Tur Klinic: My Debut as a Filmmaker

I made a video!It's titled, "Tur Klinic." Can you guess what it means? Ok I'll tell you: "Clinic Tour." Bahasa Indonesia is a wonderfully phonetic language with many English cognates.As a volunteer at Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), I've split my time between education and media....

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Rainforest's Rebirth

Heat rises from the wet ground and pulses down through black shade cloth. I can feel thermal energy surrounding me in waves. Welcome to the tropics. Meranti saplings.I am standing in ASRI’s lokasi reboisasi, the reforestation nursery. Black plastic pouches, known as polybags,...

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Spirit: from Balinese Frisbee to a Bornean Hospital

It was the end of one era, and not quite the beginning of the next. After my coral propagation class on Gili Trawangan, I dove into a strangely familiar netherworld that transcends time and space. I'm talking about ultimate frisbee.Tuesday Beach Ultimate the week before I left...

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