Jogja City

The death toll from the massive earthquake that rocked Yogyakarta of Java has risen to at least 4285, an official at the social affairs ministry said today.
Of the total, 2386 people were killed in hard-hit Bantul district in Yogyakarta province, said Kinta, an official at the social affairs ministry’s disaster relief centre.
Klaten district in Central […]

“If the oil price stubbornly stays at $100 a barrel, our budget deficit will increase to 75.9 trillion rupiah ($8.07 billion) - JAKARTA, Nov 27 - Indonesia’s economic growth is likely to fall short of the government’s 6.8 percent target for next year and the budget deficit may widen if oil prices hit $100 a […]

This a traditional art performing javanese and popular songs accompanied by Kenthongan (such the wooden signal drum). Thek-thek came from the local tradition ‘ronda’ when a group of men walking around their village on their nihgt watch patrol. They beat Kenthongan in the rhythm of ‘thek-thek-thek’ stimultanously […]

Every day since the devastating earthquake last Saturday, local media in Yogyakarta have been vying to make their layouts or programs as attractive as possible to entice consumers.
Local newspapers put the most spectacular pictures of displaced people or quake damage on their front pages. Radio stations air non-stop hotlines to allow their listeners to express […]

A water crisis in Yogyakarta’s Gunungkidul regency has been a blessing in disguise for a group of people who run a water business.
The Water Users Group sells clean water from a well in Wonosari, Gunungkidul. Each day, more than a dozen 5,000-liter water trucks line up to get the water that is then resold at […]

The Directorate General of Post and Telecommunications is requiring network access providers (NAPs) to have international bandwidth internet networks with a minimum capacity of 45 megabytes per second (Mbps), a spokesman said
“The obligation to have the minimum bandwidth networks is designed to increase NAPs` bargaining position towards overseas internet networks,” Gatot S Dewa Brata, the […]

The Jakarta Post . Widya, a tourist from Malang, East Java, found it hard to believe the traditional vessel inside the ship museum in the Borobudur Temple compound had sailed from Bali to Accra, the capital city of Ghana in Africa.
The vessel measuring 18.29 meters long, 4.25 meters wide and 2.25 meters high is positioned […]

Awas Benjut

Originally uploaded by Indrani Soemardjan.

Translation: You’re gonna get a bump on your head if you’re speeding

Situated on the eastern outskirts of the city, it has an interesting permanent exhibition of batiks in classic and modern designs. The process of batik can also be seen here, both the hand drawn and hand stamped.

The facades of the elegantly constructed Kali Code (cho’deh) kampong belies the harsh realities of its residents.
Located along the Code River in Yogyakarta, the area was transformed in 1983 from a dump site into a settlement through the work of populist Indonesian architect and Catholic priest, the late Yusuf Bilyarta Mangunwijaya, who died in 1999.
The […]