Bagi saya, nasionalisme sekarang bukan sekedar marah kalau ikon budaya kita yang diberikan oleh nenek moyang jaman dahulu kala diaku-akuin oleh orang luar, dan bangga kalau orang luar tertarik sama kesenian kita. Nasionalisme seharusnya rasa percaya diri bahwa kita memiliki kemampuan yang sama dengan orang manapun di dunia,
— Joko Anwar
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Space is all big and shit, yo. I know most people are already aware of this, but sometimes you just need to put things in perspective.
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This is a story of boy meets girl.
Rippling across the equator for nearly 5000km, Indonesia encompasses more than 17,000 islands, two-thirds of which are inhabited and richly layered with character. The elaborate funeral ceremonies and timeless tradition of Sulawesi’s Toraja are light years from the surfing culture of Lombok. But so too are the mighty saddle-backed Batak mansions and volcanic lakes of Sumatra’s Danua Toba from the mummies and deeply etched gorges of Papua’s Baliem Valley. Bali’s resorts and restaurants pamper precocious style cats, while at the same moment threadbare backpackers are adopted by homestays in Kalimantan. Indonesia’s cities are in a constant state of urban evolution, where dense populations, technology and construction live in hectic symbiosis. But most of the archipelago’s territory remains unexplored, concealing a wealth of cultures and a myriad of landscapes. Oceanic rice fields and ancient sultanates in Java are humbled by haunting volcanic cones. Maluku’s alabaster beaches and desert islands remain pristine while the tourist trail heads elsewhere. The jungles of Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua are zoological wonders, revealing impish monkeys, stoic sun bears, leopards, orang-utans and remarkable marsupials. And then there are the micromoments, equally exquisite but entirely unexpected; impromptu English lessons with school children, instant friendships in crammed bemos, lending an ear to your becak rider… In Indonesia there is plenty of cause to pause, except when dodging hurtling traffic – but that’s all part of the adventure.
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