Indie is Rolling

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

I looked forward to this because I have much free time to go shopping as planned for this second morning of tourism. So after breakfast, Cambodians helped me with this tour. First I visited to Wat Lanka, one of historic monasteries in Phnom Penh, where is not far from the Royal Palace and Independence Monument. Wat Lanka is also an accommodation for monks.





Then Vuth took me to a place where I did not want to enter; that is the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum with horrible sights. That building is the place where Pol Pot killed thousands of people. I thought it’s just a place for displaying antiques; on the contrary, Pol Pot took photos of victims before killing. Some people such as photographers and painters survived from Pol Pot’s killing. As a result, those photos and paintings relate directly to the regime’s events, killing places and methods. May such a genocide tragedy not happen again at all! Similarly, if documents were collected, Indonesia would have such a museum like DOM in Aceh, East Timor and other conflict areas. There are many histories written by our world’s blood.
Tuol Sleng 01 /
Tuol Sleng 02 /
Tuol Sleng 03

Now I write the history with drawings and comics; and I hope to get success. To relieve my horror with Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, I went for change to Phsar Tuol Tum Poung (Russian Market) where people buy things for keeping as souvenirs.

And at night it is animation film show at Sovanna Phum day, fortunately the rain stopped at 7:30pm so they could show the first film - I was proud.



'Bus Kota' (Lulu Ratna)


That is the truth of Indonesia, which differs from advertising.




The second film is an animated cartoon “Stop Human Cloning” that is an achievement of Wahyu Adiya (Hellomotion), a video from the band 'Padi', ''Gathot Kaca" and children films at Kasatmata Studio which make people laugh and praise.


After the show, there were a lot of discussions and questions from audiences about scenes of the animated cartoon film that Indonesia can produce by itself and make them satisfied and show their opinions; we will study jointly.