Indonesian Travellers

Kabut Candi Borobudur

2010-05-28T05:30:00.000-07:00

TANAH masih basah bekas siraman hujan petang kemarin. Lagkah-langkah kaki terus menapaki jalan setapak menanjak menembus pagi buta yang dingin. Penerangan satu-satunya yang ada hanya titik lampu senter dari dua orang warga dusun yang memandu empat orang pendatang menuju kawasan puncak puntuk atau bukit Situmbu.

Sejak pukul 4.30 WIB mereka bergerak dari perkampungan di Dusun Kurahan, Desa Karang Rejo, Kecamatan Borobudur, Magelang, untuk membelah hutan yang ditumbuhi pepohonan jati dan sengon. Berselang 20 menit mereka tiba di kawasan puncak yang lapang, sebuah titik bagi mereka untuk memulai berburu foto kabut menyelimuti Candi Borobudur.

Ketika fajar perlahan muncul di antara lereng Gunung Merapi dan Merbabu, saat itulah Candi Borobudur seperti menyembulkan stupa induk yang merupakan puncak candi di tengah semaian kabut tebal. Saat itu juga dengan perlahan arsitektur candi abad ke VIII tersebut terasa memancarkan keajaiban, mistis, dan sunyi.

Kekuatan itu semakin dalam, karena kabut menyelimuti sekelompok orang di bawahnya yang amat takzim kepada para bhikku dan umat yang bersiap menanti tibanya detik-detik Tri Suci Waisak 2010 besok paginya di pelataran candi.

Perburuan belum berhasil. Mereka, para fotografer harus sabar menunggu kabut berarak, berharap kabut kian menipis sehingga puluhan stupa menampakan keutuhannya sebagai bagian candi yang siluet.

Walaupun langit tampak cerah dan masih terlihat sisa bintang, kabut tidak serta merta cepat menipis. Cuaca sulit ditebak oleh mereka, karena memang petang kemarin kawasan setempat diguyur hujan.

Perhitungan

Nuryanto, 30 tahun, salah seorang pemandu mengatakan, butuh perhitungan yang tepat saat memotret Candi Borobudur diselimuti kabut tipis di puntuk Situmbu. Biasa menurutnya sepanjang Juni hingga Agustus adalah waktu yang bagus untuk memotret.

"Di luar bulan tersebut biasanya selalu hujan dan candi tidak terlihat sama sekali dari sini (puncak) karena dipastikan sangat lama tertutup kabut tebal, kalaupun cerah, posisi matahari kurang tepat sehingga kurang bagus," terangnya.

Bahkan, menurutnya beberapa wisatawan maupun fotografer harus berkali-kali ke puncak bukit tersebut untuk mendapatkan momen buruannya. Seperti halnya Heru Sri Kumoro, fotografer Kompas di Solo, setelah yang kedua kali ke sana baru dia bisa mendapatkan lanskap candi.

Selama 2010 ini tercatat ratusan orang telah mendaki kawasan. Pada bulan tertentu misalnya bulan Agustus para wisatawan mancanegara ramai berkunjung. "Tapi sering juga tidak ada wisatawan satupun dalam hari dan bulan tertentu karena musim hujan dan cuaca dirasa tidak mendukung," terang Riyakub, pemandu lainnya.

"Jika langit bagus, paling lambat pukul lima kita sudah harus mendaki, biar kita tidak kehilangan pemandangan," tambahnya.

Sejak dua tahun lalu, puncak bukit tersebut telah dikelola sebagai salah satu tujuan wisata panorama matahari terbit serta kabut candi. Dusun Kurahan ditempuh sekitar 20 menit perjalanan kendaraan bermotor dari Candi Borobudur. Di pos awal pendakian, wisatawan dapat memarkir kendaraannya dan di pos itu juga biasa sudah menunggu para pemandu dari pemuda dusun setempat.

Koperasi desa menarik uang sebesar Rp 15.000 per pengunjung untuk pemasukan kas desa. Itu sudah termasuk jasa memandu treking menuju puncak yang ditempuh selama 15-20 menit. Harga tersebut tentu sangat tidak memberatkan dibanding kepuasan meresapi keindahan sekaligus daya mistis Candi Borobudur.

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2009-08-22T07:27:00.000-07:00

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South Sea of West Java

2009-07-20T01:33:00.000-07:00

This beach name's CICALOBAK.In sundanesse call this because the sea water make a hole in the big stone.
We can reach this are from cianjur or bandung or garut.This trip will direct to Pangandaran beach and will direct trip to east java at banyuwangi city.

More information at this new trip :

Hotels : available at bandung,RancaBuaya,Garut,Pamengpeuk,Pangandaran
Restaurant : available at all the way trip
Beaches for swimming only at pangandaran Beach

North west island- Indonesia

2009-06-04T01:17:00.000-07:00

KOMPAS/AHMAD ARIF

Suasana pantai di kawasan wisata Senggigi, Batu Layar, Lombok Barat, Nusa Tenggara Barat.

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Selain Bali sejumlah destinasi wisata di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) sudah lama menjadi tujuan para wisatawan, baik wisatawan nusantara maupun mancanegara. Biasanya, mereka yang mengunjungi Bali tak lupa melewatkan beberapa hari ke Nusa Tenggara Barat, terutama mengunjungi tiga gili yang berdekatan dengan Pantai Senggigi yaitu Gili Trawangan, Meno, dan Air.

Tapi, tentu saja NTB tidak hanya Senggigi dan gili-gilinya. Ada sepuluh tempat menarik yang pantang dilewatkan jika Anda mengunjungi provinsi itu. Pemerintah daerah setempat berkomitmen mengembangkan 10 kawasan wisata ini.

Berikut 10 kawasan yang bisa menjadi pilihan liburan Anda ke NTB.

1. Mataram Metro. Kawasan ini diorientasikan sebagai kawasan wisata kuliner dan budaya.

2. Senggigi beserta tiga gili (Gili Trawangan, Meno dan Air) untuk wisata bahari dan MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention, Exhibition) atau yang lazim disebut wisata konvensi.

3. Taman Nasional Gunung Rinjani (TNGR) untuk wisata alam dan pegunungan

4. Koridor Tano, Empang, Gili Kramat, Alas Utan serta Agrotamase yang cocok untuk wisata bahari, budaya dan kuliner.

5. Pulau Moyo dan kawasan Teluk Saleh untuk wisata bahari,

6. Kawasan Gunung Tambora untuk wisata alam, pegunungan dan budaya

7. Koridor utama Dompu-Sape juga berorientasi wisata bahari, budaya dan kuliner.

8. Koridor selatan Pulau Lombok yakni Sekotong-Kuta untuk pengembangan wisata bahari, kuliner, budaya dan konvensi,

9. Koridor Mataram-BIL (Bandara Internasional Lombok) yang berpotensi untuk pengembangan wisata alam dan budaya.

10. Selalu Legini cocok untuk wisata alam dan pegunungan.

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Kalimantan ( Borneo - Indonesia )

2009-06-04T00:59:00.000-07:00

FIKRIA HIDAYAT

Orangutan di Kalimantan Tengah.

Direktorat Jenderal Pengembangan Destinasi Departemen Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Winarno Sujas mengatakan, Pulau Kalimantan akan menjadi tujuan wisatawan dunia.

"Dijadikannya Pulau Kalimantan sebagai tujuan utama wisatawan dunia, karena turis sudah jenuh berkunjung ke tempat modern," kata Winarno Sujas, dalam kunjungan kerja di Pontianak, Jumat.

Ia mengatakan, para turis asing dari Eropa akan mencari tempat-tempat wisata yang tidak ada lagi di negaranya, seperti mengunjungi tempat-tempat petualangan, masuk hutan belantara, mendaki gunung, dan melihat langsung hutan yang selama ini dikenal dengan paru-paru dunia, seperti Taman Nasional Danau Sentarum dan Betung Kerihun di Kabupaten Kapuas Hulu.

"Banyak wisatawan manca negara ke depannya tidak hanya ke Bali karena keindahan dan keanekaragaman budaya, tetapi cenderung ingin melihat secara langsung hutan yang masih asli," ujarnya.

Ia berharap, Pemerintah Provinsi Kalimantan Barat berkomitmen kuat mempertahankan keaslian kawasan hutan yang termasuk dalam taman nasional agar ke depannya menjadi tujuan wisata paling digemari oleh wisatawan lokal maupun mancanegara.

Ia mengakui, faktor belum tersedianya dukungan infrastruktur menjadi kendala utama dalam menarik minat wisatawan berkunjung ke Kalbar, seperti masih buruknya kondisi jalan menuju akses tempat-tempat wisata alam tersebut.

Selain itu, sumber daya manusia (SDM) juga perlu dipersiapkan dalam menyambut Pulau Kalimantan menjadi tempat tujuan utama wisatawan mancanegara, katanya. Ia menambahkan, selain tetap menjaga kelestarian hutan Kalbar, juga harus mempersiapkan atraksi kebudayaan lain agar pada saat-saat tertentu misalnya malam hari, turis tidak kebingungan mencari hiburan lain.
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Pangandaran Beach-indonesia

2009-04-19T17:46:00.000-07:00

Pangandaran beach is located in Ciamis District in west java.From jakarta about 7 hours drive

2009-04-19T17:34:00.000-07:00

Cirata lake ,cianjur-west java

The biggest fish farm who product,all water lake fish : Gurame,Red nila,Black nila,Golden fish,Grasscap,mola,Patin,bawal,and others.

Pelabuhan ratu Beach,west java

2009-04-19T17:32:00.000-07:00

The Legend beach in indonesia with name's "Ratu Pantai Selatan".Nyi Roro is the name of beach Queen.Located at Sukabumi District about 4 hours drive from jakarta.Hotel facility are require from economi class until 5 stars hotel

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BALI - Dewata Island

2009-04-09T07:41:00.001-07:00

Statue of rice goddess Dewi Sri — Ubud, Bali.

Young Balinese dancers perform the ‘’Legong Keraton’’, created in the 18th century and based on a 13th century legend of the King of Lasem.

An Arjuna statue on a street.

The Balinese are renowned for their sculpting.

Bali was inhabited by Austronesian peoples by about 2000 BCE who migrated originally from Taiwan through Maritime Southeast Asia.^[2] Culturally and linguistically, the Balinese are thus closely related to the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago, the Philippines, and Oceania.^[3] Stone tools dating from this time have been found near the village of Cekik in the island's west.^[4]

Balinese culture was strongly influenced by Indian and Chinese, and particularly Hindu culture, in a process beginning around the 1st century AD. The name Balidwipa has been discovered from various inscriptions, including the Blanjong charter issued by Sri Kesari Warmadewa in 913 AD and mentioning Walidwipa. It was during this time that the complex irrigation system subak was developed to grow rice. Some religious and cultural traditions still in existence today can be traced back to this period. The Hindu Majapahit Empire (1293–1520 AD) on eastern Java founded a Balinese colony in 1343. When the empire declined, there was an exodus of intellectuals, artists, priests and musicians from Java to Bali in the 15th century.

The first European contact with Bali is thought to have been made by Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman who arrived in 1597, though a Portuguese ship had foundered off the Bukit Peninsula as early as 1585.^{[citation needed]} Dutch colonial control was expanded across the Indonesian archipelago in the nineteenth century (see Dutch East Indies). Their political and economic control over Bali began in the 1840s on the island's north coast by playing various distrustful Balinese realms against each other.^[5] In the late 1890s, struggles between Balinese kingdoms in the island's south were exploited by the Dutch to increase their control. The Dutch mounted large naval and ground assaults at the Sanur region in 1906 and were met by the thousands of members of the royal family and their followers who marched to certain death against superior Dutch force in a suicidal puputan defensive assault rather than face the humiliation of surrender.^[5] Despite Dutch demands for surrender, an estimated 4,000 Balinese marched to their death against the invaders. In 1908, a similar massacre occurred in the face of a Dutch assault in Klungkung. Afterwards the Dutch governors were able to exercise little influence over the island, and local control over religion and culture generally remained intact.

Dutch rule over Bali had come later and was never as well established as in other parts of Indonesia such as Java and Maluku. Imperial Japan occupied Bali during World War II during which time a Balinese military officer, Gusti Ngurah Rai, formed a Balinese 'freedom army'. In the 1930s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and artists Miguel Covarrubias and Walter Spies, and musicologist Colin McPhee created a western image of Bali as "an enchanted land of aesthetes at peace with themselves and nature", and western tourism first developed on the island.^[6] Following Japan's Pacific surrender in August 1945, the Dutch promptly returned to Indonesia, including Bali, immediately to reinstate their pre-war colonial administration. This was resisted by the Balinese rebels now using Japanese weapons. On 20 November 1946, the Battle of Marga was fought in Tabanan in central Bali. Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai, 29 years old, finally rallied his forces in east Bali at Marga Rana, where they made a suicide attack on the heavily armed Dutch. The Balinese battalion was entirely wiped out, breaking the last thread of Balinese military resistance. In 1946 the Dutch constituted Bali as one of the 13 administrative districts of the newly-proclaimed Republic of East Indonesia, a rival state to the Republic of Indonesia which was proclaimed and headed by Sukarno and Hatta. Bali was included in the "Republic of the United States of Indonesia" when the Netherlands recognised Indonesian independence on 29 December 1949.

The 1963 eruption of Mount Agung killed thousands, created economic havoc and forced many displaced Balinese to be transmigrated to other parts of Indonesia. Mirroring the widening of social divisions across Indonesia in the 1950s and early 1960s, Bali saw conflict between supporters of the traditional caste system, and those rejecting these traditional values. Politically, this was represented by opposing supporters of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the Indonesian Nationalist Party (PNI), with tensions and ill-feeling further increased by the PKI's land reform programs.^[5] An attempted coup in Jakarta was put down by forces led by General Suharto. The army became the dominant power as it instigated a violent anti-communist purge, in which the army blamed the PKI for the coup. Most estimates suggest that at least 500,000 people were killed across Indonesia, with an estimated 80,000 killed in Bali, equivalent to 5 per cent of the island's population.^[7] With no Islamic forces involved as in Java and Sumatra, upper-caste PNI landlords led the extermination of PKI members.^[8]

Bali blast monument.

As a result of the 1965/66 upheavals, Suharto was able to maneuver Sukarno out of the presidency, and his "New Order" government reestablished relations with western countries. The pre-War Bali as "paradise" was revised in a modern form, and the resulting large growth in tourism has led to a dramatic increase in Balinese standards of living and significant foreign exchange earned for the country.^[5] A bombing in 2002 by militant Islamists in the tourist area of Kuta killed 202 people, mostly foreigners. This attack, and another in 2005, severely affected tourism, bringing much economic hardship to the island.

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Manado,North Sulawesi

2009-04-05T05:14:00.000-07:00

Sam Ratulangi International Airport

Manado is the capital city of North Sulawesi,with the view direct to ocean.
The best for diving in Bunaken island,one is most sea garden in the world.
From jakarta about 4 hours flight.
Travels with Pelni pasengger ship from jakarta about 6 days trip
Lake name is Tondano is located at Tomohon city about 1.5 hours drive from manado.
Manado has a beautifull beach name malalayang beach,.....Sadona beach......Likupang Beach
Hotel facility from 1-5 star
Night live at Boulevard street 24 hours open

more info of indonesia www.indonesia.com
www.wikipedia.com

Bandung-West Java

2009-04-04T04:23:00.000-07:00

The Dutch-built Gedung Sate

The Historical Asia-Afrika Street, Bandung

The earliest reference to the city dates back to 1488, but archaeological findings suggest a type of Homo erectus species had lived on the banks of the Cikapundung River and around the old lake of Bandung.^[10] During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) opened plantations in the Bandung area. A supply road connecting Batavia (now Jakarta), Bogor, Cianjur, Bandung, Bandung is located 1200 m from sea level,most people calls faris Van Java or Flower City.
Toursm dentinations are :

Lembang : A place who have a Tangkuban Perahu Mountain with a legend story
Puncak : Tea Farm and most jakarta's people destinations at weekend
Garut : 1 hour trip from bandung,best destinations is a traditional sheep fight
Beaches : Pangandaran beach ,Pelabuhan Ratu beach,south Cianjur Beach
Garden : Bogor Botanical Garden,Flowers Garden Cipanas,

More to see for your vacations destination in west java.The popular one in Bandung is a student city for indonesian student.
Hotels for stay are local and international star.
more info at : www.travelpod.com

Indonesia

2009-04-03T08:26:00.000-07:00

Republic of Indonesia

Republik Indonesia


Flag	Coat of arms

Most people in indonesia speak indonesian language,with 33 province from sabang(aceh-sumatra) untill maraoke(papua island)

The capaital city of indonesia is jakarta,who located in java island.The airport name is Soekarno-hatta international airport,about 1 hour from the city.Beach in jakarta name's Ancol with facility 4 stars hotel,who has the Fantasy World,Seaworld,and many sea life.

The President name is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,Jakarta is the most traffic business area in indonesia.
Seribu Island is the best place for fishing,yacthing,snorkling,diving and many activity on the sea.
From Jakarta about 2 hours trip,we has Puncak Mountain for the fress air,plantations,Flowers,Tea Farm and Safari Garden for animals.
In jakarta for night live ,open restaurant from 11 am-1 pm.We have many restaurant to visit.
korean,japannese,thai,or tradisional food .
see indonesia at Indonesia is a Wonderfull Place

The Republic of Indonesia (pronounced /ˌɪndoʊˈniːziə/ or /ˌɪndəˈniːʒə/) (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands, and with an estimated population of around 237 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation; however, no reference is made to Islam in the Indonesian constitution. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the seventh century, when the Srivijaya Kingdom traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually adopted Indian cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders brought Islam, and European powers fought one another to monopolize trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process, and periods of rapid economic change.

Across its many islands, Indonesia consists of distinct ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups. The Javanese are the largest and most politically dominant ethnic group. As a unitary state and a nation, Indonesia has developed a shared identity defined by a national language, ethnic diversity, religious pluralism within a majority Muslim population, and a history of colonialism and rebellion against it. Indonesia's national motto, "Bhinneka tunggal ika" ("Unity in Diversity" literally, "many, yet one"), articulates the diversity that shapes the country. However, sectarian tensions and separatism have led to violent confrontations that have undermined political and economic stability. Despite its large population and densely populated regions, Indonesia has vast areas of wilderness that support the world's second highest level of biodiversity. The country is richly endowed with natural resources, yet poverty is a defining feature of contemporary Indonesia.

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