Japanese realism painting

It look realism painting and it look real bamboo.  This Painting media by water colour on paper with 40 cm height and 180 cm long.  I shoot this picture from Hanamasa Restaurant Point Square,Gian Mall, T.B. Simatupang Street.  Jakarta.

U.S. and Indonesian Paratroopers Strengthen Cooperation

June 20, 2013

This year’s Garuda Shield exercise represents the largest and most complex training exercise ever conducted in the long-standing military relationship between the United States and Indonesia. 

Over the last two weeks, soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and the Indonesian Army’s Kostrad Division 1 have participated in the annual Garuda Shield exercise which is designed to build relationships between the two armies and create familiarity through working together. 

The event includes a wide array of interoperability-focused events ranging from combined staff operations and computer-based simulation to small unit tactics training and live-fire exercises. 

The culmination activity and centerpiece of the 2013 Garuda Shield Exercise were multiple airborne operations conducted with U.S. and Indonesia paratroopers descending together onto a drop zone in the vicinity of Kostrad Division 1 Headquarters. 

This year almost 500 U.S. soldiers made the journey to Indonesia to take part in this important exercise and continue to develop our military-to-military linkages. The 2014 Garuda Shield, which is planned to be conducted with Kostrad Division 2 in Malang, will continue to enhance familiarity and introduce new areas of collaboration for our two armies to explore.

Source : U.S. Embassy Jakarta.Indonesia

http://www. usembassy.gov

Art Culture

PADAUNG WOMAN, NORTH  THAILAND

Standards of beauty in society could be different with other community votes of beauty.
Beauty in a particular country is tall, slim, black hair, breasts not too big and runs like a heron. Whereas in other countries, people who are beautiful have a golden hair, brown skin, green eyes with a medium body high.
One ethnic in North Thailand has a standard of beauty if a girl has a long neck.

In Ethiopia, Society Surma ethnic would be beautiful if the girls have long lips up to their chests. They used accessories in to their lips made by clay plate.  These are so amazing culture that we must visit there.

THE WOMAN OF SURMA, ETHIOPIA

SURMA GIRL, ETHIOPIA

SURMA GIRL FROM ETHIOPIA

Source : Book of National Geographic 1991 

Ambassador Marciel Joins Opening of U.S.-Indonesia Military Exercise. 10 June 2013

U.S. Ambassador Scot Marciel joined Maj. Gen. Gary Hara, Deputy Commander for the Army National Guard, U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) and Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI) Maj. Gen. Daniel Ambat, Kostrad Division 1 Commander, for the opening of the Garuda Shield exercise (GS) in Cilodong, Indonesia on June 10.  Garuda Shield is an annual Army-to-Army interoperability exercise is focused on building stronger relationships, sharing techniques, tactics and procedures, and building operational familiarity.

This year's Garuda Shield is the 7^th iteration of the exercise and represents the largest and most complex bilateral event ever conducted between the United States and Indonesian Armies. The exercise consists of four parts including a combined tactical operations center and staff process, computer planning exercise, intensive field exercise portion, and a combined airborne operation with the U.S. Army’s 82^ndAirborne Division. This is the 7^th iteration of the Garuda Shield exercise which is scheduled to conclude on June 21 at Kostrad Division 1 Headquarters.   The Garuda Shield exercise is the centerpiece of a series of exercises that are building greater cooperation under the U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership. 

United States forces also participated Gema Bhakti combined Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief staff exercise at the International Peace and Security Center in Sentul, Indonesia from June 6-10.  The Gema Bhakti exercise brought together forces from U.S. Army Pacific Command, U.S. Navy and Air Force to work side-by-side personnel from the TNI to create response planning to assist Indonesia in responding more efficiently to a natural disaster.

Experts in various disaster relief fields discussed issues, emergency responders and support services, face during an emergency and provided insights which allowed roughly 100 participants from both militaries to brain storm ideas to support national and strategic level decision making processes.

As a further compliment to the Garuda Shield and Gema Bhakti exercises, Indonesia and the United States also conducted a Disaster Response Exercise & Exchange entitled Pacific Resilience.  Pacific Resilience, held from June 3-6 at the Indonesia Peace & Security Center in Sentul brought together USARPAC, TNI, Indonesian disaster response agencies, and U.S. agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). During the course of the exercise, over 150 participants gathered to focus on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.  The exercise was designed to simulate the response to an earthquake and tsunami impacting the area of Padang in western Sumatra.

Source :  U.S. Embassy Jakarta. Indonesia

Documentation  : U.S. Embassy. Jakarta. Indonesia.

Link :  U.S. Embassy. Jakarta.Indonesia