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Anything reflected on water, mirror or other reflecting surfaces brings forward something interesting, and becomes more gorgeous when you capture it through your camera. Semarang River (Kali Semarang) hides her own story on every spirit and esprit of life she sees along his side. She perceives the unusual phenomenon of people living aside. She assembles every slide. The picture of their kind-hearted humanity, unrestrained vivacity, life against difficulty, riverside hospitality; it is too much different from the context of sub-marginalization that becomes public paradigm of today’s social class inhabiting.
Since in former times, riverside has apparently become the centre of living. Water, as the heart, is one among the reasons of why life is prevailing. “Gang Lombok” Chinese Temple Poei Kim Liam, an 80 year-old man who had roved vagabonds from China in his younger times, greeted friendly every of his barongsai (Chinese lion dance) mask customer at his store, close to “Gang Lombok” (chili walkway) Chinese Temple. As one of the biggest temples in the complex of Semarang (the capital of Central Java) Chinatown, “Gang Lombok” Temple becomes the central of Chinese’s religious ceremonies.
This temple, namely Tay Kek Sie, was built in 1771 on a chili plantation; it is why today people call it as “Gang Lombok” Temple. Semarang River, which flows in the south of the complex, becomes also the place of their religious ritual and tradition. One of them is the construction of Admiral Zheng He is ship permanent replica in 2005, due to the 600th annual commemoration of his former expedition. The Chess House and House of Wanderer Pacing to the other side of the complex, across the river, there is a modest house with some rooms in a row in front of it to play chess in. The chess players were eagerly sitting in front of those blackand-white boards, with sixteen pieces on it.
This place is called as Persatuan Catur Damar (the ‘illuminating’ Chess Association), which is the development center of chess game in Semarang. About 200 meters northerly, there was a ‘riverside’ settlement. “Rumah Boro” (the House of Wanderers). This is what the townspeople call it. They rest in this house, a house with no partition but lockers to keep the roomers’ stuff. This is the house of laborers and wanderers, who fight for their luck in town. Today, about tens of rough laborers live in this house. Human Interest: Creativity and Activity In the thrust of nature, man often reaches a boundary where he should relinquish his creativity. One unblemished example is the skiff used to traverse the Semarang River.
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