Belitung

Alpian Arahman, a palm planter from Indonesia’s Bangka Belitung Province off Sumatra island, said the rainy season has yet to arrive at his plantation.

The grandson of a miner from Guangzhou, China, Purnama was raised on the Indonesian island of Belitung, east of Sumatra.

It was about 9 a.m. when Ayorbaba heard news of a Lion Air plane that crashed en route to Pangkal Pinang in the Bangka Belitung island chain.

Flight JT-610 was on a scheduled flight from the Indonesian capital to Pangkal Pinang, the main city in the Bangka Belitung Islands.

But when I was in Indonesia last year, I was traveling around with a Canadian eclipse chaser whom I’d met online and we intentionally hooked up on the island of Belitung, Indonesia, and rented a car together.