The photo shows the origin of your expensive car tire. It made from rubber tree, typically planted in rows using single improved seedling. In Indonesia, rubber garden can be easily found in Sumatra and Kalimantan.
The scene was taken in Jambi, Sumtara island last year.
Prambanan temple is being rehabilitated. A sequence of earthquake hit Yogyakarta areas including Prambanan temple in 27 May 2006 causing major damage and about 5000 deaths. World's society supported the reconstruction of the largest Hindu temple compound in Indonesia.
I took this picture in front of US Embassy in Jakarta about a year ago. At that time, people of Indonesia showing their sympathy to thousands victims of Palestinian when Gaza attacked by Israeli military forces. Indonesian also send humanity massages to US Embassy.
A morning scene at Yogyakarta train station. Having an overnight travel from Jakarta, you'll welcomed by old buildings and maybe a morning with clear sky hangs over like this.
The police guards US Embassy in Jakarta in a 2007 demonstration condemning the silence of US government on the Isreal's attack to Gaza causing over a thousand palestinians died.
I put a shoot using pocket digital camera of Olympus in landscape mode. I find that instead of long experience in photographic, enough photo equipment we need to find remarkable moment. A morning scene may not enough, but its still interest me.
This is what people called about jungle rubber --a type of forest-like land use consisting high value product of rubber. Farmers in Jambi, a province in Sumatra island of Indonesia, maintain the land since it performing a support for their livelihood.
I prefer to use term of Green Mosque of Berau rather than other. The mosque become well-known building in the center of a rich-coal city of East Kalimantan. This well known building characterized by several strong towers, contras with surrounding areas.