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Batik Laweyan

Comments fahmi — August 25, 2008 / 10:24 am

There are many variants of batik. One of them is batik Laweyan from Solo. Laweyan was coming from the village where majority of the residents work as batik maker. On this village, batik become part of life, not only for (ceremonial) dressing but also for becak (one of traditional Indonesia vehicle) accessories. Nowadays, there is a batik [...]

Anak Krakatau Condition

Comments fahmi — August 24, 2008 / 10:19 pm

Anak Krakatau, as one of best destination in Indonesia, for this week was announced as a prohibit destination to be visited. The cause was it’s activities were increasing, and it means it will endanger the tourism especially, and the civilization around it. However, Krakatau Festival 2008 Committee still put visiting Anak Krakatau on the agenda. Especially, [...]

Decreasing, Tourists who Visit Jakarta

Comments fahmi — August 12, 2008 / 11:33 pm

Since there were many demonstrations, especially during moment of gas price was going to increase, that ended in chaos, many tourist decided not to visit Jakarta. The safety factor became their priority, since Jakarta had a bad moment in 1998. Previously, there were 128.772 visiting on May 2008 but in June, the number was decreasing, not [...]

Fire in Some National Parks

Comments fahmi — August 12, 2008 / 12:12 pm

Recently, there are some national parks are on fire. Let’s say, Merapi Mountain and Ciremai Mountain National Parks. The damage is quite bad since in Indonesia is a dry season, so the wind’s blows make the fire is getting bigger. Some actions had to be done, not only by the fireman but also the local forestry official. [...]

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