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International flights to resume to Indonesia’s Yogyakarta

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 […]

January 6th, 2008 - Posted in Art and Culture, Indonesia News, Travel and Shoping, Yogyakarta

Melia to reopen hotel restaurant

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, […]

January 12th, 2007 - Posted in Event and Ceremony, Travel and Shoping, Yogyakarta

Double-track railway launched

State railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia started operating its newly built double-track railway from Yogyakarta to Surakarta (Solo) in Central Java on Tuesday, in a bid to help speed up railway transportation between the two cities.
Mochtadi, a spokesman from the company’s Yogyakarta office, said that the operation of the new facility would substantially reduce […]

January 12th, 2007 - Posted in Travel and Shoping, Yogyakarta