Indonesia

I Wayan Suardana shows his artistic carve that many of them were visualized as elephant. The carve was made from jati wood, so the strength and the groove of the elephant can be seen in detail. We can see the elephant trunk so smooth and clear. I Wayan Suardana said, the inspiration came from Bali religion, especially [...]

This year, Jakarta Annual Festival will be held on June 4-30, taking place in Gedung Kesenian Jakarta (GKJ). The festival has purpose to conserve Indonesia culture since most Indonesian youth don’t take attention to their own culture. On other hand, many tourists and youth from overseas learn and studying Indonesian culture deeply. Artistic Manajer of GKJ, Adi [...]

An unique hotel can be found in Manado, especially during World Ocean Conference 2009. There is a floating hotel that provided by Pelni, Indonesia National Sailing, on Tilong Kabila Sheep. There are many room categories, such as room with 4 beds (Rp 500,000 ~ USD 50), room with 2 beds (Rp 300,000 ~ USD 30), and [...]

On May 16-17 2009, an event was held on Gedung Kesenian Jakarta (Jakarta Art Building). Musical dramatical titled ‘Cinta Dasima’ (Dasima Loving) was performed by many ‘Abang-None Jakarta’, featuring Peqho Theatre. Maudy Koesnaidy, as producer, said this event was held in order to preserve Betawi Culture from extinction.

To promote Indonesia in Belgium, Indonesia took participation in chocolate festival in Belgium. Especially Indonesia is a 3rd biggest chocolate exporter in the world, meanwhile Europe consumption in chocolate is quite big.

Sony Arya Santosa, one of Indonesian artist, will held an exhibition to show, at least, his 40 relief painting. He said, his preparation for this event is about 4 years. So, I’m sure this exhibition is so special and Sony is really focusing to succeed his event. Sony said, his paintings were inspired from photos. Many [...]

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.

On Dec 23 2008, a special festival will be held in Alon-alon Kabupaten Ponorogo, East Java. Well, you can guess what kind of festival, since I wrote it as a title of this article giggle. Yupp…it is Reog festival. More than 45 reog group will participate in that festival, came from many districts. Reog became a hot [...]

Petang Megang is well known as a traditional event in Pekanbaru in order to greet Ramadhan (fast season). This event, in this year, took a place in Siak River and was opened by Pekanbaru major, Herman Abdullah. In his speech, Herman Abdullah wanted this event become an annual event and can attract many visitors (tourists, I [...]

On Indonesian Independent Day, many attractions and competitions were held. You can name those as “Lomba Panjat Pinang”, “Lomba Balap Karung”, “Lomba Makan Krupuk”, and many more, depend on the location and the creativity of the committee. One of the attractive attraction is carnival. In this article, I will write about carnival that was held in [...]