Articles tagged ‘Culture’
Wayang Golek: Heubeul Isuk, West Java
By Barrie | April 2nd, 2008 |
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Wayang golek, or wooden puppets, are usually presented on stage in front of hundreds of spectators, in a show that lasts all night. But in West Java, these puppets have ventured off the stage and into the souvenir and interior decoration market. Many of these puppets come from a hamlet located far away from the [...]
Kawin Tebu Ceremony: Bandung, West Java
By Barrie | April 2nd, 2008 | Add a Comment »
The annual Kawin Tebu Ceremony is a particularly popular festival amongst the region’s many sugar cane planters and workers but usually involves the whole community. It takes place in the days leading up to the new planting season with many prayer sessions taking place in the hope of a good harvest for the coming year’s [...]
Conserving Eastern Indonesian Artefacts
By Barrie | April 2nd, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Australia is currently sponsoring a three-week workshop and training program at the East Nusa Tenggara Provincial Museum in Kupang to help conserve fragile wooden and bamboo artefacts from Eastern Indonesia. Rare and precious cultural heritage items from Eastern Indonesia are commonly made of wood and bamboo, so it is anticipated the workshop will be of [...]
Preserving Textile Weaving: Bali
By Barrie | April 1st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Life’s threads are drawn from tales of the past; its rituals and religions woven into the fabric of culture and lands. Across Indonesia, this weaving of life’s threads is a link to history, and the stories of lives embedded in textiles. For centuries, women across the archipelago have been the storytellers of their cultures, daily [...]
Batak Mythology
By Barrie | March 31st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
I am always delighted to see starlit skies. Indonesians are blessed because our country is positioned in such a way we can enjoy a clear night sky. Every night we can enjoy the complexity of the cosmos’s ecosystem and the brilliant array of the starry equatorial sky. I often sit on the roof and [...]
Indonesians in Focus: Fikar W. Eda
By Barrie | March 27th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
“Berbilah-bilah rencong/dengan sarung dan tangkai berkilap/tak lupa kami selipkan/pertanda /martabat/dan keagungan/betapa pedih hati kami/dari Jakarta/kalian hujamkan mata rencong itu/tepat di jantung kami” (Blades of rencong/with their shiny sheaths and handles/we do not forget to put on/as a sign/of dignity and greatness/how our hearts bleed/from Jakarta/you stab the rencong/right into our hearts.) The poem is among [...]
Conserving Culture: Lembata, East Nusa Tenggara
By Barrie | March 27th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
A picture not only tells a thousand words for the people of Lamalera, a village in Lembata, East Nusa Tenggara. It also serves as a tool to preserve their ancestral heritage and the environment from which they earn their living. In the eastern part of Indonesia, where the fruits of national development are rarely seen, [...]
Kampoeng China: Cibubur, Jakarta, West Java
By Barrie | March 24th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
Kampoeng China (Chinese Village), located at Kota Wisata housing complex in Cibubur, East Jakarta, is full of miniatures resembling famous places in China — Beijing’s Forbidden City or the Great Wall. Everything is painted red, the most important color in Chinese culture. There are also plenty of dragons and other traditional Chinese beasts. The site [...]
BootsnAll Logue Travel Sites
By Barrie | March 21st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
The BootsnAll travel company is, without a doubt, the best source for travellers wishing to know anything about their intended destinations. Besides the very informative Travel Forum, you are able to book tickets, arrange insurance and a multitude of others connected with travel on this planet. BootsnAll also has a family of Logue sites of [...]
Indonesians in Focus: Godi Suwarma
By Barrie | March 21st, 2008 | Add a Comment »
From the long white hair to the sarong-style trousers and leather sandals from the West Java town of Garut, everything about Godi Suwarma says “artist”. But the Sundanese writer does not care what people think. He believes in his choice to become an artist, a decision many people find hard to accept. In a writing [...]
