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The way of the future

Seeing the Navya Autonom Shuttle Evo with my own eyes, operating in a shopping mall park area, here in Indonesia, just makes me think & realize how far we have come in the future.

The Future is here, now. Yesterday just memories.

Serpong, Indonesia, April 13, 2022 – Navya autonomous minibus at a trial in an open area shopping mall, Tangerang, Indonesia.

As an Indonesian, with a lot going on here in this modern transition developing country, seeing this autonomous bus operate, although still in the trial phase, just makes me have to say “Wow”.

Hopefully, it will soon be implemented widely among various cities in Indonesia.

Serpong, Indonesia, April 13, 2022 – Navya autonomous minibus at a trial in an open area shopping mall, Tangerang, Indonesia.
Serpong, Indonesia, April 13, 2022 – Navya autonomous minibus at a trial in an open area shopping mall, Tangerang, Indonesia.
Serpong, Indonesia, April 13, 2022 – Navya autonomous minibus at a trial in an open area shopping mall, Tangerang, Indonesia.
Serpong, Indonesia, April 13, 2022 – Navya autonomous minibus at a trial in an open area shopping mall, Tangerang, Indonesia.
Serpong, Indonesia, April 13, 2022 – Navya autonomous minibus at a trial in an open area shopping mall, Tangerang, Indonesia.
Serpong, Indonesia, April 13, 2022 – Navya autonomous minibus at a trial in an open area shopping mall, Tangerang, Indonesia.

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April 21, 2022December 18, 2023 by Jadiguna Categories: Daily Life, digital content, Indonesia, Photojournalism Leave a comment

While the COVID-19 pandemic is not over the hills yet, life, as we know it, must go on. We in JADIGUNA Images understand deeply the impact of the pandemic, especially to your business in this unique hard era of ours.

In the spirit of revival and collaboration, we are launching a special program, best suited for small-medium businesses, especially the homemade food and beverages industry, using our knowledge and expertise in digital content and social media development.

Hopefully, with our economic and budget-friendly packages, we can help your brand image grow and communicate better to your market.

Please feel free to contact us and discuss further how our tailored Pandemic Revival Promo packages can help your needs. Cheer up, we can do it together.

November 3, 2021December 18, 2023 by Jadiguna Categories: Art & culture, business, commercial service, digital content, food photography, marketing, Photo Project, Photojournalism, product photography Leave a comment

Dare to Love, bring’s Hope, and have Faith

Hope can sometimes be difficult things to find, especially when you are alone and it feels like no one cares. At the desolation of our hearts, despair can make us lose hope in everything good that can happen in our day.

Love on the contrary can lift your heart toward others, and move you to take action for the other person’s happiness. Make you have faith in others.

Love, Hope, and Faith. A message that the Church emphasizes again and again, in this sometimes ridiculous world of ours.

In this desolate time of the COVID-19 pandemic, those three messages became relevant messages to rely on. To be brave enough to choose love toward the fear that surrounded you, to have hope of a better tomorrow, instead of just living the routine, and to realize that faith in your heart, guides your every step ahead.

When I was invited to document the COVID-19 Vaccination initiative events, held by the Gonzaga High School alumni with the school administrator, the three messages of Love, Hope, and Faith undoubtedly beamed in every action of the volunteer involved.

To be brave and choose love, bring hope toward others, and live in faith.

It is never an easy choice. To care, choose compassion, believe in your competence, communicate your ideas and collaborate, have courage, and have a commitment for the greater good.

For me, that is why I need faith, more than ever in these difficult time of ours, guiding my step to serve others, just like the Lord has taught me. Finding God in all of creation.

“Ad maoirem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem — for the greater glory of the God and the salvation of humanity” – Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

May 15, 2021December 18, 2023 by Jadiguna Categories: Daily Life, faith, Photojournalism, Religion Leave a comment

People on a bridge

It’s been more than a year since the first COVID-19 viruses have been confirmed. Although the Vaccine has been developed, and better treatment for the patient has been given, there is still no halt to the pandemic threat for the ordinary daily routine life of the people.

Nevertheless, life must go on, the work still needs to be done and we have entered a new normal routine. A life where sometimes, we must exclude ourselves sour self from the crowd, for the matter of protection of our loved one.

The need to wear the mask is mandatory in every corner of the busy city. Although greeting each other is an instinctual nature for us, we learn to take precautions in welcoming others, even friends to our close circle.

Yes, COVID-19 has changed the way we are living in this new age. We still don’t have a clue whether we can go back to our old normal days, or we are living a new future where human have to take a high sanitation precaution for every small detail in their ordinary routine life, just to be safe from the threat of the unseen virus.

The new future, where opening our mask and taking a little breath in a crowd has potentially become dangerously hazardous to our health.

Stay safe, stay healthy, is the only message that we can rely upon these days. Stay strong.

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 by Jadiguna Categories: Daily Life, Jakarta, Photojournalism Leave a comment

Art of Capturing Patterns – between the boundaries of moment’s – a photography reflection

“A pattern is the repeated or regular way in which something happens or is done.”

We love to see pattern.

Maybe, thru the pattern, we find a comforting warm feeling in these chaotic moments of the constantly changing time of ours.

There is a pattern everywhere you look, even in the bliss of a split second.

And photography is the perfect medium to capture and presenting that patterns. Thru my own experience in this field, I tend to find irregularity beyond the patterns that came to my attention. Some of my mentors in photography even emphasize the importance of the pattern in creating outstanding photography works.

In short, pattern photography is the concept of integrating a repetition of elements into your photographs. Our daily lives are filled with repetitive patterns. Whether with shapes, colors, or textures, perfect examples of repetition exist all around us.

April 7, 2021 by Jadiguna Categories: Art & culture, Daily Life, environment, Indonesia, Photo Project, Photojournalism Leave a comment

COVID-19 Vaccine for Seniors

The whole of 2020 has been a very strange year for most of us. The world was on its toe facing the threat of COVID-19 viruses.

Many lives have been lost, the fatality number is staggering. Family torn apart, either directly became the casualty of the virus or get the impact of the pandemic that bring the economy to near recession.

So it is logical for leaders of the world to push the innovation race for finding the vaccine for this mysterious virus.

It is more than a year now since the first report of the COVID-19 formally announced to the world, and since then the effort for producing the vaccine is finally bring its results.

In these last couple of months, Indonesia has become one of the first countries that aggressively distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to its citizen. After the health workers as one of the highest priorities to get the vaccine, the distribution process has spread to the Indonesian elderly citizen.

Not all Indonesian citizens respond positively to the COVID-19 vaccine distribution policy, considering the instant process of the newly developed production procedure. Even in the policy decision-making circle, the debate is still a hard bargain. It is understandable that humans are always worrying about something that new after all.

Nevertheless, many have welcome the COVID-19 distribution and appreciate the government’s effort to make it free for the people of Indonesia.

These glimpses of photo series serve as a symbolic gesture of appreciation for the struggle and sacrifice of many facing this terrible virus of COVID-19, that finally seen a little light of hope.

Hope, maybe is all we got left after all the journey we have taken, and to keep the hope alive, we must endure and be brave for a better tomorrow.

March 9, 2021 by Jadiguna Categories: Photojournalism Leave a comment

Tracking the ancient Spices trail of Java

Spices trade has changed the civilization in the Indonesia Archipelago.

History has shown, how Spain, Portuguese, Dutch, and later British have fought, conquer and colonize the people of Indonesia or also known as Nusantara found by the mysterious Majapahit kingdom, to dominate the spices trade route, harvest from these fertile lands.

The Chinese, Arabic, and African spices trader that has been trading in these islands before the Europeans also have left its heritage to the civilization thru cultural changing and particularly religious teachings. The spices trading route gave a direct impact on Islam teaching in Indonesia, which today has become one of the biggest Muslim population nations in the world.

Spread across the archipelago, one of the distinguished ancient heritage of the spices trading route can be found in Java island, which has been known for centuries as the main trading port and administration center of this archipelago.

To preserve the relict and heritage of these ancient trading routes, also giving the future generation access to study how the history of the spices trading in Indonesia gave an impact on its people, the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia has been actively promoting the initiative to make the Indonesia Spices trading route formally recognized as one of the World Heritage sites.

I was invited to join as part of a team conducting a rapid assessment in Cirebon, West Java, and Gresik, East Java to support this initiative. Our team consists of Archeology scholars and photographers, documenting sites scattered along Java Island.