Arie Smit, A Living Legend
Monday, March 27th, 2006 by ablteam
Arie Smit was born in Zaandam in the the Netherlands on April 15, 1916 and was christened Adrianus Wilhelmus Smit. He first arrived in Batavia (Jakarta) in 1938. Drafted by the army he was set to work in the Topographical Service in the then Dutch East Indies. There he used to etch Balinese mountains onto maps and this ignited his desire to one day go to Bali.
In 1951 Smit became an Indonesia citizen. “I was so sure that this my is my country” he says. And he has stayed true to his words. Since his arrival in Bali in 1956, this tropical paradise has been his home and his inspiration.
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