Indonesia

One of favorite destination for tourists, local and abroad, is Mentawai. Especially for the surfer, they are very happy and exciting with the beach in Mentawai. The waves is quite challenging and the blue of sea is attracting anybody to surf. Well, in Mentawai you can take a rest in uma, or Mentawai traditional house. While [...]

Indonesia has many exotic places and destinations. One of them is Calabai, Dompu in Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT). We can see the beauty and view around Tambora mountain there. You also can visit beaches and enjoy undersea world by diving. If we arrive on the destination, we will feel the time is stopping since the infrastructure [...]

This week, Malaysia made a ‘hot’ movement, by claiming Pendet Bali as Malaysia’ traditional dance. This claim made many Indonesians angry and protest to Malaysia government, especially the dance was inserted into Malaysia tourism commercial break. After couple days, Indonesia government took an action, by sent a protest note to Malaysia government. Indonesia Minister of Culture [...]

One of traditional game in Indonesia is whirligig. On July 2009, there was a national whirligig festival in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII). This event was held by TMII, collaborated with Tourism & Culture Ministry. There were many attendees on the festival. They show their whirligig from each district and region in Indonesia. Well, you can [...]

In West Java, we can found some traditional games that many kids never know or even heard about them. The games are: Cak Teu. We make a puppet and play it with other friends. Perepet jengkol. This game is quite similar with hide and seek, but in different method. [...]

For 10 years, the population of komodo, in their own place, Komodo Island, is decreasing quite significant. The decreasing number is about 10 times for last 10 years. So, let’s say, if there were 100 komodos on 1999, there are only 10 komodos today. Many factors cause this, such as: Deers population is [...]

After Jakarta bomb which targeted Marriott and Ritz Carlton, many hotels that target domestic tourist are still survive. The main reason is the domestic tourists never worry about the security. Well, you can say, in other word, they don’t care. ;-) This condition can be proven by Aryaduta hotel network. The reservation to those hotels (in [...]

According the conservation of Komodo, there is one effort that being controversional. The moving of Komodo from Komodo Island to Bali issue became a hot issue, since many domestic staffs reject it. The moving plan, based on some news, will move many komodos from Flores Island (Komodo Island) to Taman Safari Indonesia in Gianyar Bali. Some people [...]

Bali is still attractive for foreign tourists. We can see from the number of foreign tourists who visited Bali during Jan-June 2009. From here, I got data the specific foreign tourist visited Bali. There was 1,017,661 arrivals of foreign tourists, where as the economic condition is not quite good since there was an economic crisis since [...]