Indonesia

Well, Bali was also became a victim of bombing on 2002. After that moment, Bali tourism were freezing for couple months and it was really affected the Balinese life since they were quite shocked for the terror. But now, after 10 days after the Jakarta bombing incident, it seems the tourism in Bali will not affected [...]

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 [...]

After Jakarta bombing on July 17 2009, many destinations especially in Jakarta rising the security level to prevent next bomb terror. Ancol is one destination that predicted can be the next target. So, no wonder many tourists were scanned their belongings by the security staffs before they enter the place. However, Ancol is still quite crowded [...]

This morning, another bomb explosion happened in Marriott Hotel (again). It also happened in Ritz, right in the front of Marriott. Many victims there, include Holcim President for Indonesia. Geez…

Since swaine flu became epidemi, Bali (government) is getting more paranoid since many persons (tourists) came, especially who came from the country where swaine flu had been detected. The difficult thing is swaine flu suspect couldn’t be detected by ordinary tools or thermal tool that had been introduced recently. Many swaine flu patients didn’t show up [...]

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 [...]

Well, many Indonesian people, especially Indonesian youth, don’t know what Jegog is. Jegog is one of Balines traditional art. During president campaign, jegog got a special attention since many campaign team hire jegog artists to perform during the campaign. At least, this is what happened to Tingklik, one of jegog artists from Jembaran, Bali. The attractive and [...]

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 [...]

Well, many people don’t pay attention when they are swimming in the beach. They ignore the sign and the baywatch suggestions. This attitude can harm themself especially for them who visiting the beach for the first time, so they don’t know the beach’s attitude. This is what happened to 2 students from STIE Kesatuan Bogor, who [...]

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, [...]