Indonesia

During this holiday, Kaliurang became one of favorit destination for tourists, both domestic or abroad. Kaliurang is located 24 km from Yogyakarta, can be reached in 30 minutes using public transportation. It’s about 2,000 tourists (most of them are domestic) came to enjoy the place. It’s more 3 times if we compare the number on daily [...]

Happy Eid Mubarak! I’m sorry for my faults on this blog. :-)

Well, since bomb incident on July, some people think the Jakarta tourism is going to doom point because the bombing happened in the strategic region in Jakarta, Mega Kuningan, a part of Golden Triangle. And also, the bomb was pointing hotel, a place that never been thought will being a bomb target. The lucky thing is [...]

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 [...]

Many events will be held during 5th Aceh Festival, Aug 1-11, on Banda Aceh. Culture parade, culture simposium, traditional games, and many more can be found and enjoyed. Aceh EXPO is also included since there is a goal to promote and try to sell Aceh tourism to foreigner. The opening ceremony will be executed by President [...]

There are many ways to promote Indonesia. Held an exhibition is one of them. But, what will be exposed on that exhibition? Since Indonesia has many things to be shown, batik maybe the easiest part to be shown on exhibition. Well, there are many various batik in Indonesia so I’m sure batik has a great potential. We [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Lombok has potency to held “World Dance Championships” in 2010. This statement came out from Vice President of World Dance Council (WDC)), Marcel de Rijk, on Senggigi, West Lombok. He promised to actualize his statement. But he also need support to succeed Lombok International Dance Championships 2009, today, June 21 2009. He said if the current [...]