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Sitting on terrace while enjoying a glass of warm coffee and fried banana and tofu, vaguely I heard Javanese gamelan sound from my neighbor’s house. The atmosphere was so intimate and beautiful. It reminded me about several years ago when I was still in university. We had to study how to play Gamelan. The beautiful [...] Read more »

On May 28 2002, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X held a wedding ceremony for his oldest daughter, GKR Pembayun. The wedding was done based on the tradition and procedures of the keraton1 which have been hold for centuries.

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Once upon a time in Lombok, there was a kingdom named Kuripan. The king of Kuripan is a man full of wisdom. He had a daughter, Mandalika. She was so beautiful that many princes wanted to marry her. Because there were too many princes who wanted to marry Mandalika, the king of [...] Read more »

PAYAU……. Let’s meet this special animal of Kalimantan.

The word ‘payau’ would not sound too strange for us (Indonesian people). However, this is not ‘payau’ as we have normally understood as the meeting of river and the see. Neither is it coastal vegetative habitate. payau is what people from Kalimantan call for ‘deer’. Maybe it is [...] Read more »

TUKAR ISTERI DAN SALAM…… Sending regards in Papua may not be a simple thing. On the other hand, wife exchange is not impossible.
WANT TO JOIN “EXCHANGING WIVES”?

The above title seems too vulgar or negative for Indonesian people in general. However, it is not so for Asmat people in Papua. The following is the information [...] Read more »

BECAK..OH BECAK… Have you been going on a becak? Are you impressed, or, maybe upset? You’d better read though this writing to check the passenger’s and the becak driver’s points of view.

Being a unique means of transportation, becak is often chosen by foreign tourists when they visit Yogya. Besides it is inexpensive, becak, which is [...] Read more »

Taking a visit to monuments from the Indian period of Indonesian history, right before the gates we will normally see a couple of fierce-looking creatures. They are called Dvarapalas, the temple guards. The word Dvarapala is derived from the Sanskrit ‘dvara’ (meaning ‘door’, ‘gate’, or ‘passage’) and ‘pala’ (means ‘guard’ or protector’).

Dvarapalas, wherever they are [...] Read more »

Do you find difficulties to choose a hand-made batik? Sometimes it happens to us when we are shopping in a traditional batik market or in a batik shop, we get confused to choose a [...] Read more »