Indonesia

Indonesia has many best destinations, but for people who lives in Jakarta or Banten or West Java, TMII (Taman Mini Indonesia Indah) and Anyer beach can be the best (and nearest) destination for this holiday. Well, holiday season was started on Dec 24 and (I think) will be ended on Jan 5 2009.

Couple days ago, I posted an article about Reog Festival. Well, today I got the latest news about it. Reog Festival was opened in Tuesday, Dec 23 2008, by King of Denpasar, Ida Tjokorda Ngurah Jambe Pemecutan, as Chairman of Forum Silaturahmi Keraton Nusantara(FSKN). There are 50 reog groups took participation in this festival and they [...]

One of destination is cartoon museum Indonesia which is located in Kuta, Bali. You can find more than 800 cartoons from Indonesian artists, such as GM Sidartha, Gatot Eko Cahyono, and Janggo Paramartha. Even it has more than 800 collections, it doesn’t show them up in the same time. Regularly, each 3 months, they publish 176 [...]

On Dec 23 2008, a special festival will be held in Alon-alon Kabupaten Ponorogo, East Java. Well, you can guess what kind of festival, since I wrote it as a title of this article giggle. Yupp…it is Reog festival. More than 45 reog group will participate in that festival, came from many districts. Reog became a hot [...]

From Antara.com, I read an article that inform 3 destination in Indonesia were proposed to be “New 7 Wonders of Nature”. Those destinations are Pulau Komodo (Komodo Island), Danau Toba (Toba Lake), and Pulau Krakatau (Krakatau Island). Indonesia government did some coordination with related department in order to goal those destination into final stage in 2009. The [...]

Well, I read from here, there is a new (promised) destination in Yogyakarta. It is Karst, in Kabupaten Gunung Kidul. It has many uniqueness and tourism potency, such as beautiful beach, hill, stalaktit, stalagmit, and many more. You can see the beauty of beach from the pic. In 1993, Karst was proposed to UNESCO to be announced [...]

Minister of Tourism and Culture, Jero Wacik, predicted during this year (2008), Indonesia will get more than US$ 6.4 Billion from 6.4 million tourism who visited Indonesia. He said this during meeting 2009 Tourism Marketing.