Aha, there you are! I have a question for you! What is it that crosses your mind at first when I mention the word “orangutan”? Is it banana? Is it your mind shouts, “My ancestor!”? Or you have no idea what orangutan really is? Oh well, I visited an art exhibition—Life of Umbrella Species—at Jogja National Museum on Tuesday. This exhibition was held on 31 January to 3 February 2015. Before going further, in case you still wonder what orangutan is, you can check it here.

So, once I left my office, I went right away to Jogja National Museum to see how people would interpret orangutans.  It took only about 20 minutes to this museum from Malioboro but I had longer time since I had no idea where the museum was. Pffff…

Life of Umbrella Species is a part of Art for Orangutan which was a campaign to save orangutans. I read online articles about this campaign and found a sad news. One baby of orangutan that could be saved represented 2 to 10 orangutans which got killed. They couldn't live peacefully in the forest due to logging.  Therefore, the exhibition was done to expose this issue. There were 100 artsy stuffs from 92 artists. Yes, most works of art were framing orangutan.  I took some photos so that you could have a peek what I saw in the museum: