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Blogging – Interrupted
I haven’t blogged for over a month, but goodness knows, I have tried. Being in the field all this time in Kalimantan made it virtually impossible to have internet connections. Putative swine flu felled three of the volunteers on the first OFI team at the end of July and they were quarantined for [...]
Continue reading...Return to Indonesia: Meeting the Governor in Palangka Raya
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Shortly after my arrival in Jakarta I was told (in typical local fashion) that we had an appointment to meet with the Governor of our province, Kalimantan Tengah (Central Indonesian Boneo) in two days’ time. The appointment was at one o’clock in a suite at a hotel in Palangka Raya, the provincial capital, where the Governor [...]
Continue reading...More views of Jakarta, Indonesia’s City of Dreams, and Cats
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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Jakarta, like most cities in developing countries, is very much a city of contrasts with mansions in Pondok Indah rivalling those in Beverly Hills, California, and slums in south Jakarta reminiscent of Calcutta. It is also noisey, gritty, smoggy, and sweaty. But it still has some of the nicest people in the world. You just [...]
Continue reading...Return to Indonesia: Jakarta, City of Dreams
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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It’s great to be back in Jakarta, a city that many foreigners avoid. It is also called “The Big Durian” and the pollution does sometimes stink. Jakarta is Indonesia’s capital, largest city, and probably its most dynamic urban area. It has at least ten million people and is one of the largest cities in the [...]
Continue reading...Coming Home: First to Jakarta
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Mr. Freddy, a local businessperson from the province of Kalimantan Tengah, flew to Jakarta so that he could immediately receive the funds for 20 ha. of forest that he agreed to sell OFI. Otherwise, the forest would have been cleared for palm oil and lost forever to a relic population of about 50 – 100 wild [...]
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Scientist, conservationist, educator: for almost four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo in their natural habitat, and is today the world’s foremost authority on the orangutan.Latest Flickr photos
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- Return to Indonesia: Meeting the Governor in Palangka Raya
- Orangutan Twins - Thor doing fine so far!
- Coming Home: Indonesia
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Monday, August 17, 2009
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