TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN INDONESIA

It is interesting to think back to how times have changed. Time total solar eclipse occurred on June 11, 1983, the atmosphere was very different.

People were warned to be in the home because of fears of a solar eclipse will adversely affect their health and can even cause blindness. Finally, many people who just watch the solar eclipse through state television, rather than go out and look up into the sky - the pregnant women even hide under the bed.

Times have changed, more than thirty years later, in 2016, the atmosphere is contradictory. In remote areas of Sulawesi, tourists come in very large quantities. Additional boats used to transport them. All over the country more than a hundred thousand people are getting ready to see this extraordinary phenomenon that can only be witnessed in Indonesia.

The total solar eclipse will cross 12 out of 34 provinces in Indonesia starting from Sumatara followed by Kalimantan and the next eclipse will cross the islands of Sulawesi and Maluku.
A variety of events have been prepared in the archipelago.

 In Central Kalimantan these events will be celebrated with a traditional ceremony Dayak aiming to drive out evil spirits in order not to swallow Batara Kala Kala Sang.
Meanwhile in Palu, Central Sulawesi visitors of the festival has been held a welcoming party this phenomenon last few days.

Even the president reportedly plans to join hundreds of observers on the island of Belitung to witness this eclipse events.

In Jakarta, a place to watch a partial solar eclipse is at the planetarium. Do not forget at the end of the archipelago in the Maluku spice historic. The islands are elected by a joint team of NASA and Space agency (National Institute of Aeronautics and Space) to point to document this incident with the camera NASA observers latest draft.

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