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.

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

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.

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.