Indonesia: Community, Culture, & Conservation
Mekong: The Tibetan Plateau to the Heart of Southeast Asia, Indonesia: Community, Culture, & Conservation
The Group Flight Has Landed!
Sarah O'Brien, Dragons Admin
We just heard from the student leaders this afternoon whom have reported that the group flight had landed safely. By now, many students are making their way through customs and on their way to their home airports. We wish them the safest of travels......Read More
The group is en route to their next destinations!
Hannah, Instructor
After a reflective and relaxing transference, this semester has come to a close. It feels like just yesterday we were gathering in the Jakarta Airport Terminal 3 for the first of many group circles and emotional/physical needs check-ins. This......Read More
Thursday, December 5, Jakarta
Chris, Participant
Yak of the Week
Thursday, December 5, Jakarta “Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only......Read More
The Tides of Sampela
Hannah Sachs, Instructor
Yak of the Week
It has been one week since we left our homestay in Sampela, the remote village suspended on dried coral reef and stilts over the ocean off the coast of the Wakatobi island chain. Like our students, this was my first time visiting this community.......Read More
Transference
Colin (ITeam), Instructor
We started out in Dieng, in the chilly, misty, geologically active highlands. Amid steam vents, ancient temples, and terraced potato fields, we got oriented to each other and to Indonesia. Now, ten flights, a dozen islands, 100 mangoes, 750 es......Read More
Bira Bound
The Gang, Instructor
After a makeshift Thanksgiving dinner at the hotel and some well-deserved gelato, the group is ready for transference!...Read More
Team on the move
Jessica Armstrong, Dragons Admin
As the first rains of the wet season fell this morning on Sampela, breaking a drought that has caused a lot of stress and hardship, our team bid heartfelt farewells to their homestay families and expressed gratitude to the community for hosting......Read More
Reflections from our Indonesia coordinator
Jessica Armstrong, Dragons Admin
Hi everyone, During the group’s time in Sampela the team had an additional Dragons staffer with them, Lutfi, who is our beloved Indonesia Program Coordinator and ex-Dragons homestay sister. Lutfi grew up in Jogya and has been helping us out......Read More
Return International Group Travel Information!
Sarah O'Brien, Dragons Admin
Dear Indonesia Students & Families, Indonesia fall program students will soon be boarding their planes to return home and share their tales of adventure with each of you. We are sure you are anxiously awaiting their arrival! Below is a reminder......Read More
Sampela Poetry
Shane, Savanna, Eeshani, and Harrison, Participant
Yak of the Week
The group has had an amazing time in Sampela and after reflecting on such a wonderful cultural and personal experience, we are getting ready to say goodbye to a place so unlike our American home. A place where we learned to spearfish, spent a lot of......Read More
Pictures with homestay families #1
jessica, Dragons Admin
Hi everyone, The team just sent me some shots from Sampela of the students meeting their host families. Enjoy! Jessica....Read More
A Celebration and an Arrival
I-Team, Instructor
We wanna share another quick update while the group has WiFi and electricity here in Wangi Wangi, the northernmost island in the Wakatobi chain. We arrived this evening after a smooth flights from Makassar to Kendari, and then Kendari to Wangi......Read More
Transit photos & Communication expectations
ITeam, Participant
Hi everyone, We wrapped up a successful X-phase in a Bali with a visit to 65 Park and a discussion about land conservation movements and the history of the mass killings in 1965. The community of 65 Park has been working on building a public......Read More