Jakarta Pictures

Arriving at the airport in Jakarta we were met by Faye and Clare Brenneman. This is Faye talking to Clare Ann.

This is really what Jakarta looked like from the freeway on the way in our first day in Indonesia. Trash is burned and vehicles spew. With the constant heat and humidity it makes quite a brew.

Ibu Wati welcomes visitors to the MCC offices and guesthouse on Jalan Tawes in east central Jakarta.

Inside the guest living area of the MCC guesthouse/office in Jakarta. The left, or first picture looks toward the offices, the right picture towards the kitchen and manager's living quarters.

MCC's national office staff. From left: Program Director/Country Representative Clare Ann, Assistant Program Director Pak Abang, and Bookkeeper, etc. Pak Lilik.

Pak Hermintono was the rest of the national staff until the end of 1999 when he left after seven years of service. He is now Asst. Pastor of Tayu GITJ Church. He and his wife Johanna are pictured with the Sr. Pastor of the church.

March 16, 2000 was Idul Adha as celebrated by most Muslims in Jakarta. It commemorates the almost sacrifice of Isaak, or Ishmael in the Muslim scriptures. People gather for prayer, blocking many streets so they can sit in rows facing Mecca since the mosques could never hold everyone. After the prayers donated goats and cows are slaughtered at the mosques and the meat distributed to the poor. The corrals of goats and cows had appeared everywhere the two weeks before.