Earlier this year, the Little Mail Carrier’s cousin was invited to attend some Postcrossing meetings in Indonesia. He begged us to go, so we packed him on a comfy envelope and off he went, towards the Java sea! Yanita (aka YanitaDC) kindly hosted the little man and showed him around her home country. Here’s his report of the trip:
Halo, Apa Kabar?
I just visited Indonesia, the biggest archipelago country in the Equator. I came here to attend the Postcrossing meetup In Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia… and stayed a bit longer with my host Yanita, to see the sights.
But first things first! The meetup was held in early March in Jakarta, at the Kantor Filateli Jakarta (Jakarta Philatelic Office), where a postcard exhibition of member’s collections was also taking place.
People came from all over Indonesia for this meeting, so I got to meet lots of new friends… I felt like a movie star having a fans meeting! They thought of everything and even made special postcards for everyone to sign!
That was really exciting! Can you believe how many people were there? There was even a news report made about the Indonesian Postcrossing community at this meetup, which was later played on the bigger post offices of Indonesia for a month! Have a look:
In a word… awesome! :D
Next on my tour of Indonesia, I visited Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (which means 'Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park’). It was brilliant! I could see as much of Indonesia as I wanted… all in one place!
Aaaah, so many things to see… Indonesia is huge! After so much sightseeing, I was feeling a bit hungry, so Yanita gave me some kerak telor. It’s a sort of spicy omelet with sticky rice inside, topped with fried shredded coconut, fried shallots and dried shrimp. That was amazing and really hit the spot!
While I was in Jakarta, another meetup was being planned, this time in Yogyakarta, about 500km west from Indonesia’s capital. The organizing committee kindly invited me to join them, so I eagerly hopped on my envelope and took the plane over!
Stay tuned for my next update – there’s a lot more I want to show you from this lovely country scattered in the sea! :)
47 comments so far
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing your country with us.
so cool news clip about postcrossing. I hope everyone at the meetup enjoyed the meetup :)
Great to see big simles in all faces!
i missed this meet up :-(
Great!
A great meet up, so many happy people....
hope someday i can join a meet up as great as jakarta meet up.. :-)
awwieee i missed this meet up :'(
Just this week I received one of the postcards of this meeting as an official and I put t on the Facebook page of Dutch postcrossers because I was very pleased with this card. Thank you again an great to see the faces of the ones that signed the postcard.
Such an interesting story!Hope one day I will visit he meeting too:)
Great meet-up in Jakarta! It is interesting to see the Youtube video! Terima kasih! :D
I'm one of those lucky one who received one of the meet up cards.
Thank you,Indonesian Postcrossers. :)
Nice if only we have something like this in the Philippines. :'(
What a wonderful meeting and a lovely story. Oh to have been lucky enough to receive one of these postcards - ah well, maybe next time.
Looks like fun!
Wow, the video clip is excellent! Well done!
What a great meet up you had :)
Thanks for sharing this meetup with us. Hopefully more people in Indonesia will join and we will receive more beautiful postcards from there!
Looks like you all had a really wonderful meeting - A special thanks to Jennifer for sending me one of those lovely postcards.
Wonderful photos! :)
Just watched the entire video. Well done !!! Beautiful smiles.
So proud with all friends in Indonesian Postcrossing Community. :)
Wow! Great! I will go there in a few weeks..
aha i was there..
yeah!! I was one of the lucky one who may received this card!
want to taste that omelet
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful impressions of the postcrossing meeting with us. The movie is great.
Dear everyone thank you so much for the comment, it's nice to spread these happiness to postcrosser all over the world. Just for your information, for the video with English subtitle u can go to this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnXWOtvqRrU and click the caption for it. Happy Postcrossing \(^_^)/
Thanx for sharing!!! :)
Lovely to see so much joy for postcrossing!!
Terima kasih for sharing the 'little' trip! Nice event of a meet up, well done.
What fun! I love the photos of the trip and meetup. Thank you for sharing.
Jakarta and Jogjakarta are two cities in Java, to see the whole Indonesia you have to visit Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya. Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park well enough to represent all regions.
Thanks for sharing the fun meetup.
Great Meet-up!
I remember hosting my first travelling toy years ago.
wow so happening meetup, congrats:)
what a great meetup with so many participants! :)
Very interesting! Thank you for this post))
This was a great post! Loved the video. Hopefully I'll receive a postcard from Indonesia soon! :)
Dear German users,
if GEMA prevents you to see the video (sorry Yanita, your link in the message did not work for me either) - this one (but also from you) did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIyjZuWyonI
Thank you so much for sharing.
Hopefully I will receive such a nice card...
Waaaa.....when the meet up was held, I just joined the postcrossing community for a few days. So I just knew the meet up from the article on Kompas Newspapers. I really hope there will be another meet up in Jakarta someday.
Looking forward to the next report!
Thanks for the tour,Meiadeleite. Thanks too to YanitaDC for the link and instructions for english captions on the Utube video. Great video. Happy Postcrossing!
Teamug : i've heard if those link doesn't work in Germany, i'm so sorry for that.
JeeryC1023 : Here us the link for the next report http://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2014/07/09/yogyakarta-postcrossing-meetup
Thank you :)
Looking forward to the next meet up :p
wow, what a great adventure, even to visit jakarta and to join a meeting in the same time!!!!!?!?!
nice thanks for shareing this.
Stamps are super beautiful !!!!
**CARS!!!***
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