Lawang Sewu, Semarang

Lawang Sewu 1920

     Lawang Sewu (thousand doors) is a building in Semarang, Central Java, which is the office of the Nederlands-Indische Maatschappij Spoorweg or NIS. Built in 1904 and completed in 1907. Located on the Circle of Tugu Muda, in the past called Wilhelminaplein. The citizen called Lawang Sewu because the built have a lot of doors although the number of doors isn't thousand. The built have big door and window at all part.

     The luxury ancient built have three floors and one underground,at the past the built used for train main office called PT. Kereta Api Indonesia and ever used for military main office. During the struggle the building has its own history that is when the last event called Pertempuran 5 Hari Semarang against Kempetai and Kudobutai from Japan. Because of value historic of  Lawang sewu is great so the government include as one of ancient buildings must be protected.

Lawang Sewu

     Little History in Lawang sewu, in the Netherlands in Indonesia, the building use for the office but when the Japanese come in Indonesia the building change the function example from the storage change to torture room at the japanese at the 3rd floor. When the Japanese at Lawang Sewu that is the cruel time because much people died there

Several room and prison for torture :

1. Prison Stands

    The custody (indonesian) entry in the room size 1x1 meter and fill with 6 people. The custody cant sit because the room is not enough if they can sit there will be sink because the prison that fill with water until adult knee. The people there until died

2. Prison Squat

    The custody entry in the room tall 1 m and width 1,5 m, the Prison fill 7-8 people and they are there until died

3. Decapitation

    The custody is stubborn,they will decapitation in basin, after he die the body will be throw in the river behind the building

That is the cruel when wartime,now the building become one of resort in Semarang and you must visiting it

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Parangtritis Beach, Jogjakarta

Parangtritis

     Parangtritis is a beach lies at least 25 kilometers Southern from Jogjakarta and side of Indian Ocean. The history of the name Parangtritis is so interested to known, along time ago there are a fugitve of Majapahit Kingdom,his name Dipokusumo, at the beach he perform mystical culture. At the moment he look some of water fall (Traditional language : tumaritis) through rock crevice (Traditional language : Parang).

Parangtritis

     

     Parangtritis is one of famous resort in Jogjakarta, Parangtritis have a unique scenery which other beach dont have it, example Parangtritis have big waves and there are dunes around the beach. At parangtritis you can rent ATV, horse-drawn carriage and horse if you want enjoy the beach with other situation. Aeromodeling is there are too in Parangtritis if you hobby with this sport. 

Facility at Parangtritis is complete, there are stall, restaurant and hotel if you want stay at parangtritis in several days. entry ticket is cheap

@ person : Rp.3000

@ vehicle : Rp 2000-3000

@ rent horse-drawn carriage : Rp 20.000

@ ATV : Rp 50000 - 100.000

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Malioboro Street

Malioboro

     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 lies north-south axis in the line between Yogyakarta Kraton and Mount Merapi. This is in itself is significant to many of local population, the north south orientation between the palace and the vulcano being of importance.

    The street is the centre of Yogyakarta's largest tourist district surrounded with many hotels and restaurants 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 Angkringan, 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.

     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 to Jalan Ahmad Yani (Ahmad Yani Street) and has the former Governors residence on the western side, and the old Dutch Fort Vredenubrg on the eastern side.

Malioboro

     Ankringan in Malioboro very special because angkringan start in Yogyakarta. Angkringan will open at the night when several large stores closed. there many menu we can choose ant the night day, dont worry about the food price in angkringan Malioboro, almost all food is cheap. i can give you guarantee if you get expensive food price in angkringan Malioboro.When you dinner at Angkringan Malioboro you will meeting several singing beggar and they will will give you some songs. you can enjoy dinner while you can hear several songs at the night day.

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Raja Ampat Islands in Papua, Indonesia)

Raja Ampat

     Raja Ampat Islands is a series of four adjacent islands located in the western part of the Bird's Head (Vogelkoop) Papua Island. Administratively, it is under the cluster of Raja Ampat, West Papua Province. The islands are now a destination for divers who are interested in the beauty of the underwater scenery. The four islands that belong to the four named after its largest island, which Waigeo Island, Misool Island, Salawati Island, and Batanta Island.

Raja Ampat

     Raja Ampat Islands is a great potential to be used as a tourist attraction, especially the dive. Raja Ampat Islands waters according to various sources, is one of the 10 best waters for diving sites around the world. In fact, it may also be recognized as number one for the completeness of underwater flora and fauna at this time.

Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat

     Dr. John Veron, coral experienced experts from Australia, for example, in a site he revealed, the Raja Ampat Islands located at the westernmost tip of New Guinea, about 50 miles northwest of Sorong, has the best reef areas in Indonesia. Approximately 450 species of coral had been identified during the two weeks of research in that area.

     A team of experts from Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Institute of Oceanography (LON) Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) have done a quick assessment in 2001 and 2002. As a result, they noted in these waters there are more than 540 hard coral species (75% of the total species in the world), more than 1,000 types of reef fish, 700 species of mollusks, and the highest record for gonodactyloid stomatopod crustaceans. This makes 75% of the world's coral species in Raja Ampat. Nowhere the same area has a number of coral species as much as this.

Diving photograph

 

Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat

 

Raja Ampat

 

Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat

Surface photograph

Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat

    Visiting these islands is not too difficult although it takes time and big enough expense. We can use the airline's flights from Jakarta to Sorong via Manado for 6 hour flight. From Sorong-town big enough and quite complete facilities for exploring the Raja Ampat-there are two choices, take a boat tour with pinisi or staying in the resort of Papua Diving. Although most of the tourists who come to Raja Ampat is currently divers, actual location is interesting also for non-divers as tourists also have white sandy beaches are very beautiful, clusters of karst islands nan fascinating and unique endemic flora and fauna like Cendrawasih red, Cendrawasih Wilson, maleo Waigeo, various parrots and parrot, possum Waigeo, as well as various types of orchids.

Phinisi Ship at Raja Ampat

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Prambanan Temple (Hindu Temple In Indonesia)

Prambanan Temple

Introduce

Prambanan Temple (Citizen Local say Candi Prambanan) or Roro Jonggrang Temple is a 9th century Hindu temple in Central Java, Indonesia. Dedicated to Trimurti (three Gods In Hindu), The expression of God as a creator (Brahma), The Sustainer (Wisnu) and The Destroyer (Shiva). The temple is located approximately 18 km (11 mil) east of the city of Yogyakarta, on boundary between Central Java and Yogyakarta Province. The Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site is the largest Hindu Temple in Indonesia and one of the largest in Southeast Asia .

History

Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple of ancient Java, and the construction of this royal temple was probably started by Rakai Pikatan as the Hindu Sanjaya Dynasty's answer to the Buddhist Sailendra Dynasty's Borobudur and Sewu temples nearby. Historians suggest that the construction of Prambanan probably was meant to mark the return of the Hindu Sanjaya Dynasty to power in Central Java after almost a century of Buddhist Sailendra Dynasty domination.

The present name Prambanan was derived from the name of Prambanan village where the temple stood, this name probably being the corrupted Javanese pronunciation of Para Brahman (The Supreme Brahmana).

Prambanan Temple

Rediscovery

The Javanese locals in the surrounding villages were aware of the temple's existence already before rediscovery. However, they didn't know about its historical background: which kingdoms ruled or which king commissioned the construction of the monuments. As a result, the locals developed tales and legends trying to explain the origin of temples, infused with myths of giants, a cursed princess, and thus gave Prambanan and Sewu a wondorous origin said to be created by multitude of demons under the order of Bandung Bondowoso, according to Loro Jonggrang Legend.

The temple officially caught the international attention in early 19th century. In 1811 during Britain’s short-lived rule of the Dutch East Indies , Colin Mackenzie, a surveyor in the service of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, came upon the temples by chance. Although Sir Thomas subsequently commissioned a full survey of the ruins, they remained neglected for decades, with Dutch residents carting off sculptures as garden ornaments and native villagers using the foundation stones for construction material.

Half-hearted excavations by archaeologists in the 1880s merely facilitated looting. Reconstruction of the compound began in 1918, and proper restoration only in 1930. Efforts at restoration continue to this day. The reconstruction of the main Shiva temple was completed around 1953 and inaugurated by Sukarno. Since much of the original stonework has been stolen and reused at remote construction sites, restoration was hampered considerably. Shrines were only rebuilt if at least 75% of their original masonry was available. Most of the smaller shrines are therefore now only visible in their foundations, with no plans for their reconstruction existing.

Prambanan Temple 1895

Prambanan Temple 2012

Cotemporary Events

In the early 1990s the government removed the market that had sprung up near the temple and transformed the surrounding villages and rice paddies into an archaeological park. The park covers a large area, from Yogyakarta-Solo main road in the south, encompassing the whole Prambanan complex, the ruins of Lumbung and Bubrah temples, and as far as the Sewu temple compound in the north. In 1992 the Indonesian government created a State-owned Limited Liability Enterprise (PERSERO) of PT Taman Wisata Candi Borobudur, Prambanan, dan Ratu Boko. This enterprise is the authority for the park management of Borobudur Prambanan Ratu Boko and the surrounding region. Prambanan is one of the most visited tourist attraction in Indonesia.

The open-air and indoor stages on the west side of the temple right across the Opak river, were built to stage the Ramayana ballet. This traditional Javanese Dense is the centuries old dance of the Javanese court, performed every full moon night in the Prambanan temple since the 1960s. Since then, Prambanan has become one of the major archaeological and cultural tourism attractions in Indonesia.

After the reconstruction of the main temples in 1990s, Prambanan once again reclaim its status as an important religious center for Hindu rituals and ceremonies in Java. The religious significance revival of Prambanan was due to Balinese and Javanese Hindu communities in Yogyakarta and Central Java that annually perform their sacred ceremonies in Prambanan, such as Galungan, Tawur Kesanga and nyepi.

The temple was damaged during the May 2006 Java Earthquake. Early photos suggested that although the complex was structurally intact, the damage was significant. Large pieces of debris, including carvings, were scattered over the ground. The temple was closed to visitors until the damage could be fully assessed. Eventually, the head of Yogyakarta Archaeological Conservation Agency stated that it would take months to identify the precise extent of the damage. However, some weeks later in 2006 the site was re-opened for visitors. In 2008, 856,029 Indonesian visitors and 114,951 foreign visitors has visited Prambanan. In 6 January 2009 the reconstruction of Nandi temple finished. As of 2009, the interior of most of the temples remains off-limits for safety reasons.

Theatrical performance at Prambanan Temple

Traditional Dance at Prambanan Temple

Prambanan Temple at Night

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Borobudur Temple in Indonesia

Borobudur Temple

Borobudur is a 9th century Mahayana Buddhist moment in Magelang, central java, Indonesia. The Temple consist of six square platforms by topped three circular platforms, decorated by 2,672 relief panels and 504 buddha statues. A main dome at the center of the top temple and there are 72 buddha statues seated around inside perforated stupa.

Borobudur Temple

Evidence suggest Borobudur was constructed in the 9th century and abandoned following decline Buddhist and Hindu Kingdom in the Java and then java conversion to Islam. Until now Islam still the biggest religion in Indonesia. Borobudur has since been preserved through several restoration and now Borobudur with the government of Indonesia has listed in UNESCO as World heritage site. Borobudur is still used for pilgrimage once a year for Buddhist In Indonesia was the name is Celebrate Waesak.

Borobudur Temple

Borobudur Temple

Borobudur Temple

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My name is Nugroho, I live at Semarang (Indonesia), I’m sorry if my English bad. I’m still learning English and I hope you can understand what I write. I will be happy if there are one of you can give me advice about my language.

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Bali is one province in Indonesia, Bali is located between the island of Java and the island of Lombok. Bali have many vacation spots and much tourists from foreign country come over there every year.

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10 benefit of drinking tea

There are lots of reasons why I enjoy a hot cup of tea: I love the aroma of various flavors of tea; holding onto a hot tea mug warms my hands on a cold winter morning; sipping tea in front of the fireplace is a great way to relax. And those are just the feel-good reasons. If you're not drinking tea yet, read up on these 10 ways tea does your body good and then see if you're ready to change your Starbucks order!
1. Tea contains antioxidants. Like the Rust-Oleum paint that keeps your outdoor furniture from rusting, tea's antioxidants protect your body from the ravages of aging and the effects of pollution.

2. Tea has less caffeine than coffee. Coffee usually has two to three times the caffeine of tea (unless you're a fan of Morning Thunder, which combines caffeine with mate, an herb that acts like caffeine in our body). An eight-ounce cup of coffee contains around 135 mg caffeine; tea contains only 30 to 40 mg per cup. If drinking coffee gives you the jitters, causes indigestion or headaches or interferes with sleep --switch to tea.

3. Tea may reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke. Unwanted blood clots formed from cholesterol and blood platelets cause heart attack and stroke. Drinking tea may help keep your arteries smooth and clog-free, the same way a drain keeps your bathroom pipes clear. A 5.6-year study from the Netherlands found a 70 percent lower risk of fatal heart attack in people who drank at least two to three cups of black tea daily compared to non-tea drinkers.

4. Tea protects your bones. It's not just the milk added to tea that builds strong bones. One study that compared tea drinkers with non-drinkers, found that people who drank tea for 10 or more years had the strongest bones, even after adjusting for age, body weight, exercise, smoking and other risk factors. The authors suggest that this may be the work of tea's many beneficial phytochemicals.

5. Tea gives you a sweet smile. One look at the grimy grin of Austin Powers and you may not think drinking tea is good for your teeth, but think again. It's the sugar added to it that's likely to blame for England's bad dental record. Tea itself actually contains fluoride and tannins that may keep plaque at bay. So add unsweetened tea drinking to your daily dental routine of brushing and flossing for healthier teeth and gums.

6. Tea bolsters your immune defenses. Drinking tea may help your body's immune system fight off infection. When 21 volunteers drank either five cups of tea or coffee each day for four weeks, researchers saw higher immune system activity in the blood of the tea drinkers.

7. Tea protects against cancer. Thank the polyphenols, the antioxidants found in tea, once again for their cancer-fighting effects. While the overall research is inconclusive, there are enough studies that show the potential protective effects of drinking tea to make adding tea to your list of daily beverages.

8. Tea helps keep you hydrated. Caffeinated beverages, including tea, used to be on the list of beverages thatdidn't contribute to our daily fluid needs. Since caffeine is a diuretic and makes us pee more, the thought was that caffeinated beverages couldn't contribute to our overall fluid requirement. However, recent research has shown that the caffeine really doesn't matter -- tea and other caffeinated beverages definitely contribute to our fluid needs. The only time the caffeine becomes a problem as far as fluid is concerned is when you drink more than five or six cups of a caffeinated beverage at one time.

9. Tea is calorie-free. Tea doesn't have any calories, unless you add sweetener or milk. Consuming even 250 fewer calories per day can result in losing one pound per week. If you're looking for a satisfying, calorie-free beverage, tea is a top choice.

10. Tea increases your metabolism. Lots of people complain about a slow metabolic rate and their inability to lose weight. Green tea has been shown to actually increase metabolic rate so that you can burn 70 to 80 additional calories by drinking just five cups of green tea per day. Over a year's time you could lose eight pounds just by drinking green tea. Of course, taking a 15-minute walk every day will also burn calories.

11 Benefit of Drinking Water

1. Lose weight: Drinking water helps you lose weight because it flushes down the by-products of fat breakdown. Drinking water reduces hunger, it’s an effective appetite suppressant so you’ll eat less. Plus, water has zero calories. Here are the further details on how to achieve fat loss by drinking water.
2. Natural Remedy for Headache: Helps to relieve headache and back pains due to dehydration. Although many reasons contribute to headache, dehydration is the common one.
3. Look Younger with Healthier Skin: You’ll look younger when your skin is properly hydrated. Water helps to replenish skin tissues, moisturizes skin and increases skin elasticity.
4. Better Productivity at Work: Your brain is mostly made up of water, thus drinking water helps you think better, be more alert and more concentrated.
5. Better Exercise: Drinking water regulates your body temperature. That means you’ll feel more energetic when doing exercises. Water also helps to fuel your muscle.
6. Helps in Digestion and Constipation: Drinking water raises your metabolism because it helps in digestion. Fiber and water goes hand in hand so that you can have your daily bowel movement.
7. Less Cramps and Sprains: Proper hydration helps keep your joints and muscles lubricated, so you’ll less likely get cramps and sprains.
8. Less Likely to Get Sick and Feel Healthy:Drinking plenty of water helps fight against flu and other ailments like kidney stones and heart attack. Water adds with lemon is used for ailments like respiratory disease, intestinal problems, rheumatism and arthritis etc. In another words one of the benefits of drinking water is that it can improve your immune system.Follow this link for further information on how lemon water can improve your health.
9. Relieves Fatigue: Water is used by the body to help flush out toxins and waste products from the body. If your body lacks water, your heart, for instance, needs to work harder to pump out the oxygenated blood to all cells, so are the rest of the vital organs, your organs will be exhausted and so will you.
10. Good Mood: Your body feels very good and that’s why you feel happy.
11. Reduce the Risk of Cancer: Related to the digestive system, some studies show that drinking a healthy amount of water may reduce the risks of bladder cancer and colon cancer. Water dilutes the concentration of cancer-causing agents in the urine and shortens the time in which they are in contact with bladder lining.