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 [...]

French Airline, Air France, made a collaboration with KLM, Dutch Airlines, to establish a direct flight from Amsterdam to Denpasar (via Singapore). Air France - KLM Country Manager, Axel Colen, said this statement after met Denpasar major IB Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, SE. Msi on Tuesday. This direct flight was established since many Europan Tourists have a [...]

Makassar, which is located in South of Sulawesi, has many beautiful and maginificent destinations. Unfortunately, the local government doesn’t quite care about this potentials. So, the visiting to Makassar is not quite high. If we try to search more deep about the potentials in Makassar, we will find out Trans Studio, Bira Bulukamba beach, and Bantimurung [...]

On 2010, Culture&Tourism Department has a plan to build about 200 tourism villages in Indonesia. This number is increasing 100% from the original plan since there is a program from Indonesia Government. Each villages will receive about Rp 80 million - Rp 100 million to fix and enhance the (tourism) facilities on their place. Some facilities [...]

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

Actually, some destinations in Indonesia can attract many tourists from many countries, also from Malaysia. Malaysian tourists have quite high interest to visit West Sumatera. It can be seen from the increasing of the arrival during July 2009. From here I read that on July more than 6.872 Malaysian tourists came. There are many reasons why Malaysian [...]

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 [...]

Based on some claims from Malaysia to many Indonesian cultures, I think Indonesia Gov must starting keep Indonesian cultures. Since Indonesia has many traditional cultures, I think the gov must take strategic plans to collect and register them. Right now, Indonesia gov must declare that Tari Pendet is one of Indonesian cultures! The claim from Malaysia [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]