DISCLAIMER: This short note is pratically my long version of the comments I left in this video, which were discussing about “Sasi” or known as “Eha”. Why now? Because today I have the time. Back then, I had no intention to respond to brainless mob of non Indigenous on the topic, nor the willingness to…
Author: Rallu
Hi, I’m Rallu, an Angry Indigenous who belongs to the Watunapatto tribe that occupies tiny island in the Southwest of Pacific Ocean, at the border between Indonesia (my nationality) and the Philippines. Welcome.
Guardians of the Deep: The Overlooked Struggle of Ocean Defenders
Happy World Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 The ocean has always been a part of who we are. As an Indigenous person from one of Indonesia’s many small islands, I grew up with the sound of waves as my lullaby, the salty breeze as my constant companion, and the knowledge that the sea gives and takes…
Hi all, I am back!
As some of you might remember, I shut down this web (www.rallu.xyz) two years ago. The platform that I started in 2004 ended in 2022. Eighteen years of documentation of different types of writing – from an op-ed published at news outlet, left-leaning analysis, travel notes, food-book-movie-music reviews, and many angry notes are gone from…