Yogyakarta The Hearth Of Java
Yogyakarta / Jogyakarta special province (nowdays simply called Jogya) is relatively small narrow area, with its rich of tourist attractions. Visitor can find many kind of art works and cultural peformance, which are interesting and excellent.
According to the Yogyakarta history, before 1755 Surakarta was the capital city of Mataram Kingdom. After the The Treaty Of Gianti in 1755, Mataram was divided into two kingdoms; Surakarta Hadiningrat Sultanate (at Surakarta) and Ngayogyokarto Hadiningrat Sultanate (at Yogyakarta). Following the treaty, Prince Mangkubumi the brother of Susuhunan Pakubuwono II, was crowned as the King of Ngayogyakarto Hadiningrat. He was then called Sultan Hamengku Buwono I.
Yogyakarta as the center of Javanese art and culture, there are various kind of fascinating tourist attractions in Yogyakarta. That is the reason why people refer to Yogyakarta as the cradle of Javanese culture. And for those who love mountainside, beaches or beautiful scenery, Yogyakarta also provides them with abundant numbers of sight. Related to above mentioned ancient cultural heritage, Yogyakarta is well known also as the center of culture, indicated by a great number of historical building and sites.
Yogyakarta Savoring Appetite
Traditional Javanese food can be found in many places around in Yogyakarta. The famous traditional food in Yogyakarta called Gudeg which containt boiled vegetables and jackfruit, eggs and chicken that cooked with coconut milk and Jati leaf. You can found Gudeg at many places in Yogyakarta. In the morning local people ussualy eat Pecel for breakfast, a traditional food which contain vegetables with chili nuts sauce. Bakmi Jawa is another traditional food similiar with chinese noodle but cooked with traditional system. The very popular Bakmi Jawa can found at around Alun-Alun (City Square) Cafe and Restourant can be found at Yogyakarta very easily. In the night you can found many food stall in Malioboro street, they are open at the front of clossing shops. but to dine in this area, the visitors must be carefully ask the prices first for each food and drink.
Yogyakarta Hotel Accommodation
As a tourist destination, Yogyakarta has a lot of hotels that easily be found in some places. There is many stars hotels with various facilities. Visitor can choose the atmosphere, location and accomodation suitable for tourist budget. But for backpackers or visitor with middle budget you can find hotels and guest houses that quite cheap at Prawirotaman and Sosrowijayan Street. If you plan to stay for a long time you can negotiate the room rate. There are shops that provides tourist needs, such as money changer, internet booth, telecomunication booth and European food stall, mini market and so on.
Yogyakarta Art & Home Industry
Batik is unique form of Indonesia art, a combination of artistic expression and technical skill. Using beeswax, paraffin and multi colors paint, batik is done on pieces of clothing. The quality of Batik is determined by the intricacy of motif, the technique used and the kind basic cloths. Originally, both color and the motif were very much influenced by the surrounding nature, belief, plants, animal etc Batik has been both an art and a craft for centuries. In Java, Indonesia, batik is part of an ancient tradition, and some of the finest batik cloth in the world is still made there. Contemporary batik, while owing much to the past, is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles. For example, the artist may use etching, discharge dyeing, stencils, different tools for waxing and dyeing, wax recipes with different resist values and work with silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics.
Batik is historically the most expressive and subtle of the resist methods. The ever widening range of techniques available offers the artist the opportunity to explore a unique process in a flexible and exciting way
Kuningan (brassware) also can found at Kota Gede- Yogyakarta. People in Kotagede have been familiar with this metal work for a long time. Traditional brass products like smoker set, cake moulds, ceiling lamp, brass bowls, bells, vases and other product
Silver handicraft was a distinctive feature of Kota Gede, located about 6 kilometers from the city center Yogyakarta. beside the Royal Cemetery of Panembahan Senopati.This small and historical old city is well known as silver town
Wood, rattan and bamboo crafts product can found along Malioboro street shops.
In Yogyakarta there are so many artists who can create wood, bamboo and rattan to be art craft as like lampshade, fruit basket, bags. You can also found dry leaves crafted for photo albums, sandals, bags etc
Yogyakarta Music and Dance
Wayang Kulit or Shadow puppet from leather material is performing arth which contain many subtances of Javanese culture and values. Wayang kulit stories contains lesson on virtues that can guide them to behave properly in society. Historically, the performance consisted of shadows cast on a cotton screen cast an oil lamp. Today, the source of light in Java is most often a halogen electric light. The peformance of a wayang puppet shadow play is always accompanied by gamelan music. The puppets are made from piece of polished and gilded hide of cows. The person who plays this puppet called Dalang. Dalang perform to be narrator, singer and also director.
Wayang wong or wayang orang is wayang performed and represented by human. The stories are the same like the stories of Wayang Kulit , but the dalang function as narator and stage director
Sendratari Ramayana (Ramayana Ballet), although there are many other Ramayana ballet in many other places, performance that showed in Yogyakarta is the distinct one since itis performed on the open air theatre. This open air stage located at the west side of Prambanan Temple. Presented by more than 250 artists at its original place: Ramayana Open Air Theater & Trimurti TheaterPrambanan Temple complex - Yogyakarta - Indonesia Ramayana is the Java's finest example of storytelling in stone in which the epic is egrved on the wall of Siwa Temple in the complex of Prambanan sanctuaries. Prambanan's version of teh Ramayana differs somewhat from the original Indian epic, reflecting the adaptation to javanese sensibilities over the centuries.
Karawitan Yogyakarta
Karawitan is traditional music in Yogyakarta with collaboration between Javanese music called Gamelan and male or female singer. At many traditional ceremonies in Yogyakarta, karawitan usually played to entertaint the guest. Karawitan is a general term for music and singing associated with the gamelan of Java.
Ketoprak is another traditional theatre perform in Javanese language in Yogyakarta. The main feature is the dialogue between the player character preceded by Javanese song.
Ketoprak (also spelled Kethoprak) is a form of popular theatre accompanied by Gamelan music, from Java, Indonesia. It is generally believed that it originated in south central Java as a rural folk form, involving singing and possibly dancing and clowning, during harvest time.
Jathilan is really a pride that the Art Market of Gabusan, which is located on kilometer 9,7 on Yogyakarta – Parangtritis Street, with its specific building capable to receive 600 craft makers. It is not existing in other regencies and even in other countries in Indonesia.
However, behind the pride there is a worry that the Gabusan will have same destiny like LIK (Small Industry Area), which was build in New Order. But, the officers of Bantul Regency has thought and watched it since a long time before it was built. The solution is the Art Market of Gabusan is not used to invite tourists, who picnic to Parangtritis beach merely. On the paper view, it will be great for Bantul, if half from two millions Parangtritis beach tourists per year visit Gabusan.
Prambanan Temple are classical buildings and evidence as a product of very high and priceless culture. The temples used to be a place to bring offerings. This can be verified by seeing the ashes of animals found in the temples.
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