The School of Architecture at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) is staging a furniture design competition.
Organized in cooperation with the forestry ministry and eWorld, the competition is open to individuals or teams of three people.
There are two categories in the competition: Garden and Indoor Furniture. Scoring will be based on modernity, creativity and innovation of the […]
One of the most striking things about the reconstruction and rehabilitation from the devastating earthquake that hit Yogyakarta and its surroundings last May 27 is the victims’ spirit of survival.
With or without assistance from the government or other institutions, residents labored to rebuild their damaged houses and repair their damaged livelihoods in an atmosphere of […]
Small and medium enterprises in Yogyakarta, the mainstays of the province’s economy, have started to show signs of recovery after last year’s earthquake.
The recovery of SMEs in Bantul regency, the area worst affected, had now reached 60 percent.
Bantul regency received donations amounting to around Rp 4 billion (US$45,770) to assist with SME recovery from the […]
A painting measuring 9.88 meters by 2.8 meters depicting the Borobudur Temple World Heritage Site was finished Wednesday evening by a single artist in just less than two hours at the temple’s compound (see photo).
Anthony David Lee, 43, a Manado-born artist who once lived in Singapore and has now moved to Bali, created the painting […]
With families still living in emergency tents and children going to school in makeshift bamboo classrooms, AsiaNews has gone back to see how people are faring a year after a devastating earthquake struck Yogyakarta (Bantul Regency). What is most noticeable now is that people are left just with hope to get back to normal and […]
In the early morning of May 27, 2006, an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck the province of Yogyakarta in central Java. The earthquake killed more than 6,500 people, seriously injured 45,000, and left an astounding 1.8 million Indonesian citizens homeless.
In the hours and days following the earthquake, the most pressing need was […]
A year ago today, the historic heartland of Java––Yogyakarta––was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. More than 6,000 people lost their lives and another 30,000 were injured in this densely populated part of Indonesia. The whole nation, just recovering from the onslaught of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, was again in tears. The international […]