Our adventure in Indonesia started with a trip to Jakarta. We were greeted by an (un)healthy dose of heat, noise, and smog and endured a week of frustrating, but necessary, red-tape, government officials (more often behind ping-pong tables than desks), and hair-raising taxi drives in order to validate our LIPI research permits. Eventually we received the go ahead to conduct our research and excitedly booked flights to Kalimantan (the Indonesian half of Borneo), enjoying our [...]

  Gibbons   Camp Leakey, Gibbons, Tanjung Puting, by Hugh Sturrock and Anna Lewis.