Indonesia

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 [...]

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 recently, we are still can find [...]

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 Satar, Garuda Airlines President, and Lee Jong Hee, as President and CEO Korean Air. By this [...]

Well, the holiday season, especially school holiday will be over soon. Many families are preparing themselves to go home and back to the routine activities after they take a rest during holiday. But, there is a problem. Which vehicle that suitable for going home? This question appears since only 2 choices, plane or bus, and the [...]

Bali Government will give award for tourism aware groups who contribute and participate on Bali tourism development. The award will be given direct by Bali governor, Drs Dewa Beratha, on August in event of Bali government 50th anniversary. There is a team that hunting, investigating, makes selection, and rating the groups that qualify the criterias. From 7 [...]

This Sunday, July 13 2008, a special festival will be held in Jakarta International Event and Convention Centre (JITEC), Mangga Dua Square, Jakarta. As you can read in the title, the festival name is religious art festival. Many artists will attend this festival. We can name Iwan Fals and Cici Paramida as guest star on the [...]

Recently, Indonesia is entering power crisis period. Some areas in Java and Bali will take turns to be extinct the power facility. This situation, direct or indirect, will affect the tourism prospect since many destinations need electricity for running their business. Tourism and Culture Department hopes this crisis will not disturb the tourism activities, moreover to [...]

Some youths, which joined in People’s Puppet Project For Youth, held an unique event on Sunday, July 6 2008, in Paseban Bantul. The event was called Giant Puppet Theatre which took Bantul Segaraning Asmara as theme. Many people enjoyed the event, since they welcomed the event. Most of them are children, that their expresses were very [...]

I received a shocking news couple days ago. It said, Qantas&Continental, 2 airline company from Australia & USA, will stop their route and service to Bali. The main reason is the price of oil that is getting higher and they can afford it. But there is another reason, many Indonesia airport less concern about the [...]

On Friday night, July 4 2008, finally new Abang and None Jakarta was chosen. Abang Medha Satyarengga and None Million Sekarsari were chosen as Abang and None Jakarta 2008 after they can set aside their competitors (about 34) from other region of Jakarta. Abang Medha Satyarengga comes from Central Jakarta meanwhile None Million Sekarsari comes from [...]