About me

Assalamu'alaikum

Hello, my name is Mulyanto Darmawan, just call me Darmawan, I was born in Jakarta. I spent my children hood in this Indonesia capital city till I finished my high school in 1983. In the same year I moved to Yogyakarta (around 600 km far from Jakarta) to continue my study at Agriculture faculty of Gadjah Mada University. That was the first time I had to live separate with my parent, my brother and sister, also my closed friends indeed. It was a hard day and I feel sad at that time. I was thinking it would be lonely live in Jogyakarta till I found hospitalized this city. I met a lot of friends and people with the highesh humble and polite character's I have ever met, also I met my beloved wife; we studied at the same university.

Yogya actually was the capital city of Indonesia during independence war, it was around 1948. It also known as"Kota Pelajar" or the city for student. Also known as a "Gudeg city". "Gudeg" is a famous traditional food name for Java people, it makes from young jackfruit and coconut mild. It having a little bit sweet but delicious flavour, so if you visit Jogya don't miss to taste this food. You can find numerous universities and institutes in this city, probably compare to other cities in Indonesia, Jogya has the most in number of university as well as tradisional handycraft.The ilustration about Jogya written here, probably differ from those you find in the web site or your own experience. so I just say, let have visit Jogya.....

Soon after completed my study in 1989, I went back to Jakarta. As "a Betawi" is a native people of Jakarta. Weell actually Jakarta is not a really my home town, bcos my parent is not"betawi". they came from central Java. However, since I was born and mostly my livelihood is in Jakarta, thats way, Jakarta its seem become my second home town.

I work at National Agency for Survey and Mapping (Bakosurtanal) from April 1991. Here I have been introduced with remote sensing application for the first time since I known about remote sensing from lecture, it was just as "a glance knowledge"., I took this course with only 1 credit. Remote sensing application was really rare in Indonesia at that time and our office was leading on promoting and training this technique to the other government official, particularly on thematic and database mapping. Now many office and department have been using intensively this technique, Nevertheles our office still conducting a Remote sensing and GIS training for operator and analyser from regional government official

My office is located about 50 km from Jakarta. In July 11, 1997 I moved to Cibinong city in order to make closer to my work. I Thanks to Allah SWT for His gift of my beloved children NIA, AI and Irfan. They were companying me when I moved to the new city. I just stayed for one year in this city when I had to leave Indonesia on October 1, 1998 to Japan for studying at Tsukuba University, Graduate school of Environmental Sciences.

I finished my master degree two year later. Now I am studying at Tokyo university at graduate school of agriculture and life sciences for Ph.D program. I have the other activities than my study such as play badminton, or tennis also jogging, running and of course barbeque. I have enjoying bicycling whenever go to the campus, I have a nice bicycle it was a present from my friends sam. I like some traditional Japanese foods such as "sushi", "onigiri", and "tendo" and for all Japannese sea food but I don't like Japanese sauce and Japanesse meat. I also like sphagetti -Italian food. As far as all the food is labbeled "halal", no matter about the flavor I will grasp and taste it

Well wanna you see my face... Yes No

my best regard

Mulyanto Darmawan

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