A portion of the money raised for the Bantul Earthquake relief effort went into buying a pretty powerful FM transmitter that is now used by three villages as a means of independent media transmission. 

Here is an update on the shape my MFA work in Digital Art and New Media at UC Santa Cruz.....

http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/Gamelan%20Plesetan

Here are some photos of bak to skool Kare packages we made up for the Kindergardeners (Taman Anak Anak) from Rt. 13 Geneng ... included were sketch books, writing books, pencils, erasers, crayons, sharpeners, and a pencil case....

hello from SantaCruz!

new photos posted! Please stay tuned for more photos i took during my stay in June 2006. They all should be up and running by the summer 2007, but for now, they trickle in... Thanks for your patience! Meanwhile here is a photo from one of the awesome community events I attended in a severely damaged village:a crack in a building by the sea: made, joemama and nenek in Sewon...:and a small photo (more to come later) of a wicked installation by a performance artist/art teacher based in Yogya made from ruins and rubble from the earthquake..

*** the following is a report from a member of an Austrailian Activist Collective (sorry, I do'n't know their name.. out of Sydney, also doing work with Taring Padi)
Hello all,
So I arrived on Sunday evening, and had a quick jalan2 with Deni

the following is a slightly edited version of an email i received from Zemi on June 12, 2006 "I would like to write some kind of an update but I am not sure where to begin. The current situation is Yogya is relatively clear from all reports from friends: very tenuous.