Bulan Alliance

**Highest Placing Member**: Clay (Winner)

The Bulan Alliance was an alliance from Survivor: Indonesia.

This alliance was originally created by a strong trio of women and it appeared that they would dominate every single tribe throughout the game. Their relationships as friends and allies changed from vote to vote, which drastically affected the strength and loyalty of the alliance by the merge.

## History

### Foundations

The blue Bulan tribe was formed on Day 1 of *Survivor: Indonesia* containing ten formerly pre-merge Survivor castaways. Anastasia decided to mimic the beginning of her game from *Survivor: The Amazon* by creating a women's alliance with Ellie, Evelyn, Laurie and Tatianna. Her closest relationship within this alliance was with Evelyn, where the pair found a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol which Evelyn eventually found in secret. Despite this, the girls were becoming more annoyed with Ellie's constant singing and dancing to the point where they were considering cutting her at their first loss. When Bulan lost the immunity challenge on Day 6, the girls created a larger alliance with Alexander, Clarence and Frankie in order to split the votes between Ellie and Tom. The four girls had the numbers in this situation and Ellie was voted out.

### Anastasia vs. Evelyn

At the tribe switch on Day 12, Anastasia, Clarence, Evelyn, Frankie and Tom remained on Bulan whilst being joined by Clay, Kate-Lyn and Luke from Matahari. The Bulan Alliance told Evelyn they would be going after a Matahari castaway should they lose, but were willing to blindside her and still remain in the majority. At their first loss, the Bulan Alliance voted for Evelyn but she played an idol. This caused a tied vote between Luke and Tom, where Anastasia and Frankie turned on Tom at the revote in order to avoid a deadlocked vote. After losing her ally, Anastasia returned to the Bulan camp and was vocal about wanting to keep loyalty within the alliance. She was angry at Frankie for not flipping on Tom and throwing Anastasia under the bus when in fact it was Clarence who didn't flip. When Bulan lost their second challenge in a row, the Bulan Alliance were in the minority and Frankie was voted out. Sensing the merge was approaching, Anastasia and Evelyn made amends for the short term and agreed to have a hidden alliance.

### Minority at the Merge

When the tribes merged at the Final Thirteen, Anastasia chose to leave her Bulan allies Alexander and Laurie in favour of working with Tatianna and Evelyn's allies. This new group had the numbers and they eliminated Chet. This alliance also felt they had the majority at the second vote and agreed to go after Xavier. However, Tatianna joined the two smaller alliances together in order to blindside Luke. The Bulan Alliance at this point was reduced to Anastasia, Clay, Evelyn and Kate-Lyn, but Clay and Kate-Lyn flipped to the majority after Evelyn and Tatianna had a huge argument upon their return to camp. Evelyn sensed she was on the chopping block and found what she thought was a real idol. This gave Evelyn more confidence, where she developed a split vote plan against Clay and Kate-Lyn. At tribal council however, Evelyn played her fake idol, her split vote plan failed and the Matahari Alliance led by Tatianna had an overwhelming majority to eliminate Evelyn.

The loss of Evelyn meant Anastasia was the only Bulan Alliance member left by the Final Ten. However, the sheer size of the Matahari Alliance meant that Clarence, Clay and Kate-Lyn flipped back to work with Anastasia. This alliance spoke to Tatianna and tried to convince her to blindside Laurie, but they remained in the minority and Kate-Lyn was voted out. Clay felt confident in his social relationships with Anastasia and Clarence, but decided to continue his strategic relationship with Tatianna's Matahari Alliance. Anastasia and Clarence were completely out of the loop at this vote, but Clay assured their safety whilst Shilpa was eliminated when her and Kimberly turned on each other.

Anastasia, Clarence and Clay were frustrated that Tatianna wasn't willing to work with them and instead decided to campaign to the other members within the Matahari Alliance. No one was willing to make a move against Tatianna with the Bulan Alliance, leading to Clarence becoming the sixth member of the jury on Day 30. Anastasia and Clay knew that if they didn't continue trying to dismantle the Matahari Alliance, they would follow Clarence on the jury. They decided to talk to Tatianna again and told her that she could be blindsided if she let her quieter allies make it to the end together. Tatianna considered this idea and was most worried about Laurie. At tribal, the Bulan Alliance succeeded and Laurie was unanimously voted out.

### Making Day 39

Anastasia and Clay were excited that their move against Laurie had worked and felt that now was the time to go after Tatianna. They scared Alexander by saying that all four members of the Matahari Alliance couldn't make it to Day 39 and promised him a Final Three deal if he voted with them. At tribal council, the trio voted for Tatianna but the Matahari Alliance voted for Anastasia. This then led to a deadlocked tie when no one switched their vote at the revote. Anastasia and Tatianna then became immune with Clay, who had won individual immunity. Alexander, Kimberly and Xavier then drew rocks, where Alexander was eliminated after he drew the odd rock. This left Anastasia and Clay in the perceived minority, but Xavier played his idol and voted with the Bulan Alliance in order to blindside Tatianna. This new trio made a Final Three deal with each other and voted out Kimberly when she failed to win the final individual immunity challenge. Ultimately, Clay was awarded the title of Sole Survivor over Anastasia and Xavier because his social game was perceived as the most genuine.