A line of Hindu priests carries offerings from the Prambanan temple as part of a religious ceremony Wednesday preparing for Hindu Saka New Year celebration in Yogyakarta, central Java, Indonesia. They will commemorate the New Year by observing “Nyepi” in which they stay home and meditate in silence and darkness for the entire day.
For the second consecutive year, Jakarta’s Q! Gay & Lesbian Film Festival visited Yogyakarta this past week to screen an array of local and international films on the subject of sexual diversity.
Beginning March 12 and closing March 19, this year’s Yogyakarta section of the festival proved to be more lavish and successful than last year’s.
Jl. Ketandan Wetan looked very merry, with decorative Chinese-style ornaments, red decorative lamps of various sizes and models with golden accessories attached to them, golden Chinese letters attached to red pieces of cloth, and other ornaments of all types adorning the street and the nearby buildings.
Although it was only a segment of street some 500 […]
Scientists are closely monitoring a volcano on Indonesia’s densely-populated island of Java after registering increased activity over the weekend, officials said.
Vulcanologists have already warned people living in the shadow of the 2,911-meter (9,606-foot) Mount Merapi to prepare for a possible evacuation in the event of an eruption.
The volcano registered more than 30 tremors on Sunday […]
The Health Nutrition Program of Gadjah Mada University (UGM) will organize a seminar titled, Cash aid: Is it useful for the poor, on March 23 at its campus in Yogyakarta.
Coordinating Minister for Public Welfare Aburizal Bakrie is slated to give the keynote speech at the seminar, which will also feature Health Minister Siti Fadilah […]
Although she is 60 years old, Dzuriah, a grandmother with seven children, still looks fit.
There are no wrinkles on her face. Someone who has just met her might think that Dzuriah, a mother of six from Imogiri, Bantul, Yogyakarta, was perhaps 10 years younger.
Dzuriah was introduced to batik at the age of eight. […]
The signboards of hotels, travel agents and restaurants still advertise their wares on this tourist street, but the effect is more ghost town than anything else. The Prawirotaman area in Yogyakarta has suffered heavily from the collapse of the Indonesian tourist industry, with fewer and fewer tourists seen wandering through the kampong, and hotel occupancy […]
The School of Cultural Sciences at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month.
A science lecture by noted scholar and writer C. Soebakdi Soemanto, or Bakdi Soemanto as he is more popularly known, marked the beginning of the celebration program earlier this month.
Other events include a two-day international symposium on humanism and […]
Godot Sutejo, 53, a well-known Yogyakarta artist, has a rather unusual hobby — he collects old radios.
At present he has 60 of them, none of which have been on the market in a long time. To ensure that the radios can be operated, they have been adjusted to run on 220 volts of electricity, and […]
Yogyakarta province and Bantul regency on Wednesday introduced a new antipoverty program under which goats will be loaned to poor families.
During a ceremony to mark the start of the program, Yogyakarta Governor Hamengkubuwono X presented goats to 200 of the 1,000 families initially targeted by the campaign.
The first phase of the campaign is being funded […]
Yogyakarta is expected to host an international puppet festival on July 23-26, The Yogyakarta International of Puppet will be held jointly by the Windita Jawa Foundation, the Yogyakarta Cultural Office and the Yogyakarta Kingdom.
May kinds of puppet would be displayed in the festival to show that the puppets were not only found in Indonesian but […]
French supermarket giant Carrefour S.A. opened an outlet in Yogyakarta over the weekend, bringing the company’s total stores in the country to 21, the Ekonomi Neraca daily reported Tuesday.
The new supermarket will sell around 40,000 items of consumer goods, the daily quoted the new outlet’s general manager Novalian as saying.
Carrefour opened its first store in […]