I was flicking through the October 2011 issue of National Geographic Magazine on a red sofa placed inside a department store of a new shopping mall in town while my mum and sister were browsing shoes. My eyes stopped on a page displaying the winning images of the annual National Geographic Photography Contest. It took me a few seconds before I realised that two of the top three best pictures had been taken in Indonesia.
Out of curiosity I then searched for more information at home. Three categories are available for submission, namely Places, Nature, and People. In each category you can find the category winner, followed by several honourable mentions and one viewers' choice winner. And out of the three category winners, the judges will pick the grand-prize winner.
And here are the National Geographic winning photos with Indonesia as the setting since its inception in 2006.
2012 National Geographic Photography Contest
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| Fransisca Harlijanto. Category: Nature. Honourable Mention. Thousands of fish move in synchrony in Komodo Island waters. |
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| Wendell Phillips. Category: People. Honourable Mention. A patient of mental sickness is shackled in chains at Yayasan Galuh Rehabilitation Centre in Bekasi, West Java. |
2011 National Geographic Photography Contest
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| Shikhei Goh. Category: Nature. Grand-Prize Winner and Nature Winner. A dragonfly is sprayed with water in Riau Islands. |
2010 National Geographic Photography Contest
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| Aaron Lim Boon Teck. Category: Nature. Grand-Prize Winner and Nature Winner. Mount Rinjani volcano erupts on Lombok Island. |
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| Stephanie Swartz. Category: Nature. Honourable Mention. A lion at a wildlife sanctuary. |
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| Chan Kwok Hung. Category: People. People Winner. A Sumatran farmer and his buffalo charge through the mud in a buffalo race in West Sumatra. |
2009 National Geographic Photography Contest
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| Arie Yudhistira. Category: People. Honourable Mention. Muslim women pray. |
2008 National Geographic Photography Contest
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| Yuniadhi Agung. Category: Places. Honourable Mention. A dog walks past the Hok Tjing Bio temple in Palembang, South Sumatra. |
2007 National Geographic Photography Contest
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| Larry Louie. Category: Landscape. Honourable Mention. Mount Bromo volcano erupts on Java Island. |
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| Larry Louie. Category: People. A member of the Tengger tribe living near Mount Bromo volcano on Java Island. |
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| Larry Louie. Category: People. A chief of the Dani tribe living in Baliem Valley in Papua. |
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