Jogja: Marta Tilaar salon day spa colombo, a major beauty cosmetics in the country, always consistently provides the best service to its costumers. to satisfy the consumers Marta Tilaar just launched three new products, they are Coffee Lemon Treatment, Chocolate Rose and Stone Message Treatment. Martha Tilaar Salon Day Spa Colombo’s assistant manager, Nur […]
International flights are set to resume to and from the Indonesian ancient cultural city of Yogyakarta as Southeast Asia’s largest economy seeks to boost tourism, an official said Friday.
The head of Yogyakarta’s tourism office, Tazbir, said that flights from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur would be served by Malaysian Airlines and Air Asia, with […]
Regol Jogja magazine has a distinct and colorful way of telling a story about Yogyakarta’s people, their daily lives, cultural heritage, local pastimes and traditional cuisine, said its founder and greatest fan.
Suluh (Tita) Pratitasari is enormously proud of her product and said regol in Javanese means gateway. She said her magazine “helps to open people’s […]
The Chinese-Indonesian community in Yogyakarta celebrated Sunday’s Chinese Lunar New Year in style, holding a Chinese cultural week on Jl. Ketandan, near the southern end of the Malioboro strip.
The 500-meter-long, four-meter-wide road has been decorated with various festive accessories, including the ubiquitous and essential red paper lanterns. At the end of the road a banner […]
Is there any connection between blangkon, the traditional Javanese batik headdress for men, and the dignity of Yogyakarta Palace?
If this question was addressed to blangkon maker Slamet Raharjo, he would probably answer that the king and the other male royal family members would ruin the image of the palace if they wore any blangkon sold […]
Eighteen-year-old Devi Ariyani was delighted as her mother Jaryani, 38, under the supervision of a physiotherapist, helped her fold her legs at the knees, thus enabling the young woman to sit on her own knees again.
“Look! I did it! I did it!” Devi cried out spiritedly while her mother Jaryani looked on, half smiling, as […]
Dozens of students from universities in Yogyakarta have launched the “Love Bahasa Indonesia Movement” to protect the Indonesian language from foreign influence.
The launch of the movement was marked Saturday with students distributing of flowers to motorists in main city areas.
Others pasted stickers on vehicles and buildings.
Henry Kuntz: Tenor Saxophone
In an alluring set of solo and multi-track improvisations inspired by mixed-media presentations of saxophone and puppet theatre, Henry Kuntz re-examines the sound, technique, and musical dimensions of the tenor.
“The diaphanous tenor of Wayang Saxophony Shadow Saxophone took flight like a light butterfly free of its silver cocoon. It happened as I […]
The Gesellchaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) or German Technical Cooperation has sponsored a training session on disaster awareness among primary school communities in Yogyakarta and Central Java.
Part of the post-May 27 earthquake program, the training started earlier this month in 16 sub-districts in both provinces.
“We have planned to hold the trainings in two batches. The […]
Filmmaker Garin Nugroho has turned to ancient Sanskrit legend and traditional Javanese culture to portray the inequality and violence that have plagued Indonesia’s emergence as an independent nation.
Nugroho has previously explored dark episodes in his country’s history — “A Poet” was set in 1965 during the massacre of hundreds of thousands of “communists” and government […]
A group of Asian nations have agreed to tackle the growing problem of climate change and are set to clamp down on vehicle emissions.
Following a meeting of 20 Asian nations meeting in Indonesia last week, the countries have established the Yogyakarta Summary, which is a non-binding document setting out their commitment to improving air quality […]
Some 30 paintings of the work of children all over the world are being displayed at the Yogyakarta Cultural Center here from November 11 to 17, 2006.
The exhibition of international children`s paintings under the theme of “Let Us Awake Together With International Art Children” were opened last weekend by the Director General of Education and […]