COVER N.137 - INDONESIA.

Postmark: Malangselatan 02.02.2022
Posted on the 2nd February; received on the 8th July 2022
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There was a time when hearing about Indonesia would almost always spark in the minds of  the Portuguese  a feeling of discomfort, of mute despair, even though both our  countries stand almost opposite to each other on the circumference of the globe.

and what for...

Today East Timor free from the colonial grasp of both Portugal and Indonesia is slowly  making its way through the grand concert of nations and Indonesia and Portugal are strengthening the bonds of a relation that is 500 hundred years old and that has left its imprint in the form of some words in the Bahasa Indonesia language and also in Indonesian music as I learned the other day on watching a documentary on the Portuguese origins of the Kroncong a direct descendant of the Cavaquinho, just like the Hawayn Ukelele.

Conflicts can be solved. they always are because no conflict can last forever. Humanity, who is well aware of this simple fact (all it takes is opening any history book....) has failed immensely over the years.. and is still failing....

To err is human; persisting in the same error, is not; it is exactly the opposite, and yet, like donkeys, some keep on putting bombs ahead of words ...

 

What a great pleasure it was  to receive a cover from Indonesia! Thank you Irene, I truly appreciated it.

 Stamps, Lef to right:

3,000 Rupiah stamp part of a se-tenant three stamp set dedicated to the fauna of Indonesia, issued on 05NOV2019. The stamp is illustrated with a image of a Stiphodon annieae, a freshwater goby that is endemic to Halmahera, Indonesia, and many fish tanks around the globe, I presume :-).

Souvenir sheet with two 2,500 Rupiah stamps highlighting fauna and flora species endemic to Indonesia, issued on 30NOV2006, on the occasion of the Bandung 06 National Philatelic Exhibition.

The beautiful images on the stamps call on our attention to the Javan Leopard,  Panthera pardus melas, a species that is listed as endangered in the IUCN red list and the Gandaria (Boueha macrophylla) a species of mango endemic to Indonesia and Burma.

The Postmark indicates  Malang in the Island of Java,  as the place of expedition of this nice cover.