After Bali, I flew to Surabaya which is on eastern Java beside Bali. My flight was delayed for almost 2 hours when we landed, straight to the hotel to check-in and off to dinner - a steamboat dinner cum meeting with clients and back to hotel and more meetings until mid-night...Another one tiring day passed.
The next day, we drove down another 1 hour from the city to visited some factories and more meetings. Dinner with another batch of suppliers and more meetings..
"Jer Basuki Mawa Bea" are the words emblazoning the emblem of East Java. Translated. they mean that achievments are only won through sacrifice. This is certainly an appropriate motto, especially for the people of Surabaya. the 'City of Heroes'. whose history of struggle against foreign invaders is well known.
Surabaya is the commercial and administrative capital of East Java, a thriving business and industrial centre and the province's main port. Second only to Jakarta in size and importance, the city has a population of around 2.5 million residents. From the port area of Tanjung Perak ferries leave regularly for Madura, and air services to and from Surabaya's Juanda Airport connect the city with Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Bali and other parts of Indonesia.
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