Soviet Woman, 30 April 1955: 'Visit to Indonesia' (V. Mikosha dan I. Sokolnikov)

=== [PDF page 1] === Numerous sea lanes connect the young republic with the rest of the world. Here is a view of the busy quayside in Djakarta, which is one of the big gest ports in the country. The liner Oceania, in from Naples, has just docked This young peasant woman of Java is in excellent spirits. She has just finished bringing in the rice harvest from her own land VISIT TO MIKOSHA and SOKOLNIKOV Sfalin Prize Laureates Photographs by the authors The lilac contours of Sumatra vanished in the distance, and soon the Sunda Straif too was left behind and our plane landed at Djakarta. A ll told we spent over fw o months in Indonesia making a docu mentary colour picture showing the life and w ork of the Indonesian people. W e sought to convey on film the enthusiasm w ith which the population of these islands, freeing themselves (rom colonial oppression, are building a new life. W e ph otographed peasants cultivating their own rice paddies, boys and girls af study in schools and colleges, ancient classical dances. In a rem ote village we film ed a young woman teacher surrounded by a crow d of lively youngsters. O pportunities for creative, peaceful labour and cultural de ve lo p ment are being opened to the women of Indonesia, w ho are full of fervent resolve to carry on the struggle for the com plete independence of their native land and to play a w o rth y part in its life. W e also film ed the welcome given af Djakarta airfield to an Indonesian women's delegation returning from the U.S.S.R. W omen of all sections of society and of different opinions had gathered In a picturesque location near Djokjakarta is the Prambanam, a group of temples dating from the tenth century. Our attention was drawn to the "sacred tree” near one of these temples. Note the laughing faces of stone framing the roots of the tree At the airfield in Djakarta as an Indonesian women's delegation returned home from the U.S.S.R. 35