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Below are a series of eight areal pictures taken on 1 June 2006, just five days after the devastating earthquake struck the area. These pictures are taken over some villages in the Bantul area, the hardest hit area. Many villages are flattened and many more have sustained heavy damage, as you can see here. These pictures are taken from a helicopter bringing aid to these villages. (...)
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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 harbor 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. Since 2009, there is also a brigde between the islands. (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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The coastal city of Banten, eighty kilometers west of nowadays Jakarta, at the northern coast of the island Java, was the biggest center of transport of spices in the 16th and 17th century. At its peek, it was almost as important as Amsterdam. Nowadays Banten is only a small fishing village, which can't be found on most maps indicating economical importance. There are still old buildings left and (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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Some say Jakarta is a beautiful city to live in, but a worthless place to visit. It's no coincidence that in 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 which complain about polluted streets, smog, speeding, reckless crossing and other small problems? (...)
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Yogyakarta, or short Yogya is one of the two still existing traditional royal cities of Central Java; the other is Solo. The city is in the center of a wide belt of fertile rice fields, which are dominated in the north by the smoldering 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 million residents, on average more than one thousand per square kilometer. (...)
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Since the first human entered Java about 1 million years ago, it formed during the first 900.000 years the southeastern border of the Asian mainland. Due to lowering sea levels 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. (...)
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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. (...)
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