week 19
Portal:Indonesia/POTW/19, 2007
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- Week 20
Portal:Indonesia/POTW/20, 2007
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