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Deserted sandy white beaches
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July 2008 - A nice stretch of sandy white beach, just a few hundred meters long. The small road then turns inland over a few hills before ending up at the little harbour of Sadeng, in the remote southeastern corner of Yogyakarta province, at some two and a half hours drive from the city of Yogyakarta. Freshly caught fish is on sale here before the sun rises above the horison, good to buy here and eat a few beaches towards the west when the first rays of sun come over the hills.
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At the end of the line; Purworejo train station
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June 2008 - The small terminal train station of the town of Purworejo, one hours drive to the west from the city of Yogyakarta, is in the middle of the town. It is the quiet environment - the only exception is the still fairly quiet main road passing directly in front of it - as well as the colonial design which make it seems you are going back in time some hundred years. Like time has stood still here at the very end of the railroad track where switches are moved by hand, the ticket booth only opens when a train is about to leave and that is only when there is a train, just a few times a week!
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Fort Willem II in Ambarawa
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April 2008 - Located near the main road from Semarang to Yogyakarta, just outside the village of Ambarawa is the old Dutch fortress 'Willem II'. However since Indonesian independence it has become a military complex and prison, it has a past of serving as a fortress during the Dutch coloial time and a prison during the Japanese occupation and revolution afterwards. Nowadays the fortress can be visited, but you are not allowed to make any pictures because it's a military object.
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Hot mudflow Sidoarjo, East Java
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26 October 2007 - After almost one and a half year continuous mud from the Lapindo Brantas drilling site near Gempol, just south of the town of Sidoarjo in the province of East Java, tens of thousands were forced to move, hundreds of hectare of village and estates are covered in mud and there is still no end in sight. Every single day some 150,000 cubic meter of hot toxic mud is exhausted by te mud volcano. Ever since it started, contractors have tried to build as many dams as possible and a part of the hot mud is directly diverged to the Brantas river, but that is not a permanent sollution at all. In a series of more than seventy pictures a look at the current situation around the volcano that is in continuous eruption for over a year now. 76 new pictures added!
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Mount Kelud (Kelut) volcano
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25 October 2007 - As scientists announce that the Mount Kelud volcano in eastern Java is about to erupt, it was time to bring that volcano a visit for the first time. However I had passed it many times by travel, I never took the time to take a closer look at it. For now, no eruption pictures here however.
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Fort Van der Wijck
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12 October 2007 - If you are on a visit to Kebumen, don't forget to bring a visit to Fort Van der Wijck because you think it is not interesting. It's location is almost directly on the main road from Yogyakarta to Kebumen (on the northern side) - just 500 meters to the north in the town of Gombong - and it would be a miss if you didn't stop there for a visit.
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Java (Jawa) information
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The coastal city of Banten, eigthy kilometres west of Jakarta at the northen coast of Jawa, was the biggest centre of transport of spices in the 16th and 17th century. At its peek, it was almost as important as Amsterdam. The nowadays Banten is only a small fishing village, which can't be found on most maps. There are still old buildings left and found over the years which are worth while a visit. (...)
Blitar is not just a historical footnote as the ancestral home and burial place of Sukarno. Thankfully bypassed by the rapid, unchecked development of other places in East Java, the tranquil area boasts a refreshing small town charm and the most outstanding Hindu temple in the province. The elderly man prostrated himself in front of the short, ornately decorated fence surrounding the tomb. He crie (...)
The Bogor Regency borders to Jakarta in the north, to Bekasi and Tangerang Regencies, to the Sukabumi and Cianjur Regencies in the south, to the Municipality of Karawang in the east and to the east and the Lebak regency in the west. The Bogor Regency covers an area of 332,635 hectares, which are used for settlements, agriculture, and forestry. It is situated between 106°21' and 107°31' eastern lon (...)
Cirebon, the first big harbour east of Jakarta, is a modest trade city with about 225,000 inhabitants. It's the only of the 16th century Jawanese city kingdoms, complete with palaces and royal families, which has survived the times. With this fact, Cirebon is the oldest royal city of the island; about three centuries older than both Yogyakarta and Solo. However without doubt it's one of the most i (...)
Malang was a popular stay for colonials. The city had a cool climate and is located on a nice, with vulcanoes surrounded plauteau, 450 metres above the pressing heat of the lowlands. In the east the active Gunung Semeru dominates the view; the Gunung Anjasmoro, Arjuna and Penderman in the north are covered with hotels and holiday places. Southwest of the city is the mys (...)
Since a long time good road connect the coastal area with Jawa's fertile inlands. In ancient times a number of roads lead from the kingdom of Mataram, the current area around Yogyakarta, through the mountains to small places at the coast. In this places of collection goods from the inlands were traded against metal objects, pottery, spices, clothes, and other goods from abroad.
The journey fr (...)
Located just 60 kilometers east of Yogyakarta, noble Solo (also known as Surakarta) generally receives far less attention from foreign visitors than its distinguished neighbor. This is curious from the point of view of most Javanese, for whom Solo is the older and more refined royal center - the arbiter of cultivated speech and aristocratic elegance in traditional Jawa.
This is partly because (...)
The main point of East Jawa is located at the northern coast, in Surabaya: a rising industrial and commercial centre, and the second largest city in Indonesia. With it's three milion residents this factory-, and seaport city has developed into the economical capital of entire Eastern Indonesia. The seaport ( Tanjung Perak'e.g. Cape Silver ) is a crossing of trade between the eastern islands (...)
27 May 2006 - Some 660,000 people have turned into homeless in Yogyakarta province after their houses were flattened by a powerful earthquake, killing more than 5,800 people, an official said on Wednesday. Saturday's magnitude-6.3 quake pounded more than 135,000 houses into piles of bricks, tiles and wood in less than a minute.
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Mount Merapi is a conical volcano in Central Java, Indonesia. It is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted 68 times since 1548. Its name means Mountain of Fire. It is very close to the city of Yogyakarta, and thousands of people live on the flanks of the volcano, with villages as high as 1700m above sea level. In light of the hazards it poses to populated areas, it has been designated a Decade Volcano. (...)
Since the first human entered Java about 1 milion years ago, it formed during the first 900.000 years the southeastern border of the Asian mainland. Due to loweing sealevels most islands of now were then connected to mainland Asia. This caused the prehistoric people to enter Java. At the end of last century, Dutchman Eugène Dubois found the remains of the now famous Java-man. (...)
Some say Jakarta is a beautifull city to live in, but a worthless place to visit. It's no coincidence that n some places t-shirts with the print "I have been in Jakarta for two days, and I survived", can be bought. What's wrong with these disappointed tourists? There are little adventurous people wich complain about poluted streets, many smoke, speeding, reckless crossing and other small misuses? (...)
Yogyakarta, or short Yogya is one of the two still excisting traditional royal cities of Central Jawa; the other is Solo. The city is in the centre of a wide belt of fertile ricefields, which are dominated in the north by the smouldering Gunung Merapi, and in the south is limited because of the rough Indian Ocean. The 3,169 sq.km. province of Yogyakarta counts 3,2 milion residents, on average more than one thousand per square kilometre. (...)
The sea crossing from East Java's mainland to the small island of Madura takes just half an hour. A regular ferry service transports cars and passengers across the narrow strait between Surabaya's harbour of Tanjung Perak and Kamal on Madura's south west coast. Measuring some 160 km in length and about 40 across at its widest point. (...)
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16 June 2008 - The observation team for the Mount Kelud volcano near the city of Kediri in central Java has decided not to lower it's alert status in the next two years. The head of the observation post, Khoirul Huda, explain that at this time there are still signs of the seemingly imminent eruption from half a year ago. This causes the character of the volcano to be instable.
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30 May 2008 - Indonesia's disastrous mud volcano is collapsing on itself, according to new research released on the second anniversary of the ever-growing environmental catastrophe. Every day, 100,000 cubic metres of hot, stinking sludge continues to ooze from the mud volcano, which burst through the earth two years ago during deep drilling at a nearby exploratory well, linked to Indonesia's richest man and also part-owned by Australian company Santos.
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22 March 2007 - After several months of quiet around Mount Merapi, scientists at near the volcano have raised it's status by one point to become two. This still indicates some activity in the volcano, but will at this point certainly not lead to an eruption on the run. From a distance the volcano looks the same, with a small plume of smoke rising from it's summit.
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