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Ternate, which is located in North Maluku, has a big potency in marine tourism. If we take a flashback, we can find out, Ternate is one of important harbour for colonizers (Portuguese, Spain, and Netherland). Many buildings and facilities had been built to support the activities. And today, the local government, ...

On Tuesday, April 15 2008, 2 dalang (En: puppeter) demonstrated their abilities to play wayang kulit (shadow puppet). The special thing of this demo is the location, in United Nation HQ, Geneva, Switzerland. Many officials from United Nation came on that night, such as Head of UNOG, Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, Deputy ...

Gunung Kawi is well known as a mystic mountain. A lot of people try to find welfare by helping of dukun (saman). Actually, gunung Kawi has a tourism potential. Hiking is one of potential, but since Lapindo disaster happened, this activity is decreasing. So, to keep gunung Kawi as a tourism ...

Indonesia will take a part on International Miss Tourism. Johnnie Sugiarto, from El John foundation, said this couple days ago. He also said, he will held Indonesia Miss Tourism since he claimed his event will be supported by National Education Department (Depdiknas). The reason why Miss Tourism Indonesia is held, ...

A tour exhibition was held on Melbourne, Australia. Since Indonesia has Visit Indonesia Year 2008 plan, this event was too bad to be missed of. So, through General Consult, Indonesia took a part on the event. This participation has other target, to attract people to visit Indonesia Festival, an annual event ...

Since Saturday until Sunday, April 12-13 2008, a special carnival was held. Why special? Because, it's different with common carnival, this carnival is batik carnival, Solo batik carnival for sure. This carnival has a special concept, fashion show on the street. Some models will perform some ...

Recently, batik industry (especially in Pekalongan, one of batik industry center) is flagging. The increasing of main materials is the main cause, otherwise the demand is decreasing as well. Some home industries were closed or inactive, because they can't afford the outcome for the salary, electricity bill, and (still) the price of main materials. For example, the price of cloth. It is increasing from Rp 6,000/yard to Rp 6,700/yard (about US$0.60 to US$0.67). Meanwhile malam's price is also increasing more than 3 times, from Rp 4,000/kg to Rp 13,000/kg (about US$0.4 to US$1.3).