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 […]
Seven months after the powerful May 27 earthquake rocked Yogyakarta and many facilities including hotels, Melia Purosani Hotel on Jl. Suryotomo is ready to reopen its restaurant Friday.
“We will hold a cocktail party to mark the relaunching of our Ching San Chinese Restaurant this Friday evening,” Melia’s public relations manager Rahayu Diah Sadmawati said.
The restaurant, […]
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 […]
Commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces, Pehin Major General Dato Hj Awg Halbi Hj Mohd Yusof, said that when the numbers of collected aid from all international countries are counted, Brunei Darussalam’s assistance for the tsunami and earthquake victims is small, but it is very meaningful for Bruneians.
The people of Brunei saw the disasters […]
Thousands of Yogyakartans flocked to polling stations Sunday to directly elect their new mayor and deputy mayor for the first time.
A total of 358,044 citizens cast their votes at 887 polling stations in 14 districts. Two pairs of candidates were running for the 2006-2011 term.
Businessman Widharto and his running mate, former deputy Yogyakarta mayor Syukri […]