People often think the Karang Rejo integrated health post (puskesmas) on Jalan Yos Sudarso in Tarakan, North Kalimantan, is a hospital. The three-storey building stands higher than the surrounding houses. A row of windows of in-patient care rooms can be seen from the outside. Arriving patients take a number and are directed to the related polyclinic, where they wait to be called. "It's like the system at a bank," health worker Junaidi told Tempo.

Elephant Doctors

Nanda Feriana stood up and lifted the bowl to eye level. Stepping back and forth, she murmured the counts of her steps. That afternoon she was demonstrating the ranup lapuan dance on the porch of her house in Lhokseumawe, Aceh.

Green Wall in a Barren School

To Ligaya Tumbelaka, 54, Sumatran tigers are rare species of charismatic carnivore that should be protected. So, when in 1992 she was offered the job to become the only studbook keeper of this species in Indonesia, the Tangkuney, North Sulawesi-born Ligaya did not hesitate to take it. At that time, she had just completed specializing in the subject of primates at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in the United States.

A group of women gathered in the mosque, chanting from the Holy Qur'an. Their crystal-clear voices mingled with the morning breeze blowing from Tomini Bay in Gorontalo. The combination of natural tranquility and devout prayer recitation wiped out the fatigue of the visitors who had just arrived in the tourist village of Bongo. Leafy mahogany trees lined 200 meters of road approaching the village entrance. Coconut and candlenut trees grew nearby.