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Enjoying the process of making a variety of accessories Keris (dagger) is most appropriate agenda after seeing the diverse collection of Keris and decorating process. You will increasingly get a complete picture of how Keris and accessories are produced. Banyusumurup village is the location where you can enjoy it, a village since the 1950s developed into a center for handicraft accessories Keris. Village Banyusumurup produce Warangka and Pendok (Keris section that serves as a handle). The atmosphere is cool countryside will soon be greeted after you arrived in this region.

Greater curvature of Keris

Although it has been developed as a crafts village, the village atmosphere is still like a village in general, not much like the signboard of the village Kasongan. Most of the craftsmen to produce accessories dagger in the household scale and has yet to develop a special brand of studio accessories keris. Read the rest of this entry →

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Ramayana Ballet is the performing arts are wonderful, amazing and difficult unrivaled. This performance is able to unite various Javanese arts such as dance, drama and music on one stage and one momentum to present the Ramayana story, a legendary epos written by Valmiki in Sanskrit. Ramayana story that brought on this show is similar to that engraved on Prambanan temple. Like a lot of legend, Ramayana story carved on the Hindu temple similar to the story in oral tradition in India.

Ramayana ballet

Roads are long and suspenseful story was summarized in four plays or act, the abduction of Sinta, Anoman mission to Lanka, Ravana’s death or Kumbhakarna, and the founding Sinta. All the stories presented in a series of dance movements presented by the beautiful dancers, accompanied by gamelan music. You are invited to actually dissolve in the story and observe each movement of the dancers to know the story. There’s no spoken dialogue of the dancers, the only speaker was Sinden who describes the story through the songs in the Java language with a distinctive voice. Read the rest of this entry →

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Kotabaru, or used to be called Nieuwe Wijk, was a growing area that began in 1920 as a consequence of Small Loji region. Progress of the sugar industry, plantations and the increasing interest in developing education and health brought the total number of Dutch people who settled in Yogyakarta has been increasing. Kotabaru a residential area is fully equipped alternative, parallel to the Menteng area in Jakarta. Different impression will be obtained once entered the region.

Typical of European buildings in Kotabaru

The design of disordered region follow a radial pattern like the cities in the Netherlands in general, different from other Yogyakarta area were ordered to follow the direction of most wind. Large trees, flowering plants and fruit plants which exist in this area indicates that the Kotabaru designed as a garden city, equipped boulevard and the streets are quite wide. Read the rest of this entry →

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