A nice journey of Philippe from Jakarta (the huge town with its traffic jams, the level crossing-the hairdresser and the barrier guards-,the talk with the young Indonesian man about Jakarta (the rising waters, the floods, the moving of the town to another island) to Sulawesi (the construction of the new railway, the talk with a landowner about the ceremony with the ancestors, and the meeting with the man in his "Tongkonan"-wooden house on stilts with the the shape of a boat, the visit to the sick father-the coffin and the preparing of the burial ceremony) passing by Garut (the ram flights,Siska the sheep breeder, the fighting rules, the strong music and the dances), by the travel by train and the talk with the passenger of Flores island about the Indoinesian identity (the common Indonesian language, the cultural diversity, the secular state), and by the Mount Bromo (the meeting with the two farmers producing chives and Chinese cabbage on the volcanic soil, the climbing of the volcano, the altar-the offerings of incense and vegetables,the prayers for the health of their families).
—zutterjp48