Story of a Small Town

on June 20, 2009

Forget the popular Taiwanese movie of the seventies, The story of a Small Town starring Taiwanese Lin Fong Chiao and Hongkie Kenny Bee or its evergreen theme song which bore the same name, sung by the late Theresa Teng. This small town with a big Chinese population, Bagan Api, is in Sumatra, Indonesia. A resident there, Ang Geok Tin said that the town started over a century ago when the Chinese from Fujian, China, trying to escape the war back home, set sail to Sumatra. In a dream, Kiew Ong Yea, a Chinese deity, told the people to land at a place with light. One night, the people just saw the jungle lit up – with fireflies - and Bagan Api was born...

Celebration at Bagan Api, Sumatera...