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Kalimantan’s Crown Jewels

The ces boat piloted by Acong slowly docked on the west side of Melak Harbor on the Mahakam River. Syachraini and I, the only passengers, leapt out of the small canoe with its 16-HP outboard motor and onto the wooden pier. It was now 12 noon. Since 7.45, we'd been traveling up the Mahakam from Muara Pahu in search of the pesut, or manatee (Orcaella brevirostris), a rare water mammal similar to a dolphin that lives only in the Mahakam. But though we'd had our visual radar on these past four hours, we hadn't seen even one...more

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  Bersepeda di Ayutthaya
  
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  Interpreting Films, Producing New Forms
  
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  Megibung Sebuah Tradisi Penuh Persatuan
  
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  ABG - A Spectacular Event
  
  Four years ago an Olympics Council of Asia (OCA) meeting in Beijing decided to name Indonesia the host of the 1st Asian Beach Games. Member countries felt that the Games would boost world opinion that Indonesia has emerged from the tragedy [the Bali bombings of 2002 and 2005]," Beach Games organising committee director Rita Subowo said...more