Slideshow video: Waking up in Indonesia

Music

Gending Moon by Gamelan Nyai Saraswati (CC BY 3.0)

Photographs and images

Images 1-14 NSW Department of Education

15 – Lee Siebert, Smithsonian Institution (Public domain)

16 – Kevin Aurell | (CC BY 1.0)

17 – Jack Merridew (Public domain)

18 – rbrudolph | (CC BY 1.0)

19 – sorcel | (CC BY 1.0)

20 – ihsanadity | (CC BY 1.0)

Text version

The words ‘Waking up in Indonesia’ are written in large type across an Indonesian topeng mask of gold and red.

The music continues throughout the rest of the slideshow as the images rapidly change:

  • Wall carvings of people in minimal clothing and traditional headwear

  • Bowls of Indonesian food on a restaurant table

  • Entrance gate featuring an intricate wall carving of a topeng mask and flowers

  • A man sits on an elephant with a saddle

  • Large pot of bubur, a type of porridge for breakfast

  • Ancient stone temples with square base and pointed top observed by tourists

  • Two employees of a royal palace wearing uniform walk bare foot across a courtyard

  • Large glass bottles of traditional medicine with labels stuck on with tape

  • A gecko on a stone floor

  • Photo taken from a temple shows luscious fields of trees stretching to mountains in the clouds

  • A pitched-roofed hall filled with numerous golden gamelan instruments

  • Man in red uniform cooks martabak by turning them in oil on a large pan

  • Two monks in orange robes with shaved heads walk down stone steps in front of tourists in plain clothes

  • Stratavolcano rises above rice fields in Java island

  • Skyscrapers and medium-density apartment blocks in Jakarta

  • Human-sized colourful statues of mythological demons are paraded by school children at a festival

  • Indonesian women sell fresh fruit and vegetables at a market

  • A variety of fried Indonesian foods and rice served on a banana leaf and woven cane plate

  • A young Indonesian woman wearing a wide brimmed straw hat stands in a paddy field with oxen

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