No More Punk and Mohawk Hairstyle in Aceh

You'll never see punk with mohawk hairstyle no more in Aceh. Indonesia. They all became hairless like baby born :p. What they were look like in western country perspective is just a style, nothing more nothing less. But in Aceh, they have their own law and regulation to prevent people look and behave like any punk we know. So, when punk guys came to Aceh to attend music performance, they got captured by police and what happened next was like pictures below :

History Style (in Aceh)

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Indonesian Children : Suffer in Heaven

If you see a child starving in some African country, maybe you feel very sad, although it is reasonable considering the situation there. Most people who live there are suffering. What happened in Indonesia is more pathetic. Children starving and feel the pain among those who are affluent. The gap with no solution, as well as corruption.

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Ngaben, Ceremony of Cremation in Bali

One of the most spectacular ceremonies in Bali is probably the cremation ceremony. In Balinese this ceremony is called Ngaben. Of course, like any ceremony in Bali, the cremation ceremony’s size and spectacle depends on the importance of the deceased, and the money spend. While the poorest of the Balinese are buried, and finally cremated in group cremations, the people with some more money to spend are cremated right away. One thing is for sure, the body needs to be burned to set the soul free from worldly ties, and to start a new life in a world that is supposed to be as beautiful as Bali itself. Ngaben or the Cremation Ceremony is the ritual performed to send the dead through the transition to his next life.

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Denpasar Bali Taxi Operator - Services

Here are the Taxi operator phone numbers, reliable transportation service at Denpasar you can choose. 

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Surabaya Taxi Services : Phones and Addresses

Surabaya has many taxi operator. You can choose from the list below :

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Floating Market Towards Extinction

Floating market is one of unique tourist object in Indonesia. Only two locations in Kalimantan (Borneo) you can see this traditional markets. At Kuin, Barito river, and Lok Baintan Village. These days, those markets still exist, but decreasing rapidly. Modernization have made these markets lost their customers. Land market and boat that cuts through the market area are blamed for this situation. Without government assistance, these kind of markets will be extinc.

Motorbike Rental for US$ 5 a Day

The best way to enjoy sunshine while traveling at tropical island is by riding a motorbike. Motorbike is simple, cheap, fast, and flexible to explore any places, even with narrow road deep down the kampongs. In Indonesia, botorbike is rented for US$5 a day. With 2 liters of gas, you can explore the whole city side. If you don't have any licence to ride motorbike, you can use ojeg, a motorbike taxi. You rent a motorbike include the driver.

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Solo - Surakarta Taxi Service

For you who are traveling to Solo, Central Java, and want to use a taxi, here is the list :

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Mount Tambora, World Biggest Volcano Eruption

On April 10, 1815, Mount Tambora eruption killed at least 92000 people, that is definitely the biggest volcano eruption on modern history. Tambora eruption is the only one that has level 7 on Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) in modern history.

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Jogja Taxi Service : Phones and Addresses

Yogyakarta or simply Jogja is a City, a province that have many interesting places to visit. There are many kind of transportation services you can choose, but for you who need a standard fast-reliable service, you can use taxi ora cab. Many taxi operators available at Yogyakarta, all of them operate full 24 hours with regular argo.

For you who stay in Jogja, or being there for vacation, here are addresses and phones of Taxi service in Yogyakarta / Jogja.

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Ulun Danu Temple at Tabanan Bali

My collection of Bali pictures has increase in number since my net connection got better everyday. Today i present you with beautiful Ulun Danu temple pictures ( or wallpaper? It's huge). This temple located at Tabanan, an area that are less expensive comparing with south area of Bali like Kuta or Nusa Dua.

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5 Top Indonesian Bridges

There's no more Kutai Kartanegara Bridge, but Indonesia stil have many other bridges which are famous and beautiful enough to get an attention. Here they are :

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Indonesian Rupiah Will Loose 3 Zeros

Central Bank of Indonesia has been working on it. Design the process so the transformation of rupiah running smoothly and finish about 10 years from today. Central bank will remove the zeros on Indonesian money. From Rp 1000 become Rp 1. From US$1=Rp 8800 to US$1=Rp 8.80

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Indonesian iPhone Distributor and Service Center Location

In Indonesia, iPhone is not so popular comparing with Nokia, Samsung, or Blackberry. But people outhere (including you maybe) love iPhone and bring it wherever you go. So, i think you need to know about iPhone service center in Indonesia, just in case you got trouble with your iPhone.

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Airline Offices at Bali

Honestly, i rather confuse how to call these list. Airline operator, airline service, airline offices, or any others. What you western people prefer, i chose to call this airline offices. Ah, whatever....Anyway, here are Airline offices that available at Bali : 

Air New Zealand

address : Gedung Wisti Sabha, 756-170 Ngurah Rai International Airport

phone : +62-361-289636

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Immigration Travel Tips to Enter Indonesia

To enter Indonesia, visas are required except for the nationals of 48 countries namely Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Hong Kong SAR, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom (Great Britain), United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Venezuela, Yugoslavia and Taiwanese holding MFA//M passports. The visa requirement is also waived for other nationals from friendly countries, attending a conference which has received official approval.

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Lembeh Straits Scuba Diving Manado Indonesia

Scuba Diving is not cheap vacation on our perspective. Even we have very good coral reef to explore, sometimes our richness of beautiful places around cannot explored well coused by many circumtances. But luckily, some foreigner has good stuff and expose it on the net so we know better what we don't know about ours. Sound sad, but that is true. here is nice article published on underwater photography about lembeh strait, so, if you have time, you can enjoy this place someday.



Mantis shrimp with eggs, photo by Mike Bartick

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Raja Ampat Underwater Photos by Kevin Lee

Raja Ampat is probably the most interesting place to dive since it have so much variety of underwater creature that nowhere else ever have. However, to get there is not easy. And for the efford, Kevin Lee got what he deserve. Beautiful photos of Underwater Raja Ampat Site. This already published in underwater photography site, so i just expose this lil bit more here.

Tiny juvenile frogfish. Underwater macro photos were taken with a Nikon D300, 60mm macro lens and a 1.4x teleconverter.

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Kopi Luwak, Most Expensive Coffee

Kopi is Coffee in Indonesian language, and Luwak is a kind of civet which is considered as pest among Indonesian farmer. Kopi luwak itself refers to coffee which produced by luwak, which only eat the finest, the ripest, the reddest coffee cherries available on the plantations. The excrete of Luwak's digestion process is what we call Kopi Luwak. What? The most expensive coffee is coming from animal's ass hole? Haha,.. you are right. The enzymes in the animals' stomachs add something unique to the coffee's flavor through fermentation.

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Longest Toilet in the World

It's strange, but just for knowledge, i'll tell you this. We have longest toilet in the world. A long the river are toilets. Shoot from the top, got this :

What you got downstream are lots of shit, literally...