More photos of Cilincing

PHOTOS !!!

To top things off, here's a variety of photos from my experiences in Indonesia.
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Jakarta

Above, fancy modern Jakarta....

And directly behind and below the modern skyscrapers... the slums!

Some people live like this...            ...and others live like this...             .... or this!

Jakarta is a city of contradictions!

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People and Faces

My buddies in the kampung (slum quarters):

More people

1.  Thumbs up for Obama!      2.  Indonesian tourists from Sulawesi, who wanted their picture taken with me (to them, I'm a tourist attraction!)       3.  My buddies, the dockworkers

City Life

 The infamous Jakarta "macet" (traffic jam)...     with a row of bajaj 'taxi' vehicles

 And here's a typical neighborhood 'thug', playing traffic cop (they 'stop' traffic to 'let you out' or in and demand money in return, one of many rackets going around town)

                                    Man sleeping on bike


Photo above left by Renny Antoni

Good old-fashioned transportation by 'becak' rickshaws

   

 And the kids!

 Street performing kids in one of the main squares of Jakarta

Sita and Rama (shawow puppets)

All photos by AZ except where noted

Sampai jumpa, Indonesia!

Well, another great adventure has come to an end!  A month of clowning around with kids so full of excitement and joy at our special visit.  This is what makes it all so worth it -- seeing the excited joyful faces of the children jumping up and down upon seeing us arrive and running after us as we leave, and, of course, laughing during our play.  Then there are some children who are shy and even apprehensive but after a little while they start to smile and laugh and want to play and wear a clown nose, too!  This is so heart-warming to see.  The joy is to share an experience together and make a connection.  Even if only for a brief moment.   I hope that I have contributed a little to these children's lives.

Over the course of a month, we have all together reached out to over two thousand children.

Here are some of them:

All photos above by Renny Antoni (except boy with clown nose in red T-shirt by AZ)

Last show in Jakarta!

On Saturday, February 27, we headed back to Cilincing to do a show at the elementary school!

This is the same school where the younger children go who we've been working with over the past few weeks.  Finally they get to see us goof around in a performance for them!  We all had a blast.