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1439 4/12/2018: Our ferry “KMP Kasuari
- Pasifik
IV” approaches Manokwari in the
- West Papua Province on the eastern
part of
- the Bird’s Head Peninsula. In the background
- the Arfak
Mountains (9'695 ft. [2'955m])
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1440 View from the ferry deck to
- the big Aston
Hotel complex and
- the parliament of Manokwari City
- on top of the
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1441 Not for our budget,
but visiting
- is free: Emil in front of the swimming
- pool of the
Aston Hotel, the most
- expensive accommodation in town
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1442 The yellow ship lift (ro-ro ramp)
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leveling the tide marks the landing place
- of the port of Manokwari.
Almost all
ASDP
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1443 Watched by officers and crew
- members our Landcruiser is leaving the
- hull of “KMP Kasuari Pasifik IV” where
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spent 13½ hours (= 150 miles [240km]).
- It was its 313. sea journey
since begin
- of our journey on 10/16/1984
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1444 Emil “squeezes” our
LandCruiser
- past passengers with bulky baggage,
- vehicles collecting
freight and food
- stalls out of the port. Sometimes
- it works just by
a whisker!
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View from the “Table Mountain”
- (Gunung Meja) over Sawaisu Bay
with the
- front of modest stilt houses in the central
- district of Sanggeng. Manokwari (metro)
- is home to about 300’000 people …..
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….. this narrow city alleyway
- leads directly down to Wosi Bay
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The At-Taqwa mosque with its dome
- watches over Wosi
Bay (Manokwari).
- In Christian dominated Manokwari
- mosques are in the
minority (West
- Papua: Christians ~61%, Muslim ~38%)
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It is lunchtime and not anymore
- busy. Despite of it the lady
vendor behind
- her stall with piled up lychees is hoping
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customers
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This almost toothless guy
- at the Manokwari market insist to
- have his picture taken, yet not
- asking for money
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The lady vendor has a good reason
- to laugh. Her betel nuts are
going to be
- sold as good as certain. Mixed with a
- green mustard
stick and crushed coral lime
- they generate a mild stimulant –
- similar to the qat leaves in Yemen
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1451 A mobile street vendor. They are a
- common
sight in Indonesia. Often small
- dishes are fried on the spot –
spicy,
- sweet and tasteful (pedas nanis gurih)
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1452 In the middle of Manokwari
- town there still
are these private filling
- stations that serve mainly motorbikes
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1453 Motorbike owners who
need less:
- One of the many selling points of fuel
- in plastic bottles
along a city street
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In front of their home grandma
- and grandchild are listening to
the Sunday
- mass transmitted by loudspeaker
- to the outside
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Peaceful life in a suburban
- quarter of Manokwari City. Here
- children can be still children
- and even can play on the street
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Nowadays in all of Papua are only
- very few tribes that live
the way their
- ancestral did. The Hawaii Bakery in
- Manokwari City
shows statues of two clans
- people in their traditional outfit. Liliana
- seems to be comfortable in their midst
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1457 The lovely “Elim-Koawi Church” in
- Manokwari
with the monument of the first
- missionaries, who landed on the offshore
- Island of Mansinam (see
#1463) on
- February 5th, 1855. This event is celebrated
- each year across the
region …..
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1458 ….. the roofed memorial of the
- first German
missionaries C.W. Ottow
- and G.G. Geissler, with wooden pillars
- painted with Papuan motifs and graves …..
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1459 ….. and the mural
painting of the
- sailing boat in which the missionaries
- arrived, as
well as their phrase "In the
- name of our God we are stepping on
- this
land" and the Bible with the
- reference to "Ephesians 5:8
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The lovely monument in Papuan
- style is located ¾ miles [1.2km]
southwest
- of the port along Pasir Putih road behind of
- the “Elim
Church” and is dedicated to the
- first missionaries Ottow and
Geissler
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Sunday service at the Ebenhaezer
- Church in Fanindi, Manokwari:
The many
- parked motorbikes in front of the “Evangelical
- Christian
Church of Irian Jaya” are testimony
- of the religious devoutness of
the people
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A fine carved and brightly
- painted canoe in Papuan stile
adorns
- the sign of Manokwari’s “Evangelical
- Christian Church of Irian Jaya”
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1463 The 97 ft. [29½m] high Christ statue
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rises above the treetops of Mansinam
- Island marks the place where
the first
- missionaries Ottow and Geissler landed on
- 5.2.1855 in the
West Papua Province …..
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1464 …. close-up of the Christ statue.
- It has
been built to commemorate the
- history of Christianity in the West
Papua
- and Papua Provinces (former Irian Jaya)
- and resembles the
Christ statue of Rio de
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1465 ….. the lush green
western
- side of Mansinam Island. Around
- 800 people live on the
island. It is
- located about 3¾ miles [6km] southwest
- from the center
of Manokwari and can be
- reached by speed boat in 10-15 minutes
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1466 The afternoon mood bathes the
- stilt house
settlement east of Hotel
- Mansinam in a lovely light, 3¾ miles
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southwest of Manokwari City),
- near the Mansinam Island jetty
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1467 The lovely relief at the Mansinam
- Hotel
shows a couple of the Papuan “Dani”
- tribe in their natural
environment, although
- they are located actually in the Baliem
- Valley
in the highlands of Papua
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1468 Traditional Papuan
tribal art adorns on
- both sides the portal of the police
headquarters
- (Polda) of West Papua in Maripi, 12 mi.[20km]
- southwest of Manokwari City: Topic: Warriors
- in war paint rowing a
traditional canoe
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1469 View from the Aston Hotel in
- Manokwari
towards the South. On the right
- hand side lies the Arfak Mountain
ridge
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1470 The lovely setting in lush green and
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three crosses are the particularities of
- this GBI Church Center (Gereja
Bethel
- Indonesia) in Manokwari-Salju
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1471 A remembrance picture
on our
- way to the “Gunung Meja National Park”
- (Table Mountain Park)
east
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Not a soul: East of Manokwari City
- we are surprised by a long
deserted sandy
- beach at the Pacific Ocean
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A Papuan boy with typical frizzy hair
- and broad nose smiles
into our camera
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The beach at Pasir Putih – 6 miles
- [10km] east of Manokwari
City – is a popular
- place to chill out with family and friends
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1475 On our way on the “Trans Papua
- Highway”
towards Ransiki and Anggi
- Lakes: A heavily forested ridge of
- the Arfak Mountains reflects in a
- calm jungle river …..
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1476 ….. on which shore carpets
- of lilac water flowers
are growing,
- presumably “creeping foxgloves”
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coming from the
- Arfak Mountains is rushing through
- tropical
vegetation down into the valley.
- A woman takes advantage of the
- clear
river water to do her laundry
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Mist covers the upper slopes of the
- tropical Arfak Mountain
range in the
- Manokwari regency. It is a popular hiking,
- trekking and
bird watching destination
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The dry pink flower is growing
- straight as a pole skywards. It
feels
- like a strawflower and belongs to the
- genus of knapweeds (Centaurea)
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The “Trans Papua Highway”, which
- between Manokwari and Ransiki is completed
- (and a bit further southwards), is snaking along
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coast through beautiful tropical forest
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can reach: View from the road
- on our way to Ransiki over the
- Cenderawasih Bay
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- of Wedoni –
30 miles [50km] north
- of Ransiki – embedded into
- tropical vegetation
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1483 Natural beauty: A
blooming
- flower carpet of “creeping foxgloves”
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gangetica) in its exuberant
- growth along the coast to Ransiki
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the wide sandy river bed – near
- Oransbari, 20 miles [30km] before
Ransiki
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- motorbikes. One
of them takes the
- opportunity to take a refreshing bath
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1486 A mountain torrent
shrouded in mist
- from the Arfak Mountais rushes through lush
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- On the “Trans Papua Highway” Manokwari-Sorong. The huge project
that is currently under construction will lead in a few years in
- 2'690 miles [4'330km] from Sorong to Jayapura and Merauke at the
Papua New Guinea border. Either we were obviously too early
- in the
region, or the task is delayed, although the plans say that the road
net will be connected by the end of 2019.
- However connected doesn't
mean here that it can already been used
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1487 We tackle our failed “Trans Papua
- Highway”
project Sorong-Manokwari in
- reverse direction: From Manokwari
- towards west it starts with an excellent
- new tarmac road .....
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1488 ….. along the road we cross
- many bridges
over rivers which are
- meandering through the tropical
- vegetation
towards the valley …..
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come in sight,
- some are already inhabited, some not yet
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1490 An especially lovely cloud picture in
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rain forest that keeps our spirits high
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1491 A special highlight: Our Land-
- Cruiser enters
a jungle region where the
- overgrowth produces bizarre formations
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1492 Eventually the
Pacific reappears
- briefly: Picture from Gunung Doa near
- Mubrani – 80 mi.[130km] west of Manokwari
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1493 The view into the depth of the
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rainforest from 2'115 ft. [645m]
- altitude, 27 miles [43km] short of
the
- village of Kebar, is impressive …..
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interrupts the endless green …..
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dominating the rainforest
- in all shades. The background at the right
- hand side shows where the new “Trans
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Sorong-Manokwari: Because rain starts reaching the Kebir Valley,
everything gets
- shrouded in fog and because the road deteriorates
visibly, we make a U-turn and drive back to Manokwari. Out of the
total 370 miles [600km]
- long stretch through the Bird's Head
Peninsula we managed to drive 155 miles [250km] on the Sorong side
and now 90 miles [150km] from
- Manokwari. The first westerly half of
the missing 125 miles [200km] in the middle is a very bad muddy
construction site that is only passable by
- 4x4 after some days of a
dry spell; the eastern half through the Kebir Valley until our
turning point however is said to be for any kind of weather
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1496 Fog is raising from the plain
- engulfing the
first tree
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1497 Emil relaxes with a well-deserved
- Bintang Beer after a 2 mi. [3km] long,
steep
- and stony ascent in 4-wheel
drive. There is
- a heavenly peace. Only melodious twittering
- of birds
interrupts the silence
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1498 Here is our turning
point of the
- “Trans Papua Highway” Manokwari-Sorong.
- The last
turning point was on the Petik
- Bintang Pass when we tried to drive
from
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Highway” to Manokwari:
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1499 The roofs of the new settlements
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“Trans Papua Highway” are covered
- with jazzy blue corrugated
iron. A fashion
- trend or the only color available? Obviously
- settlers are lured into the new accessible areas
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line with the trend: Its blue is matching
- perfectly the iron roofs
of another new
- settlement along the “Trans Papua Highway”
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Papua Highway”
- in the eastern Bird's Head Peninsula –
- today's West
Papua Province – which
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1502 5/2/2018: It is 3am when the brightly
- illuminated “KM Ciremai” that will bring us
- via Sorong and Bau-Bau
to Makassar in
- Sulawesi finally arrives at the port of
- Manokwari
with 6 hours delay
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- Hence
the ramp cannot be lowered. We
- are rushed to drive our LandCruiser
into
- a container that will be lifted by the ship's
- own crane to the
deck. Emil is removing
- our spare tires from the roof …..
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1504 ….. it is done! Our
LandCruiser
- is caged in its 30th box and ready to be
- lifted onto the
deck of “KM Ciremai”
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Papua to Makassar in Sulawesi we
- call after 12½h and 235 miles
[378km] at
- the port of Sorong. It is our first stopover
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1506 A wooden boat in antique building
- style in
the calm waters around Sorong. It
- carries tourists on board that are
sailing to
- the diving islands of Rajat Ampat
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1507 View from the ship to
the 53 ft.[16m]
- tall Christ statue made of copper, 44 miles
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west of Sorong, which blesses the
- arrivals at the entrance to the
land of Papua
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- Kapal Laut” of
Sorong at our first
- stopover with “KM Ciremai” from
- Manokwari to
Makassar .....
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baggage towards the
- gangway. All hope to be able to
- snatch a good
sleeping spot
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sun is setting
- in a flaming red, when our ferry leaves
- Sorong and
sets out to its next destination
- Bau-Bau in Southeast Sulawesi –
- 36
hours = 725 miles [1'168km] away
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1511 Mother and child are
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air
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- chatting,
sleeping, walking up and down,
- watching fellow passengers or simply
- gazing out to the calm sea. Because there
- is always coverage on the
vessel, the cell
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mother’s
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1514 The dormitories with the soft
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the most desired places on
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served
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1515 At prayer time shoes pile up
- in front of the
prayer room for
- Muslims on “KM Ciremai”
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that is
- traveling with us in the somehow
- dilapidated container on
the right
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- order:
Light beams of the rising sun reflect
- in the mirror like waters near
the city of
- Bau-Bau on the island of Buton in
- Southeast Sulawesi
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1518 The terminal Murhum of Bau-Bau
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island in Southeast Sulawesi shows
- city character. We are on our way
back to
- “civilization”. The pretty landing points of
- the small
islands belong to the past
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1519 View from deck of our
“KM Ciremai”:
- Morning mist sails over the roofs of
- Bau-Bau in the
early morning hours. On
- the right hand side behind the containers
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the “Sulaiman Al Munawarah Mosque”
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1520 Bau-Bau grants us a glimpse to the
- impressive “Sisi Lain Islamic Center” when
- our ferry leaves Buton
island along its coast
- for Makassar in South Sulawesi
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1521 “Hopefully the container with its
- broken
floor makes a safe landing!” This is
- our greatest concern when on
May 4, 2018,
- 9pm, it's getting lowered from deck of
- “KM Ciremai” in
Makassar/South Sulawesi
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1522 Watched by the agent
of the
- Pelni Shipping Line and bystanders, Emil
- is unlashing our LandCruiser – a very
- familiar job by now. We are definitively
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in the “civilization”
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More websites from the
"Borneo-Sulawesi-Moluccas-Papua" trip:
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Part 1: Pictures from Sarawak-Kalimantan-North Sulawesi Part 1 – Miri/Malaysia
via
Kuching and Balikpapan to
North Sulawesi from Aug. to Oct. 2017
- Part 2: Pictures
from North Sulawesi Part 2
– Tomohon and surroundings, Tangkoko NP
in October 2017
- Part 3: Pictures
from the North Moluccas Part 1 – Ternate and Tidore in
November/December 2017
- Part 4: Pictures
from the North Moluccas Part 2 – Halmahera in November/December
2017
- Part 5: Pictures
from West Papua Part 1 (Irian Jaya) – Sorong and westerly ‘Trans Papua Road’
in December 2017-February 2018
- Part 6: Pictures from
the Moluccas Part 1 (Central) – Seram in February 2018
- Part 7: Pictures from
the Moluccas Part 2 (Central) – Ambon in February/March 2018
- Part 8: Pictures from
Papua Part 1 – Yapen in March 2018
- Part 9: Pictures from
Papua Part 2 – Biak in April 2018
- Part 11: Pictures from South Sulawesi-Kalimantan-Sarawak
Part 2 –
South Sulawesi via Kalimantan to Kuching and Miri/Malaysia from May to
July 2018
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- More websites from Indonesia and
Timor-Leste:
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Brunei:
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