November 2010
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Slumdog Vacation →
Wisata ke perkampungan kumuh kian populer seiring kesuksesan film “Slumdog Millionaire”. Dari Jakarta hingga Rio, turis mengunjungi bedeng-bedeng reyot dan menyapa kaum miskin yang hidup…
Nov 9th
Slumtraveller →
I have left this blog and prevented myself to publish new posts. Now, I am writing again while volcanic ash of Merapi eruption arrived in Bandung city. This blog, slumtraveller, at first was meant…
Nov 6th
February 2010
2 posts
Stilt: Politics of Reclamation and Urban Slum... →
Stilt typology is an amphibious and vernacular built form, yet ambivalent. The architecture epitomizes the adaptation of coastal community to local climate and morphology to which they transform…
Feb 3rd
Baseco: Playground →
The heart of Baseco. The umbilical cord of children’ dreams. Dark veil of youth impropriety. Temporal members of this playground organically tell their personal story through the…
Feb 3rd
January 2010
14 posts
Baseco: ‘Nobody’ Dance in Slum →
Any song being continuously played in slum settlement is, most probably, a hit song. I heard this song, ‘Nobody’ performed by the Korean debut band Wonder Girls, played along from dusk till…
Jan 30th
Baseco: Come! →
Come and celebrate the life of an intellectual giant, Baseco! Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. (Ani DiFranco)
Jan 29th
map#1 →
Jan 29th
Baseco: Anak-anak Sang Anak Panah Kehidupan →
Mulai pukul 7 pagi, anak-anak tetangga di gang tempat kami tinggal mulai keluar rumah. Kakak-kakaknya yang sudah besar berangkat ke sekolah dan adik-adik kecil berkumpul dengan teman…
Jan 29th
Baseco: Ombak, Debu, dan Udara →
Pandangan umum dapat mengatakan bahwa daerah kumuh adalah tempat yang rawan untuk ditinggali – menjijikan, keras, suram, dan berbagai macam stigma yang lain – namun hidup di Baseco…
Jan 27th
Filipino Market: 3 PM to 9 PM →
Life for the vendors in Filipino market starts at 3 PM when chairs, tents, and foods come at once like marching ants. At night, it was even more beautiful. This is the heart of the city.
Jan 15th
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Jan 4th
“What can be said in New Year rhymes, That’s not been said a thousand...”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Jan 3rd
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December 2009
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“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven...”
– Walt Streightiff
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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A Floating City
Operated by PELNI (National Cruising Company), this old cruiser, KM Leuser, offers various people with different intentions inside. A public cruiser is a place where people meets and interacts, almost similar with a miniature of floating city. The experience of watercraft travelling, in a longer time period, is different with a bus, train, or airplane. Passenger classing evidently attests the...
Dec 30th
“Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.”
– Ani DiFranco
Dec 9th
November 2009
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Nov 30th
Death and All of Her Friends
Four women chin-wag  in the middle of the sea of tombstone. Penggilingan Public Cemetery, which was previously a swampy area of East Jakarta. They came from a slum settlement on the periphery. “There were only 10 graves and the bodies would float haphazardly during a heavy rain season” “We had no sanitation facilities. It was normal to go around this graveyard area, so we could hide and secretly...
Nov 30th
Nov 30th
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close...”
– Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)
Nov 30th
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