Indonesia

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today, many expats attract to wear batik, one of Indonesia cultures. There are many reasons why they wear (and love) batik, such as the beauty and the motives of batik. Well, we can see, there are many motives of batik, maybe thousands, and each motives has an uniqueness, not only the pattern but also the [...]

One of the greatest Indonesian heritages is angklung. It came from West Java, Sunda. Many artists had introduced angklung, not only came from Sunda/West Java, but Mang Udjo (his full name is Udjo Ngalagena) is well known as artist that dedicated his life for angklung. Eventhough he had passed away many years ago, he left a [...]

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 for it). Her store provides Melayu bordirs in many patterns, but [...]

Couple days ago, Riau Culture Council held a special event as appreciaton for Soetardji Calzoum Bachri, a poet from Riau, that celebrated his 67th anniversary. Chairboard of Riau Culture Council, Eddy Akhmad RM, said this event was held for respecting Soetardji’s all efforts, especially that related with Riau culture. Soetardji felt lucky for this appreciation event. [...]

Who doesn’t know Zainuddin MZ? He was well known as a Mufti of a million public. His preach was very famous during 80-90, we can hear his voice everywhere, not only in the side of street but also in the office environment. This year, his popularity maybe not quite bright since his era (maybe) is over. [...]

Mimi Rasinah, which is well known as an Indonesian dancing maestro, is back! Of course, she is not performing dance, since she got stroke for 4 years. She is back to attend on Jakarta Anniversary Festival 2008 in Jakarta Culture Building, Friday night (20/6). She watched her daughter and grand daughter performed Topeng Dance, a traditional [...]