Indonesia

Since swaine flu became epidemi, Bali (government) is getting more paranoid since many persons (tourists) came, especially who came from the country where swaine flu had been detected. The difficult thing is swaine flu suspect couldn’t be detected by ordinary tools or thermal tool that had been introduced recently. Many swaine flu patients didn’t show up [...]

MURI (Museum Rekor Indonesia) give award to Prof Dr Edi Dharmana as a person who play wayang orang (people puppet) for a coon’s age. For your information, Edi had been played as wayang orang since he is an elementary student. Hmmm…it means, more than 60 years. Superb! Before Edi, MURI gave the same award to Ngesti [...]

Well, many Indonesian people, especially Indonesian youth, don’t know what Jegog is. Jegog is one of Balines traditional art. During president campaign, jegog got a special attention since many campaign team hire jegog artists to perform during the campaign. At least, this is what happened to Tingklik, one of jegog artists from Jembaran, Bali. The attractive and [...]

Solo was held Mangkunegaran Performing Art in hall of Mangkunegaran last week. On that event, many cultures especially related with Mangkunegaran, can be seen by many visitors, especially right now is vacation time for students. Puro Mangkunegaran is well known as one of Java culture source since it has a powerful influence to the society, not [...]

Well, many people don’t pay attention when they are swimming in the beach. They ignore the sign and the baywatch suggestions. This attitude can harm themself especially for them who visiting the beach for the first time, so they don’t know the beach’s attitude. This is what happened to 2 students from STIE Kesatuan Bogor, who [...]

Ancol introduced International Folklore as one of their events. On that event, many culture from abroad (right now there are 5 countries involved) will be shown to enrich knowledge from Ancol visitors, such as Poland, India, Philipine, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Many traditional dancing from each countries can be seen. Indonesia will held traditional dancing from Betawi, Aceh, [...]

In order to prevent culture from extinction, there are many efforts to be done by government. One of them is held National Culture Jambore in Pacitan, East Java. This event was held by Culture and Tourism Department which made partnership with Boyscout Council. This partnership has been worked since 2004. This year, the theme is My Culture, [...]

Well, this is a last week for holiday. I mean for your children. Maybe you and your family can spend your time by take your children to a ranch in Lembang, Bandung. Your children can play as cowboy (or cowgirl) in “The Ranch”. The location, as I mentioned, in Lembang, Bandung. It’s about 1 hour if [...]

At least, 4 airlines from Indonesia are allowed to do some flights to Europe since Europe Union released the banned. They are Garuda Indonesia, Mandala Airlines, Airfast Indonesia, and Premiair. Royhan N Wahab, Secretary in Pensosbud KBRI Brusel, said this in London on Friday. The decision was released after the meeting which was held by Air [...]