Faces of Indonesia (1972, 1994, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018)

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1972 (Java and Sulawesi):

 

In the port of Surabaya (eastern Java).

 

In Ujung Pandang (Makassar), Sulawesi

 

In Polaweli.

 

On the ″road″ between Polaweli and Mamasa.

 

Toraja children in their house in Mamasa.

 

On a market day in Mamasa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woman with a fancy hat (worn by many women in that region) in a market between Mamasa and Rantepao.

 

Ceremony in a village near Rantepao.

 

Toraja festival near Rantepao.

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Men showing their roasters before cock fighting.

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Fun and sadness during a Toraja funeral ceremony. Many buffaloes and pigs are killed for the occasion, below the coffin of the deceased..

 

 

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Group photos in two villages along a trail between Rantepao and Palopo.

 

 

1994 (Irian Jaya, now called Papua):

 

Me with Dani people near the village of Anguruk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1994 (Sulawesi):

Between Gimpu and Masamba in central Sulawesi.

 

 

2009 (Sulawesi):

 

At a Toraja funeral event, near Rantepao.

 

Family in their house.

 

Woman harvesting insects after a heavy rain, and eating them alive.

 

 

 

 

 

2010 (Seram):

 

Men in the village of Huahulu wearing their traditional red bandana.

 

Man from the village of Hanikeh.

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People in Hanikeh.

 

Traditional ceremony ran by the head of the village of Hanikeh prior to my ascent of Mount Binaiya.

 

2015 (Yogyakarta, Java):

 

In the streets of Yogyakarta.

 

Pasar Ngasem, a large bird market in Yogyakarta.

 

People spend hours here with friends and family, or alone, to listen to songbirds.

 

 

Men playing kenongs in a gamelan ensemble in the Kraton of Yogyakarta.

 

 

2018 (Ternate and Tidore):

 

In the market of Kota Ternate.

 

 

 

 

Men at a wedding in Kota Ternate.

 

Girls selling local delicacies in Ternate.

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On the deck of a motorbike ferry between Ternate and Tidore and below the deck.

 

 

Man in the highlands of Tidore.

 

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