Rima, Salma and frog at Puncak

Banjir and Puncak

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January 19th 2009
On Monday Rima, Adee and Muhammad organised a trip to the mountians for us. We decided we should try to leave early to avoid the Jakarta traffic but when we got up we discovered that teh few hours of rain in the night had flooded the roads and neighbouring suburbs (banjir). This made meting up with Muhammad a bit tricky as he had to walk to somewhere where a car would go! Eventually we met up and ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more