Recent scenes from Indonesia

Indonesia, a sprawling country of contrasts is made up of 17,500 islands and populated by over 240 million people, and is home to the world's largest population of Muslims.

1. A Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus), also known as the Red-backed Sea-eagle, stands inside a cage at Pulau Kotok bird rehabilitation centre in the Thousand Islands, north of Jakarta, Indonesia on January 27, 2010. The mascot of Indonesia's capital, Brahminy Kites are protected eagles and have been under threat in the Thousand Islands as they were captured and sold illegally as status symbols. (REUTERS/Beawiharta)
2. A worker looks through incense sticks during a drying process ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year at an incense factory in Tangerang, Indonesia's Banten province February 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #
3. Thousands of motorists sit stuck in the morning gridlock after a group of protesters blocked one of Jakarta's main roads on February 22, 2010. The number of motor vehicles including motorcycles in greater Jakarta has almost tripled in the past eight years to 9.52 million. Meanwhile road space has grown less than one percent annually since 2004, according to the Indonesian Transport Society. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) #
4. A member of the traditional Baduy (or Badui) tribe carries wood from the river to sell at their village in the forest area of the Kendeng mountains on February 7, 2010 in Banten, Indonesia. The traditional community consists of around 5,000-8,000 people spread across a hilly area of just 50 square kilometers. Their religion, known as Agama Sunda Wiwitan, combines elements of Hinduism, Buddhism and traditional beliefs, including various taboos such as not eating food at night, touching money, accepting gold or silver or even cutting their hair. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) #
5. A teacher comforts a crying pupil at the temporary school in the Bantar Gebang landfill site, one of Jakarta's biggest dump sites, on January 26, 2010 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Children who live and work at the landfill site are schooled by day before going to help their parents scavenge and sell their finds after classes are over. Around 6,000 metric tons of garbage are dumped daily at the landfill site. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) #
6. Eleven-year-old Nung stands on the mountain of rubbish where she will collect plastic, at the Bantar Gebang landfill site, one of Jakarta's biggest dump sites, on January 27, 2010. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) #
7. Young Ratna studies a map she found amongst the rubbish, while her brother, Basir separates the plastic he has collected at the Bantar Gebang landfill site, on January 26, 2010 in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) #
8. Workers sleep on the deck of a wooden ship as they travel to Jakarta for work from the Thousand Island district of Indonesia on January 27, 2010. The Thousand Islands district consists of about 105 small islands with around 30,000 inhabitants. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #
9. Workers attend a production line at a shoe factory in Tangerang on January 27, 2010. The Indonesian trade minister said that the local shoe industry was ready to compete with China as the free trade agreement between Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China took full effect on January 1, 2010. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) #
10. An Indonesian police officer peeks through riot shields during an anti-government rally outside the presidential palace in Jakarta January 28, 2010. Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied on Thursday to mark the first 100 days of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second term. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #
11. A technician repairs a tractor inside the PT Aneka Tambang gold mine in Pongkor, West Java, Indonesia, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. (Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg) #
12. A man arrested for gambling is struck with a cane six times during a public caning at the compound of a mosque in Aceh Besar on January 29, 2010. The man was arrested for gambling while his three companions escaped. Aceh province has a special autonomy and it has defined itself as apart from the rest of Indonesia by implementing Shariah law and creating a religious police. (CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images) #
13. A laborer works on the top of an iron scaffolding next to a giant advertisement board in Jakarta on February 7, 2010. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) #
14. Sumbanese men carrying wooden spears ride their horses during a ritual war festival called Pasola in Lamboya, West Sumbawa February 6, 2010. During the annual festival, two groups of Sumbanese men ride their horses and fling wooden spears at each other. (REUTERS/Murdani Usman) #
15. A child looks from behind her umbrella after a dance ahead of a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration in Jakarta, February 12, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #
16. Three Indonesian students have their lips sewn together during a protest marking the 100th day since President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's swearing in for his second term, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. Student activists staged the protest demanding Yudhoyono to step down over his failure to lead the country to get out of the economic and political crisis. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah) #
17. A fisherman tries to get close to a migrant whale shark from his wooden boat near Bentar beach in Probolinggo of Indonesia's East Java province February 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas) #
18. A worker silkscreens T-shirts at the PT Caladi Lima Sembilan garment factory in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. (Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg) #
19. Tigers recently confiscated from the residence of an Indonesian businessman sit inside a cage at Animal Rescue Center run by Indonesian Forestry Ministry and Animal Sanctuary Trust Indonesia (ASTI) in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. Conservationists recently slammed a government plan that would allow Indonesians to keep endangered Sumatran tigers as pets if they give a $100,000 deposit and build a large enough enclosure. The tigers' DNA is currently being tested to determine their species. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah) #
20. A boy smiles as he plays soccer in a paddy field in Karawang, in Indonesia's West Java province January 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #
21. A worker cooks dodol on the wood stove in a home business in Tangerang, Banten province February 6, 2010. Dodol, which is made of sticky rice, coconut milk, and palm sugar, is a special delicacy sold during the Chinese New Year period in Indonesia. The business increases its production of dodol products by about 50 percent due to higher demand ahead of the celebration. (REUTERS/Supri) #
22. The leg of a patient is chained to a post at the Galuh foundation for people with mental health conditions on February 10, 2010 in Bekasi, Indonesia. Belief in black magic is commonplace in Indonesia, where there is much ignorance over mental health issues, with traditional healers instead consulted for apparent sufferers. 2007 figures suggested that 4.6% of the nation suffered from serious mental disorders in a country whose population now stands at around 230 million, with only around 700 psychiatrists across 48 psychiatric hospitals available to help treat those affected. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) #
23. A patient named Yoyo is bathed at the Galuh foundation for mental patients in East Bekasi near Jakarta on February 11, 2010 in Bekasi, Indonesia. With limited mental heatlth care available in Indonesia, sufferers usually turn to black magic and are taken to "dukuns" or healers who are believed to have magical powers. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) #
24. A villager stands at a protected forest area to collect grass for his livestock in Mojokerto, East Java province February 11, 2010. (REUTERS /Sigit Pamungkas) #
25. A worker stands on a steel rods at a construction site of Kuningan City superblock in Jakarta February 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #
26. Contestants in traditional dresses take part in Social Cultural Transvestite Queen beauty pageant in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, late Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. The transvestite beauty pageant was held for the first time in the country's only province that officially adopted Islamic sharia law. Nearly all of the province's 4 million residents are Muslim. (AP Photo/Heri Juanda) #
27. A young boy wades through floods in Jakarta on February 13, 2010. Thousands of residents took refuge after annual floods hit brink areas of the Ciliwung river caused by heavy rains in Bogor and Jakarta, according to local reports. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) #
28. An activist from the Center for Orangutan Protection (COP) dressed as a "Na'vi" character from James Cameron's movie "Avatar" participates in a protest against replacing forests with palm oil plantations, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) #
29. A worker carries a sack of rice at a paddy field in Karawang, in Indonesia's West Java province January 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #
30. A bronze statue depicting US President Barack Obama as a boy with a butterfly on his finger is kept on a table in a classroom of the Menteng One primary school on February 16, 2010 as it awaits re-installation in the government school compound located in the affluent Menteng district in Jakarta where the young Obama attended in the late 1960's. The statue was removed from a nearby park following opposition by some groups. A portrait of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is seen at top left with Vice President Boediono at top right. (ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images) #
31. Workers process milkfish at a fish farm and hatchery near Pulau Pramuka in the Thousand Islands, north of Jakarta, February 18, 2010. The fish farm, which has a floating hatchery with an area of 3,000 square metres, produces more than 400 kilograms of boneless milkfish a day. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #
32. A student in pig suit yawns during a parade celebrating the upcoming Chinese New Year on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah) #
33. Rescuers carry a dead victim of a landslide at the Dewata village in Pasir Jambu, West Java, on February 24, 2010. Rescuers said that hopes were fading for more than 60 people missing after a landslide struck south of the capital Jakarta, killing at least seven people. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) #
34. Villagers mourn the loss of relatives as the search continues for people buried under a landslide on February 24, 2010 in Dewata, West Java, Indonesia. A heavy rain caused a landslide that destroyed houses, factories and offices at a tea plantation. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) #
35. A villager looks at houses buried by a landslide at Dewata village in Pasir Jambu, West Java, on February 24, 2010. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images) #
36. A caterpillar hangs from a silk thread in Jakarta on January 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #

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Afghanistan, February, 2010

1. U.S. Marine Sgt. Shane Hanley, a squad leader from Easy Company, 2-2 Marines, receives treatment by U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael G. Patangan (left) while airborne in an army Task Force Pegasus medevac helicopter, shortly after Hanley was wounded, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan on February 9th, 2010. Sgt. Hanley, of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, who agreed to have photos of himself published, sustained shrapnel injuries to the left side of his body, face and eye when an improvised explosive device detonated below him while he was on a foot patrol. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
7. U.S. Marines guard a wounded and combative Taliban fighter, one of two captured minutes earlier during a U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus medevac mission, in Marjah, Afghanistan on Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010. The two were transported to a nearby U.S. Navy field hospital. Pegasus aeromedical crews have been attacked regularly over the past days while evacuating the wounded as U.S. and Afghan troops take part in an assault in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
8. A U.S. Marine from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines kneels next to the body of a killed Taliban fighter in the town of Marjah in Nad Ali district of Helmand province February 18, 2010. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)
9. A photo album found in a compound in which the U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment took shelter for the night in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
11. A general view of Kabul, Afghanistan on January 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Marko Djurica)
12. A man passes a vendor displaying Bollywood videos for sale in the old city February 1, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Despite years of foreign involvement and the money being committed to Afghanistan from both private and governmental donors, Afghanistan is still plagued by chronic unemployment and neglected public services. Unemployment in the country of some 25 million people is still 40 per cent with more than half the population living below the poverty line. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
13. Afghan soldiers and security men carry away the bloody body of an unidentified man from the scene of an explosion and a gunbattle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
14. A man collects oranges during a night at a market in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
15. Young men throw snowballs as they stand on the diving board of an abandoned swimming pool on a hill in Kabul February 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
16. Sahil, an Afghan boy, laughs after he slipped on snow outside his house on a hilltop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
17. Clouds loom large as Afghan people shop at a market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
19. A U.S. Predator drone flies over the moon above Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. The Pakistani army said Sunday that it was investigating reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike in mid-January. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
20. A U.S. Marine from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment walks through a farm compound where his company stopped to rest for the night in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
25. Photographed through the plexiglass window of a U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus medevac helicopter rescuing two Marine casualties, U.S. Marine armored vehicles roll through a rubble-strewn battlefield in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Monday Feb. 15, 2010. Thousands of US and Afghan troops are attempting to gain control over the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, encountering sniper fire, home-made bombs, booby traps, and minefields. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
26. Mourners look on as the hearses carrying the coffins of five British soldiers are driven through the streets of Wootton Bassett, in southern England February 18, 2010. Lance Sergeant Dave Greenhalgh, L/Cpl Darren Hicks, Kingsman Sean Dawson, Rifleman Mark Marshall and Sapper Guy Mellors were killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan's Helmand province earlier in February. (REUTERS/Kieran Doherty)
28. A crowd gathers to view the contest in a display of traditional entertainment, as live animals are pitted against each other in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
29. The coffins of two Swedish soldiers, Captain Johan Palmlov and Lieutenant Gunnar Andersson are unloaded from a Swedish Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft on arrival at Arna airport in Uppsala, Sweden on February 10, 2010. The two Swedish army officers and an Afghan interpreter were killed on February 7, 2010 when a patrol came under attack in northern Afghanistan. The attack increased the number of Swedish soldiers killed in Afghanistan to four since Stockholm first sent troops into the country in 2001. (ANDERS WIKLUND/SCANPIX/AFP/Getty Images)
31. A man prepares to smoke heroin in the destroyed former Russian Cultural Center, a notorious drug den on February 02, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. As poppy production in Afghanistan is still high, opium and heroin are cheap and easily available. As a result, drug addiction is a growing problem in Afghanistan with a United Nations survey recently showing over 900,000 people in Afghanistan are considered drug addicts. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
32. Blood seeps into the ground near the site of a suicide attack on a small group of tribal elders and government workers in Khogyani district near Jalalabad, Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. Police say a suicide bomber killed 15 people in eastern Afghanistan, including a key tribal leader who played a major role in the failed attempt to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
33. U.S. Marines patrol outside Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
34. An Afghan girl peers out of her house in a village west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
36. US Marines with 1/3 Charlie Company treat a comrade as they wait for a MEDEVAC helicopter, after their MRAP vehicle was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Trikh Nawar on the north-eastern outskirts of Marjah late February 23, 2010. Three Improvised Explosive Devices exploded injured three US marines as Charlie Company was clearing a four kilometre stretch of road from Lashkar Gah to Marjah. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
37. Janet Baker, the mother of slain Canadian soldier Corporal Joshua Caleb Baker, and family members watch as military pallbearers carry his casket to a waiting hearse during a repatriation ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Trenton February 15, 2010. Corporal Baker of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment was killed and four others were injured in a training accident on a range northeast of Kandahar City, Afghanistan on February 12. (REUTERS/Mike Cassese)
41. A soldier reacts with tears on his eyes during a funeral of a Spanish soldier John Felipe Romero Meneses in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Romero Meneses, 21, who was born in Colombia, was killed and six others were wounded on Monday when a landmine exploded near their vehicle in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
43. An elderly Afghan man sits outside his farm house as a bird flies nearby in Marjah, in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)