Ulet Ifansasti

Oct 23, 2024 | nytimes.com | Hannah Beech |Ryn Jirenuwat |Ulet Ifansasti

Maliki Dorok was crammed into a sweltering truck in the middle of a stack of men, piled up five high like logs. Three rows were on top of him, pressed so close together that he inhaled the air they breathed out. Below him was another layer of prone men, their panting lapsing over the hours into a terrible quietude. Mr. Maliki's arms were bound behind his back. A bullet was lodged in his leg. It was Ramadan 20 years ago this week, and Mr. Maliki had not eaten or drunk anything since daybreak.

Jun 20, 2024 | nytimes.com | Muktita Suhartono |Ulet Ifansasti

Leaving her hut that hovered on stilts above crystal blue water, Zausiyah got into her boat at sunrise and rowed out to sea, looking down into the clear water for fish. When she found a choice spot, she stored her paddle, baited four hooks and tossed her line down into the deep waters of the Molucca Sea in Indonesia. Sometimes the hooks came back empty; other times she caught four fish in one throw. Image Zausiyah paddling in her canoe.

Apr 17, 2024 | buffalonews.com | Ulet Ifansasti

Muslim men perform ablution before Friday Prayers at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec. 15, 2023. Thanks to slow-flow faucets and a water recycling system, worshipers use much less water to cleanse themselves before prayers. (Ulet Ifansasti/The New York Times)

Apr 17, 2024 | buffalonews.com | Ulet Ifansasti

The Al-Muharram “eco-mosque”, where congregants would often sit in darkness because of chronic power shortages, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Dec. 10, 2023. More than 5,000 people helped raise money to install solar panels at the mosque. (Ulet Ifansasti/The New York Times)

Apr 17, 2024 | nytimes.com | Sui-Lee Wee |Ulet Ifansasti

Inspecting solar panels that provide electrical power to Istiqlal Mosque in December in Jakarta, Indonesia. Credit... The faithful gathered in an imposing modernist building, thousands of men in skullcaps and women in veils sitting shoulder to shoulder. Their leader took to his perch and delivered a stark warning. "Our fatal shortcomings as human beings have been that we treat the earth as just an object," Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar said.