This series is taken from my time with people from the Baduy, Mentawai, and Sasak tribes on the islands of Java, Siberut, and Lombok in Indonesia. I lived with them for a week each and managed to gain a small insight into their ways of life. Even though we couldn’t converse through English, my aim was to relate, observe and befriend these lovely people who isolate themselves within the surrounding (natural) environment, and live peacefully away from the noise and distraction of today’s first world technological reliance.
The draw of Indonesia is its diversity of people and sheer scale of geographic and ethnic variety. It is such a huge country, made up of thousands of islands, volcanoes, multiple religions, tribes, and cultures, draw-dropping beauty from end to end, and thousands of years of fractured history. My fascination with it deepens further every time I visit and I have wanted to explore deeper and deeper into this intriguing place ever since I came to live in Southeast
By Harry Jacques, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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SALIGUMA, Indonesia, April 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - C utting through the glassy water of a mangrove-fringed inlet on the east coast of Indonesia’s Siberut island, Mateus Sabojiat and Anjelina Sadodolu arrived home by canoe to Saliguma village.
Back in their house, Sadodolu lit a wood fire to boil water before her husband left for work at the local government office.
“The electric power is on only when it is time to sleep,” said Sadodolu.
The couple in their forties, who have six children, live just a few hundred metres from Indonesia’s first power plant designed to be fuelled by bamboo, one of three such facilities built to bring electricity to isolated villages in Siberut.
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Betting on bamboo: Indonesian villages struggle to source safe, green power
Students use a bamboo raft to cross a river at a village in Siron, Aceh province, on Feb 17, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
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