Goa Cermai

Goa Cermai

Goa Cerme at first was a meeting place used by Walisongo to spread Islam in Java. The word 'Cerme' comes from the word 'speech', held talks during the meeting discussed a plan to establish in the Great Mosque in Demak, a city north of Central Java.

The average depth of water flow of about 1 m, ends at the village exit gate Ploso, Giritirto, Bake, Gunung Kidul Regency.

In addition to the main cave is another cave in which the smaller was used for the meditation cavernous puppeteer. Goa Ledhek, Badhut cave, and caves People. On Monday or Tuesday wage pengunjng many have come to ask God's blessings with thanksgiving ceremonies. During the holidays, many students and young people visiting this temapat. Along the corridor in a cave there is a stage Cerme which was used for the rendezvous.

To reach the front gate of the cave, one must climb the stairs 759 meters. It's better if visitors contact Interpreter Lock or guardian first cave to get the information or correct information.

These include caves Goa a long and deep. The entrance was in the village Selopamioro, kecamatam Imogiri, Bantul regency, while the exit was in Ploso village, subdistrict Bake, Gunung Kidul district. Total length of cave approximately 1.5 km.

Way to achieve this very good location and distance of about 20 km. The view towards the village of Goa last Cerme very good. In the daytime, when the weather sunny, the city of Yogyakarta looks beautiful and at night could see the lights of the city.

Conditions in the cave without lights (flashlight) / dark and cave floor flooded by ground water, which in the rainy season the water will put (up), but in the dry season the water subsided (down). Can also be found Stalactite and stalagmites are very good, too many bats. In general, foreign tourists who visited the cave Cerme spent between 3 to 5 hours on location.

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Mitoni or tingkeban, Pregnancy

Mitoni or tingkeban, Pregnancy

This ceremony aims to reject the salvation army and beg ceremony Equipment Group nobility: Sajen: robyong cone, cone bare, Sekul asrep-asrepan, chicken, grain oil, five kinds of cereal and snack market. Feast: rice majemukan, seven pairs of rice, pecel chicken, vegetable min, sticky compote, apem, savory rice, ingkung, rice punar, diamond, rujak and dawet, emping sticky rice, flowers and coconut water tabonan. Commoner groups: Sajen: sego do, snack market, a white brother porridge, porridge baro-baro, emping sticky, tumpeng robyong, golong sego, sego telon liwed and flowers. Banquet: tasty sego, sego ambengan, snack market, sticky compote, apem, plantain, sego snacks, seven cone, porridge, cream flowers and incense Tingkeb means to close, thus closing ceremony tingkeban is during pregnancy until the baby is born. The ceremony is held at age seven months pregnant at the time after the evening prayer, and attended by the mother, husband, family, traditional healers and scholars. There are fish food taboos cork / breech, the meat is hot, eels, crabs, and maja.Upacara durian fruit is divided into: 1.Mitoni for expectant mothers who will have a first child with extra spray. 2.Mitoni for the second child and only done so on slematan kendhuri.

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Ketoprak, Jogja Culture Portal

Ketoprak, Jogja Culture Portal

Ketoprak as one of the traditional art of Yogyakarta, had not received sufficient attention from local governments. Festival ketoprak kabupaten / kota and antarmahasiswa had routinely done several years ago, now no more.

Boro-boro is Stimulation funds for groups that still exist, which happens quite the contrary, local authorities (government) the more persistent interesting entertainments tax against artists. Even more paradoxically, when the sale of tickets ketoprak in Yogyakarta Art Festival (FKY) is relatively large, two-thirds of the committee asked to sustain the cost of other art performances labeled "modern".

There are at least three explanations why the local government to be so. First, euphoria and sometimes understanding of regional autonomy makes local governments is very focused on efforts to increase local revenue (PAD) which is translated by petty seserakah be taxed. Recently the news circulated that the Government of the City (City Government) Yogyakarta planned levy taxes on billboards in space, among other forms of commercial banners seminars. Regional Revenue Service officer of Sleman is not willing to lose the spirit that burst of rain on the night of a show that turned out to quiet the crowd.

Would not it should be understood more regional autonomy as the trust and freedom to manage, promote, prosperity, and welfare of the people whole? If so, the concept of development that puts the New Order "as commander economy" needs to be revised. In addition to its proven failure, the spirit of reform is to restore sovereignty to the people, including upholding the values of the local community. That is, restore the people's right to expression as a way to channel the aspirations of each and not to silence or uniform for the purposes of (economic) initiated only by the government.

Second, run the giddy attitude plus lack of budget autonomy to make local government "could not" think of art (especially traditional) and culture in general. Seizure office, ruwetnya manage employee resources, and lack of budget has been drained of their energy.

Third, the stigma that is his art ketoprak grassroots apparently still raging in the minds of many officials. The proof, has never officially or welcoming banquet featuring guest and called ketoprak the art of Yogyakarta. Ketoprak staging events within the palace also still be counted on the fingers of one hand. Compare with puppets and dance performances that in fact is difficult to claim as a typical art Jogja.

In fact, ketoprak has great potential to become a kind of portal (in the world of the Internet) for the culture of Jogja. To see the show, people can immediately understand the cultural treasures of Yogyakarta and Java in general, not only in form wadhag (physically) but also nuance, spirit, and even spirit.

In wadhag ketoprak can mempertunjukan few things, namely: Java dressing, construction and arrangement of space, furniture and interior accessories, transportation systems, armaments and equipment.

Meanwhile, the cultural content in the form of not just physical (non-visible) including language traditions, forms of nonverbal communication, messages from the literature are performed plays, ketoprak as "opera Java", and another object is to study art and Karawitan tembang, as accompanist performances. The latter, scenes of war (mass) can show various traditional war strategy (ngleyang garuda, chopsticks urang, glathik neba). In addition, the fight scenes (one on one) can describe the martial benyaknya universities, in particular martial art, following the existing range of style. Not to mention, a variety of magic spell which is still believed by most of the Java community.

With a variety of potential they have positioned it as a worthy ketoprak gate or window Jogja culture. In all appearances, regional governments could expose many aspects of life of many commodities and promotion of tourism.

Members Saptopo B Dhagelan Ilkodar New Mataram, and UPN Veteran lecturer Fisip Yogyakarta.

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Wayang Kulit, Masterpiece of Java Art Performance

Wayang Kulit, Masterpiece of Java Art Performance

Night in Yogyakarta will feel alive if you miss it by looking at the shadow play. Gamelan rhythms combined with dynamic voice of the sinden will not let you fall in sleep. The story that brought the mastermind will bring you to come in late as one of the characters in the story. You too will soon realize how great of Javanese culture in the past.

Wayang kulit is performance art that have more than half a millennium. Appearance has its own story, related to the entry of Javanese Islam. One member of the Wali Songo created by adopting Wayang Beber is developed in the heyday of Hindu-Buddhist. The adoption was done because the puppet already attached to the Javanese to become the right medium for disseminating propaganda of Islam, while Islam forbids visual art form. As a result, created shadow puppets where people can only see shadows.

Leather puppet played by a man who would be called the greatest public entertainer in the world. How not, during the night, the mastermind behind the actor playing the character of a wayang kulit puppets of buffalo leather with decorated motif decoration chisel handicrafts (leather carving). He had to change the character of the sound, changing intonation, out jokes and even singing. To turn the atmosphere, aided by the mastermind musician who played the gamelan and sinden who sing songs of Java.

The characters in the puppet whole number in the hundreds. The puppets that are not played are placed in the existing banana trunks near the mastermind. When played, the puppets will appear as shadows on the white screen in front of the puppeteer. The image can be created for each puppet show using oil lamps for lighting that helps reflecting the puppets being played.

Each puppet brings the story or play a different. Variety theater is divided into 4 categories, namely standard play, play carangan, theater piece and the play yard. Standard play has a whole story based on the library while the puppet theater carangan only outline only based on the library puppet. Composition does not play based on wayang story but wearing the places according to the library puppet, while the play was entirely written by a freelance.

Wayang stories based on some old books like the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Pustaka Raja Purwa and Purwakanda. Today, there are also books containing play and essay composed by hundreds of years has been appreciated by the public Abhimanyu Kerem, Doraweca, Suryatmaja Maling and so on. Among all the old books used, the Book Purwakanda is the most frequently used by puppeteers from the Sultan Palace. Leather puppet puppeteer begins when the mountains have been issue. An all-night wayang performance Yogyakarta style divided into 3 rounds that have lined 7 (scene) and 7 scenes of war. First round, called pathet Lasem, 3 lined and has 2 scenes that accompanied the war gising-gising pathet Lasem. Pathet Sanga the second half lined and has 2 scenes of war 2, while the Pathet Manura the third round has 2 lined and 3 scenes of war. One of the most anticipated part of many people at each puppet is because of the joke-joke presents typical Java.

Sasono Hinggil located in northern South Square is the place most often hold events all night wayang performances, usually held every second and fourth weeks starting at 21:00 pm. Another place is the Sri Maganti ward located in the Sultan's Palace. Wayang Kulit is staged in the hall for 2 hours starting at 10:00 am every Saturday with a ticket USD 5000.00.

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As a tradition sekaten Kraton Jogjakarta

As a tradition sekaten Kraton Jogjakarta

Jogjakarta, city that was so beautiful, (Special region, city students, Gudeg City, City of history, culture town, etc.) so the term of Jogja. One of the current culture is ongoing Sekatenan (night market) which will end with Grebeg on 26 March 2009. In this tradition, which is located in north plaza Kraton Jogjakarta was a great deal of activity, such as exhibitions pruduk from each district (there are crafts, art, small-medium business, etc.), stage arts, sports tournaments, food traders to traders furniture merauk racing luck, How ya by Djarum Black himself, whether to participate also in merauk profit?

In addition to the ornamental plant enthusiast, there are also many who offer Nursery collection of ornamental plants. If Black Car Community to sell the plants with the cars they could be in the record muri, for a luxury car just to hold plants. There is also a playground of children or adults like boom-boom car, (well maybe he's the same in the Black Car lakuin Community, saturation distraction for struggling with their luxury cars), lightning, the barrel is still a lot of demons and the others. This tradition is certain to be the largest festive entertainment and only once a year. But this tradition is not a thing mengasikan for those middle-class and upwards. Mean bias in this tradition to dedicate for a native who upholds jogja regional cultural values.

Therefore, every time this tradition that says a lot going on this ajangnya village people out of sarangya, for some reason a mini mala market tradition synonymous with the villagers. But this Sekaten tetep attractive for tourists because it is one of the many local cultures jogja. And would be better if the loading boom in Black In News. / Prince

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Malioboro

Malioboro Street

Jalan Malioboro (Malioboro Street) is a major shopping street in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; the name is also used more generally for the neighborhood around the street. It runs north from the Yogyakarta kraton (palace) towards the roads that lead to either Surakarta to the east, or Magelang to the north, as well as Mount Merapi. This is in itself is significant to many of the local population, the north south orientation between the palace and the volcano being of importance.

The street is the centre of Yogyakarta's largest tourist district; many hotels and restaurants are located nearby. Sidewalks on both sides of the street are crowded with small stalls selling a variety of goods. In the evening several open-air streetside restaurants, called lesehan, operate along the street.

Less obvious to the tourist, but more for the local population, side streets, lanes and structures that lead on to Malioboro are as important as the street itself.

The street was for many years two-way, but by the 1980s had become one way only, from the railway line (where it starts) to the south - to Beringharjo markets, where it ends. The largest, oldest Dutch era hotel, Hotel Garuda, is located on the street's northern end, on the eastern side adjacent to the railway line. It has the former Dutch era Prime Minister's complex, the kepatihan, on the eastern side.

For many years in the 1980s and later, a cigarette advertisement was placed on the first building south of the railway line - or effectively the last building on Malioboro, which advertised Marlboro cigarettes, no doubt appealing to locals and foreigners who would see a pun with name of the street with a foreign product being advertised.

It does not reach the walls or grounds of the Yogyakarta palace, as Malioboro ceases in name adjacent to the very large market Beringharjo (on the eastern side as well). From this point the street changes name and has on the western side the former Governors residence, and on the eastern side the old Dutch Fort Vredenburg.

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Gamelan, Orkestra from Java

Gamelan, Orkestra from Java

Gamelan is surely not a foreign music. It has been popular in most continents and has created new music of jazz-gamelan, gave birth to the institution as a learning space and the expression of gamelan music, to produce famous gamelan musicians. Gamelan music instrument can now be enjoyed in many parts of the world, but Yogyakarta is the most appropriate place to enjoy the gamelan it since you can enjoy the original version.

Gamelan developing in Yogyakarta is Javanese gamelan, a different form of gamelan Balinese gamelan or Sundanese gamelan. Javanese gamelan has a softer tone and slow, unlike dynamic Balinese gamelan and Sundanese gamelan lilting flute and voice dominated. The difference is reasonable, since Java has its own view of life that is expressed in the rhythm of gamelan music.

Javanese worldview expressed in gamelan music is the harmony of physical and spiritual, harmony in talking and acting so as not to create an expression that explosive and create tolerance. Being real in his music is the pull string fiddle that is, a balanced blend of sound kenong, saron drums and xylophone and a gong sounds on every cover of rhythm.

There is no definite history of gamelan. Development of gamelan music is expected since the emergence of wide band, fiddle, tap on the mouth, the friction on the cord or thin bamboo until the introduction of metal musical instruments. Further development after named gamelan, the music was used to accompany wayang performance, and dance. Later it became independent music itself and equipped with the voice of the sinden.

A set of gamelan consists of several instruments, including a set of similar musical instrument drum called drums, fiddle and zither, xylophone, gongs and bamboo flutes. The main components that make up musical instruments in the gamelan is bamboo, metal, and wood. Each instrument has its own function in gamelan music show, for example, closing a gong played music and gave long after the previous balance was decorated by the rhythm of the music gending.

List Of Instrumen :

1. Demung
2. Gong
3. Kendang
4. Rebab
5. Saron
6. Fiddle and Zither
7. Slenthem
8. Flute
   

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