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Street in the heart of the Dutch colonial old town of Surabaya, with its Dutch colonial architecture. Specifically here Chinatown.
Surabaya was already a significant port of the Hindu Majapahit Empire (13th century to 1500s), whose capital was nearby. It was also one of the first ports on the North Coast of Java to receive significant Islamic missionary activities. In particularly, the Sufi saint Ampel from the 15th century was famous for spreading Islam from here to Java. After the fall of the Majapahit Empire, it became part of a Muslim Javanese successor state, the Mataram Sultanate. The Dutch, who slowly colonized Indonesia from Batavia/Jakarta, conquered it only in the 1750s. Soon, however, Surabaya grew into an important colonial port exporting sugar cane and tobacco from the interior.
The Dutch colonial Surabaya was divided roughly in 3 to 4 neighbourhoods: the walled Dutch town, Chinatown where the Chinese traders lived, the Muslim Ampel neighbourhood to the north, which had also an Arab community, and the old Javanese neighbourhood to the south, a remnant of the pre-colonial town.
In this street, houses from the 18th to 19th century are preserved, in a Dutch tropical style. Around the corner, splendid Art Nouveau, Art Deco, ecclectic and early modernist buildings are abundant.
Surabaya was the birthplace of Sukarno, the first president of Indonesia. Surabaya was one of the first cities in the Dutch-East Indies to proclaim independence from the Dutch in 1945, after the Japanese occupiers left. This history is still much celebrated in town.
Today, Surabaya is the second largest and most important city of Indonesia and is a modern city with much history preserved. There are lots of young people who are stimulating a vibrant coffee culture, with local Indonesian Arabica beans.
This coffee shop built by the moles is sooooo cute
Visit this location at Protected Land - Java Sprockets in Second Life
Indonesia - Java.
Yogyakarta - Kraton: the palace of the sultans is the cultural and political heart of the city.
Batavia Java
1920's Mack
500 GPM
This illustration is from a Mack fire apparatus catalog. Batavia is now Jakarta, Indonesia.
East Java, 23 Jan 1974; 2 C12, Hartmann 2-6-0T's 1890's seven year old boys like 75 year old Tanks! C11.05 Lurking in the shed.
FMM R3.05 / 74
A couple of Java Sparrows hang out near the pool at our condo on Maui.
Also know as the Java finch, Java rice sparrow or Java rice bird.
This was about as best I could do with only 200mm.
Lonchura oryzivora
Okay it's friday and I know someone out there in flickr land is a coffee lover.
I'd love to know two things:
a) Where did you get you morning coffee?
b) How many cups do you have in a day?
How that java gets you through the day!
Have a fabulous weekend
This image is for the groups Embracing Sunday Mornings, Sliders Sunday, and for Theme of the Week's theme "Lyrically Inspired."
My inspiration song, made famous in 1940 by the Ink Spots, and written by Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, is Java Jive.
I love coffee, I love tea
I love the Java Jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup (Boy!)...
A probably 19th century (but possibly 18th century) house dating from the Dutch colonial period in Surabaya. The style reflects a merge between Dutch gable houses and local domestic architecture, and is adapted to the tropical climate. It is located in the charming and walkable "heritage kampung".
Probably, no Dutch person ever lived in this house. The house is located in a traditional, historical Javanese neighbourhood of the colonial town, since the colonial city was segregated into different neighbourhoods home to different ethnicities en religions (f.e.: the Dutch neighbourhood, Chinatown, the Malay-Arab Islamic neighbourhood, the Javanese neighbourhood).
What I personally love about these houses that they resemble very much some town houses in Willemstad, Curaçao (another former Dutch colonial town and UNESCO world heritage site), and the similar "cas di cunucu" of neighbouring Aruba (also a former Dutch colony), where I have my roots.
Surabaya was found during the mighty Hindu-Buddhist Majapahit Empire (13th to 16th century), when it served as a port nearby its fabulous capital. During this time, it received Muslim Sufi missionaries, such as Ampel, who preached here and thus found an Islamic base in Java from where the religion was further spread. The historic Ampel neighbourhood still has one of the oldest mosques of Indonesia. The town came into the hands of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the early 18th century, who further developped the town and introduced fascinating Dutch colonial architecture, but at the expense of the population and according to seggregation. Surabaya was the second most important port due to the export of sugar and tobacco from the interior. It was from here that, after the Japanese occupation in WWII, that the Indonesians and Sukarno declared independence from The Netherlands in 1945.
Name: Java Sparrow
Scientific: Lonchura oryzivora
Malay: Ciak Jawa
Family: Estrildidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2018): Endangered
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Java Indonesia - Baron beach
Baron beach lies in Kemandang Village, Tanjungsari district about 23 km in the South of Wonosari city. Baron beach is the first beach that would be found in the junction of Baron, Kukup, Sepanjang, Drini, Krakal and Sundak beaches area. It is a bay with big wave. Baron beach is popular as fish catching area. text from indonesia tourism offical website
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