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The Sea was Fused with His Heart, Can’t be Separated Again

“Sail has become my routine work. So this has been merged Sinaboi Sea with my heart. Despite it’s now shallow, still she was able to provide livelihood to me …”

Unload bambo fish trap: Abu Hasan (83) smile when unload fish from the waters, Sinaboi Kecil Village, District of Rokan Hilir, Riau, Indonesia. Today cacht dominantly is Sembilang fish (Sea cat Fish).

EYE Abu Hasan (87) peered farther into the strait between the island Sinaboi, seat of the chair provided by a coffee shop owner (akau) located in the Sineboi Kecil Village and only about 100 meters from the beach Sinaboi Strait.

With eyelids already beginning to fall and the blackened scars visible, then his eyebrows and head covered with white hair had started, the child remained with her eyes still look sharp and without wearing glasses. His eyes were focused on every now and then a passing fishing boat in the Strait Sinaboi and also the residents who came in the coffee shop.
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Faithful native fishermen with this Sinaboi Strait, occasionally sucking deep clove cigarette in his fingers. Then release slowly from his lips that had eaten the black due to age and also due to the heat of the embers of a cigarette into his friend had been fishing. (more…)