Indonesia

A warning signal is coming! Based on exploration in Rinca island and Komodo island, nowadays it’s quite difficult to find komodo on those islands. Some prediction, especially from the guides who work there, this is happen because the food is getting hard to be found. In Rinca island, the population was predicted about 1,400. But now, [...]

Last Saturday night, there was an event was held on Borobudur. The event is “Night of Million Candles” in order to make a pray in Borobudur. Hundred Buddhists came and pray solemnly. Yabin as one of committee member said, the candle light event has meaning that human soul will bring peace in the world.

Well, the headline maybe quite provocative, but yes, it’s true. Ida Bagus Made Parsa, as Chief of Transportation, Information, and Communicayion, said that. The statement is related with the incoming Nyepi day, Hindunese Saka New Year 1931, on March 26 2009. During that day, all transportation will inactive for 24 hours, from 06.00 WITA on Thursday, [...]

Sarbini, as Chief of Forum Silaturahmi Insan Pariwisata (Tourism Goodwill Forum), said the long holiday is very good for tourism, especially in the rural and local area, since many tourists (especially domestic tourists) will come and visit many destinations during that day. He also said, the destination management officers (and local government) should pay attention for [...]

The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2009 release a statement about world tourism. From the statement, Indonesia has position in 81th, meanwhile Singapore is in top ten. The data were collected from any resources, include from business practicals. The Top Ten list os Switzerland, Austria, German, France, Canada, Spain, Swedia, US, Australia, and Singapore. For ASEAN countries, [...]

Today, many expats attract to wear batik, one of Indonesia cultures. There are many reasons why they wear (and love) batik, such as the beauty and the motives of batik. Well, we can see, there are many motives of batik, maybe thousands, and each motives has an uniqueness, not only the pattern but also the [...]