Indonesia

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last Saturday, Jakarta citizen were entertained by Cipete Vaganza, a biggest (I think) vaganza that ever made in Jakarta on this year. This event was held in Cipete, one region in South of Jakarta. Cipete Vaganza object is to conserve Betawi culture and to celebrate the ...

Since Friday, July 25 2008, an art festival had been held in Magelang, right in the front of Borobudur temple. There are 2 terminology for this art festival, Central Java Art Festival and Borobudur Society Festival. Well, we don't have to argue about the terminology, ...

Indonesia has many handycraft producers. One of them can be found in Pekanbaru, Riau. Een Kastalani is the person that I mean. She open her business on 1996 since she loves handycraft very much, especially in bordir (well, sorry I couldn't find the match word ...

EU is still applying ban for Indonesian Airlines. Transportation minister, Jusman Syafii Djamal, said this after he met with EU investigation team in Jakarta this noon. He said, EU team still found any violations in some Indonesian airlines, but didn't mention which airlines who did. Well, if we read some news ...

Garuda Airlines made a collaboration with Korean Air in order to expand their markets. By this collaboration, Garuda can sell a ticket that Korean Air has the route for that way, it valids vice versa. This agreement was signed by Emirsyah ...

Albertina Fransisca Mailoa (22) or Chika which represents Maluku gets Putri Pariwisata Indonesia 2008 (Miss Tourism Indonesia 2008). Even she was quite nervous when she stepped into the big five, she said she was proud with herself since she could answer all questions, calm and ...