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A dragonfly that has Brown and Orange colors with Yellow Stripes body, Green Eyes with Polkadot Inside.
One of their common rest place is on top of cut branch of a plant
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On Flickr's Explore October 6th, 2016 together with my previous photo. Thanks everyone!
Sikunir is a mountain at Dieng Plateau. This in the second highest plateau in the world. Very easy to reach the peak, we only need to walk about a half hour then you will get the most amazing moment & scenery of sindoro, merapi & merbabu mountain. :D
Candi Sukuh is a Hindu temple located 39km east of Surakarta city, and situated on a western slope of Mr. Lawu. Therefore, it commands a nice view of a nearby village and farmland.
Ancient temple ruins connected to South Indian civilization, on the verge of being devoured by farmers, as potatoes are taking over the economy from cultural tourism.
Picture taken from Arjuna temple complex, Dieng highlands, Central Java, Indonesia.
Long sleep, and don't know when will operated again...
at year 1927-1928, Staatssporrwegen (SS) company bring 30 units of this locomotive to Indonesia from Werkspoor and SLM factory. The SS give special number to this locomotive with code SS1600. The route of this locomotive are hill route in West Java area such as Cibatu-Cikajang-Garut, and Purwakarta-Padalarang. This locomotive is capable to pulling the train with weighing 1300 tons.
The allocation of this locomotive at year 1969-1971 found in :
Cibatu 2 unit
Banjar, 1 unit
Purwakarta, 4 unit
Purwokerto, 10 unit
Ambarawa, 3 unit
Madiun, 2 unit
Sidotopo, 3 unit
at year 1981, CC5022 are donated to the Utrecht (Netherland) from Purwokerto as friendship between Indonesia and Netherland.
This locomotive have maximum speed 55km/h, with 3 type of brakes (manual, vaccum, and riggenbach) and use coal/Wood/residual oil for the boiler burning when operational at the past.
Water capacity in the tender is 25 m3. The type of the whistle is D&RGW 5 Chrime with 1200hp for the power.
The effect of rationalization policy from steam locomotive to the diesel locomotive, make CC50 must retired from their operational. In the same year, Cibatu-Garut route are start to closed. They are changed with diesel locomotive.
At year 2023, Cibatu-Garut are active again, but CC50 is not operational tu pull the train, and changed with GE locomotives (CC206) 😢.
At present, from 30 units of CC50, only 3 units still persist. The other CC50 have no maintenance. The CC5001 is in TMII (Taman Mini Indonesia Indah) Museum, Jakarta. The CC5029 is in Ambarawa Museum, Semarang, Central Java. The CC5022 is in Utrecht Museum, Netherland.
Sunset Muslim prayer calling time at the great mosque of Central Java, Indonesia
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Marhaban Ya Ramadhan Kareem
A crater lake surrounded by myths, Sumur Jalatunda is a niche fractured crater filled by rainwater millions years ago, depth is varying from 90 to 200 meters.
One myth is long time ago an evil queen made humans sacrifice to the lake, and her spirit dwell on a cave near the crater. A devout person meditate solely on her would have his/her wishes fulfilled.
Other myth is the belief that the crater is a portal gate to another realm, the dungeons of the dragons.
The locals took this seriously and the whole place is fenced and taken care by a spiritual guardian "juru kunci".
Picture taken from Sumur Jalatunda, Dieng Plateau, Central Java, Indonesia.
A question about Borobudur that is still unanswered by far is how the condition around the temple was at the beginning of its foundation and why at the time of it's finding the temple was buried.
Some hypotheses claim that Borobudur in its initial foundation was surrounded by swamps and it was buried because of Merapi explosion. It was based on Kalkutta inscription with the writing 'Amawa' that means sea of milk.
The Sanskrit word was used to describe the occurrence of disaster. The sea of milk was then translated into Merapi lava. Some others say that Borobudur was buried by cold lava of Merapi Mountain.
The main temple has square ground plan. The entrance into the garbhagriha (main room) is located on west side, flanked with two false window, or niches adorned with kala-makara decoration. On the north, east, and southern walls there are three niches on each side also adorned in kala-makara style. The center niche are slightly higher than other two flanking niches. These niches are now empty, probably these niches once contains Hindu murti (statues).
A flight of stairs flanked with two makaras were designed to reach the main door that is 1.2 meters above the ground. On top of the door there are carving of Kala's head connected to makaras body on each side of the gate. These kala-makara pattern is commonly found in temples of ancient Java. Inside the makara's mouth there are small parrots carved.
Inside the main chamber there is a large linga and yoni adorned with naga serpent. The union of phallic linga and yoni symbolize the cosmic sacred union between Shiva and Parvati as his shakti. There are three niches on each sides of inner wall in the room, each niches flanked with a pair of devata, Hindu lesser gods and goddesses flying toward the niches.
The roof of main temple is arranged in three ascending terraces decreased in size to the top forming stepped pyramid. On each sides there are 3 ratnas on each step, a larger ratna crowning the roof. On the margin between temple body and the roof adorned with floral patterns and gana (dwarf). On the edge of the roof there are antefixes with floral frames, inside the antefix there are images of Hindu gods bust with hand position holding flowers.
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Borobudur is one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world. Founded by a king of the Saliendra dynasty, it was built to honour the glory of both the Buddha and its founder, a true king Bodhisattva. The name Borobudur is believed to have been derived from the Sanskrit words vihara Buddha uhr, meaning the Buddhist monastery on the hill. Borobudur temple is located in Muntilan, Magelang, and is about 42 km from Yogyakarta city.
This colossal temple was built between AD 750 and 842: 300 years before Cambodia's Angkor Wat, 400 years before work had begun on the great European cathedrals. Little is known about its early history except that a huge army of workers worked in the tropical heat to shift and carve the 60,000 m3 of stone. At the beginning of the 11th century AD, because of the political situation in Central Java, divine monuments in that area, including the Borobudur Temple became completely neglected and given over to decay. The Sanctuary was exposed to volcanic eruption and other ravages of nature. The temple was not rediscovered until the 19th century. A first restoration campaign, supervised by Theodor van Erp, was undertaken shortly after the turn of the century. A second one was led more recently (1973-82).
A harmonious marriage of stupas, temple-mountain and the ritual diagram, this temple complex was built on several levels around a hill which forms a natural centre. The first level above the base comprises five square terraces, graduated in size and forming the base of a pyramid. Above this level are three concentric circular platforms crowned by the main stupa. Stairways provide access to this monumental stupa. The base and the balustrades enclosing the square terraces are decorated in reliefs sculpted in the stone. They illustrate the different phases of the soul's progression towards redemption and episodes from the life of Buddha. The circular terraces are decorated with no fewer than 72 openwork stupas each containing a statue of Buddha.
Stylistically the art of Borobudur is a tributary of Indian influences (Gupta and post-Gupta styles). The walls of Borobudur are sculptured in bas-reliefs, extending over a total length of 6 km. It has been hailed as the largest and most complete ensemble of Buddhist reliefs in the world, unsurpassed in artistic merit, each scene an individual masterpiece. The narratives reliefs on the main walls read from the right to left, those on the balustrade from left to right. This was done for the purpose of the Pradaksina, the ritual circumambulation which the pilgrims make moving on the clockwise and keeping the sanctuary to the right.
The Karmawibangga reliefs on the hidden foot are devoted to the law of karma. The Lalitavistara series do not provide a complete biography of the Buddha, from the Hushita heaven and end his sermon in the Deer Park near the Benares. Jataka are stories about the Buddha before he was born as Prince Sidharta. Awadana are similar to Jataka, but the main figure is not the Boddhisatva, and the saintly deeds are attributed to other legendary persons.
The stories are compiled in the Dvijavadana (Glorious Heavenly Acts) and the Awadana Sataka (Hundred Awadanas). The first twenty panels in the lower series of the first gallery depict, the Sudhanakumaravadana. The series of reliefs covering the wall of the second gallery is devoted to Sudhana's tireless wanderings in search of the Highest Perfect Wisdom. The story is continued on the wall and balustrade of the third and fourth galleries. Its depiction in most of the 460 panels is based on the holy Nahayana text Gandavyuha, the concluding scenes being derived from another text, the Badracari. (Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC)
Location: Jubelan, Sumowono, Semarang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia.
State of preservation: The main temple has been restored up to its superstructure. Of the secondary shrine just north of it are preserved the base and parts of the temple body. The other structures are reduced to their bases.
The group is constituted of 6 buildings, all of them facing west. The four northern buildings are in a row and on an upper terrace, while the two southern ones are not in a line with the others and are located slightly lower.
The northern group is composed of one main temple and three secondary buildings. Still further south there are two bases, though not on a line with the preceding four structures.