Facing Sumba

Lamboya, West-Java, February 2010.

Pasola chief

The rato, a priest and village head of the Marapu religion in Sumba.

Lamboya, West-Java, February 2010.

Pasola on the beach

It all started on the beach then it moved to the 'highlands'.

Lamboya region, Sumba Island, February 2010.

Jakarta survival kid

Jakarta is located in the wrong time zone! The morning prayer call starts at 4:10AM in the winter and around 4:40AM in the summer. Much too early for a modern life where work starts between 8AM to 9AM. If you plan to move to Jakarta or most of the other parts of Indonesia you may need ear plugs. Prayer calls are usually noisy and not part of a 'quality control system'. You may hear very unholy sounds (not only because of substandard loudspeakers) and lot's of croaking depending on the ability of the muezzin. Compared to Arabic countries I found less talented مؤذن in Indonesia.

Wayang Orang Bharata on stage

Scenes from the story of Harjuna Wiwaha, part of the Indian epic Mahabharata.

Jakarta, February 2010.

Wayang Orang Bharata

Behind the scene.

Punakawan (two of the five jokers)

One of the nine fairies.

Arjuna's smile.

Jakarta, Indonesia, February 2010.

Why Germany?

Why Germany? Why Manila?

Berlin, Germany, December 2009.

Jugendstil?

Ms Jugendstil from the Greek Apollo temple (540 - 530 B.C.) in Didyma (today's Didim in Turkey).

Neues Museum, Berlin, January 2010.

Water balancing act

Lamboya, West-Java, February 2010.

New marching order also for tourists

Beijing, April 2010.

Cleaning Beijing

Tough job to clean heavily polluted Beijing.

Beijing, April 2010.

The girl and the bottles

Beijing, April 2010.

Grey view onto Beijing

Beijing, April 2010.

UNDERSTOOD ?!

Beijing, April 2010.

Facts you really want to know.

188 meters with wheel chair to reach a couple in a toilet.

Beijing, April 2010.

Soldier engaged in useful work

Beijing, April 2010.

The pleasure of chicken class flight: Cathay go...

Cathay Pacific's new laying battery cages.

Do you really want to pay business class prices for this?

Flying over Manila's gated communities

Manila, March 2010.

Cleaning windows

Manila, March 2010.

Buy me a cobra please

Jakarta, March 2010.

Chinese man

Jakarta, March 2010.

Making music

Jakarta, March 2010.

Kampung inner city Jakarta

Innercity life.

Jakarta, March 2010.

Preparing real steaks

Manila, March 2010.

Learning to walk

Cirebon, West-Java, October 2009.

Erotic shower

Shower for two.

Jakarta, March 2010.

Tube slide in a shopping mall

Seven storey slide: You will be faster than any store detective...

Jakarta, March 2010.

Het is volbracht

Old Dutch cemetery (Tanah Abang), Jakarta 2010.