Rice fields and mountains.

 

I look outside ;

Rice fields and mountains

And a poem rises.

 

(Ajip Rosidi 1938)

 

 

Garoet.

 

 

Garoet,  homeland of my late father,

is a regency in West Java.

With its cool tropical climate, its highland

has large beautiful ricefields.

 

 

 

Pantjoran tea house.

 

Pantjoran was the gate to

Batavia Chinatown. This building was

the former Chung Hwa pharmacy that was

operated from 1928 to 1957, and then

left abandoned.

After restoration, it was opened again

as a tea house.

Margamukti.

 

Margamukti tea plantation is located in

Bandung regency.

 

Surya Indah.

 

 

Built  c1985 this resort villas

located in Cipanas, West java,

has since been our get away  

from crowded city life.

Sunrise at Borobudur.

 

Sunrise at Borobudur temple.

 

Plengkung Gading.

 

Plengkung Gading was one of five gates of

Jogjakarta's kraton/palace which was build in 1756,

by Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono I.

The gates connected the areas within the wall

and the outside

 

 

The Red Shop.

 

The Red Shop or 'Toko Merah' was built in 1730.

Located in old Batavia neighborhood,

this was the former home of

Dutch Governor General Van Imhoff.

In 1851 the building was purchased by Oey Liaw Kong,

the captain of Chinese society in Batavia,

was used as his residence and shop,

and was painted red.

Since then it was known as the Red Shop.

 

 

OLVEH,

 

Built between 1921-1922 for

Dutch Life Insurance Company OLVEH.

(Onderlinge Levensuerzekering Van Eigen Hulp)

This building was located in Pinangsia area,

near the Chinese community area, and

designed by LA Schoemaker and CP Wolf Schoemaker.

Metropole Cinema.

 

 

Metropole is the oldest surviving cinema building

in Jakarta. Located in Menteng area,

built in 1949 by architect Liaw Goan Sing.

Now, served as a multipurpose building complex.

 

Bengkulu exile house.

Located in Bengkulu, Southwest coast of Sumatra.

This early 20th century  house was the house of Lim Bwee Seng,

a daily goods supplier, then hired by the Dutch

as a residence for Ir.Soekarno

during his exile between 1938-1942.

 

 

Linggarjati Conference Museum.

Located in a sub-district between Cirebon

and Kuningan  in West Java,

this is Linggarjati Conference Museum,

which was held on October 1946,

between Indonesia and Netherlands.

The house was built between 1918-1921

in the foot of Mount Ciremai, first it was

used as a villa, then turned to a hotel later on.

 

Gedong Songo Temples,

This is the first temple of Gedong Songo,

a group of total 5 Hindu temples left

out of 9. The other 4 has become ruins.

Located in Central Java, this beautiful

group of temples was built between 8th-9th Centuries

out of volcanic stones.

The Thomas Parr monument.

 

This octagonal shaped monument is dedicated

to Thomas Parr, a British resident of Bengkulu.

Constructed in 1808, a year after his death.

 

 

Fort Marlborough.

 

 

Fort Marlborough is an English fort

located in Bencoolen/Bengkulu, Sumatra.

Built between 1713-1719 by the East India Company.

This rectangular lay out fort is made of bricks

50-180cm in thickness.

 

Wat Arun.

 

 

Wat Arun is a Buddhist temple

on the west bank of Chao Praya river, Bangkok.

 

 

Villa Isola.

Let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything,

rather than void.

(Denise Levertov)

 

A blue memory of Villa Isola.

Selabintana.

 

Set on a 20 hectare estate with some buildings dating from 1853

built by Aae Lenne, this garden hotel is located at the foot of Mount Gede,

and steps away from Sukabumi, a small city at West Java.