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Kasongan Village, A Line of Sculptures

Art galleries lines up in the street, some tourists enter in and out of the galleries, They seem look around or even buy something unique. Different dimension of ceramic are displayed orderly in the gallery, for example ...

Wukirsari Village, A Batik Journey

Batik is an old technique to paint a cloth with hot liquid wax, then dying it into coloring water. For hundreds years ago, people in Indonesia had already known it, every place has its own styles, textures and ...

Apem, Nyadran and Padusan, Purify Hearts on Ramadhan

Before Ramadhan, Moslem in Jogjakarta holds 3 unique traditions to welcome the fasting month. First, make a cake from sticky rice. It is simple, but needs painstaking, perhaps 2-3 hours to make sweet sticky rice ready ...

Ramayana Dance, A Graceful Love

If you go to Candi Prambanan, there's a love story which is shaped on its wall. It's Ramayana love story. The story came from India thousands years ago. The story was began on a contest of Prabu Janaka, who looking for ...

Gamelan, A Symbol of High Culture

Gamelan comes from the word gembelan, means played by striking on it. To get the harmoniously, gamelan must be blended with another instruments, such as bonang, kendang, saron, peking, gong, gender, slenthem, ketuk, ...

Wayang, Local Art Javanese Proud of

''Semar Ngejawantah!!'', the sound of Dalang was spoke loudly at the wayang performance. Semar is the one part of Punakawan (the clown servant figures in wayang kulit).

Wayang performance has been entrenched in ...

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