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dayak tribe are one from many tribes in indonesia south east asia, some called them as a head hunter. but the girl from dayak tribe are very very beautiful, take a look on the photo below
we will collect another beautiful culture from dayak tribe another time, or if you had experience about dayak tribe, you can share your information here.
The natural wonders of the state of Yucatán are innumerable and some of the most important and unusual are the cenotes, or sinkholes. In the Yucatán there are over 3000 cenotes, with only 1400 actually studied and registered. The Mayas called them dzonot, which the conquering Spaniards translated as cenote.
Geraldo Díaz Alpuche was a military commander in the 16th century who was greatly impressed with these underground caverns and pools, and he tried to explain the meaning of the word cenote in the Spanish language as meaning “deep thing”. The Motul dictionary, a dictionary of Mayan hieroglyphics, defines dzonot as “abysmal and deep”. Cenotes are magical, enigmatic and unique in the world and were once the only resource for fresh, sweet water in the local Yucatecan jungle. (more…)
this is wallpaper on my desktop, very awesome isn’t it? just click to the picture to enlarge this wallpaper and then you can save it on your personal computer and make it as your desktop wallpaper.
The word “batik” is Indonesian in origin, even if the concept was known by Egyptians and Indians. It is known to be more than a millenium old, and there are evidences that cloth decorated through some form of resist technique was in use in the early centuries AD in several West African, Middle-Eastern and Asian communities.
The word Batik is originally an Idonesian-Malay word and means to dot .This art of textile is spread in the hindu and malay world, but Indonesia is certainly the heart of the Batik.This way of painting and coloring textile has reached its higher degree of excellence in the Island of Java , in cities like Solo, Yogyakarta, Pekalongan or Cirebon. From Java this ‘batik’ cloth was exported to other islands of the archipelago and to the Malay peninsula.
On the 17th century, the Javanese sultanate of Mataram accorded important ceremonial functions to the Batik clothes. Sultan Agung of Mataram is known to have dressed in white cotton decorated with Indigo blue, and his court dancers wore kain kembangan colored with a red organic dye.
During the past two or three centuries batik has become one of the principal means of expression of the spiritual and cultural values of Southeast Asia.
Although the process of decorating cloth through the process of batik is found in several regions in Africa or India and even in some South East Asian countries, the batik of Indonesia is unique and unequaled. Indonesian Batik is made in several regions, but the center of the art is Central Java, in cities like Yogyakarta, Solo, Cirebon, Pekalongan and Indramayu.
The pride of Indonesians to wear batik till the present day has preserve this art of textile.
The beauty of Batik is a tribute to the patience, creativity of the woman of Java, the main island of Indonesia. Credit should be also given to men who prepare the cloth and handle the dyeing and finishing process.
Batik is generally thought of as the most quintessentially Indonesian textile. Motifs of flowers, twinning plants, leaves buds, flowers, birds, butterflies, fish, insects and geometric forms are rich in symbolic association and variety; there are about three thousand recorded batik patterns.
sources : www.discover-indo.tierranet.com
No less than 200 invitations from ambassadors from various countries in Jakarta, businessmen, bankers, celebrities, and other community leaders who meet the porch of City Hall Special Capital Region (DKI) Jakarta was filled with wonder when the veil covering the Mercedes-Benz C250 CGI still not opened.
Looking over his eyes corners of the veil of cloth, looking for cracks as what was the car that was mentioned was typically had a pattern as any other Mercedes Benz models. Understandably, the host of the celebration, the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Fauzi Bowo when giving a speech called another car from another.
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Batik Parang and Slope.
These motifs included in the court of Surakarta palace oversized uniforms, and who may use only the King and Son. The word “machete” change of the word “Pereng” or edge of a cliff in the form of “Slope” as the low plateau that forms of flat diagonal lines. Taking the basic picture of a cliff near the shore south of the island of Java, which is named Paranggupito, Parangkusumo and Parangtritis and so on.
Parang Batik hue difference and Slope:
A. Batik Parang pattern characteristics:
* Diagonal slope shape 45 °.
* Mlinjon wear.
* Sujen wear.
* There Gareng eyes.
B. The style characteristic Batik Slope:
* Shape sloping diagonal 45 °.
* Not always wear mlinjon, Gareng sujen & eyes.
* Only a limited straight line.
* Can use lung-lungan motive or interrupted by parangan form called glebegan.
Parang Batik already developed before the founding of the kingdom of Mataram Kartasura are:
* Parang Rusak,
* Parang Barong,
* Damage Parang Barong,
* Parang Kusumo,
* Parang Pamor and
* Klithik machetes and so on.
As for Batik Slope familiar include:
* Glebegan Slope,
* Thathit Slope and
* Slope Sobrah and so on.
Batik Slope style of the original style of Surakarta is bathik slope “Udan Riris” and appeared in the reign of the New Testament. III mid XVIII century. Melatar backs on the birth of this motif is a manifestation of concern after Surakarta Mataram split in two. (between Yogyakarta and Surakarta) and one consequence is not regular government conditions, there are still many improvements and concern. At that time the New Testament. III implementing teteki, one of which is soaked on the Laweyan Premulung river flowing village near the tomb of his ancestors (Kyai Ageng Anis / parents OF Ki Pemanahan ). In the teteki he lit the kerosene lamp (light stick) and then suddenly the drizzling rain. The incident that inspired him to create patterns bathik “Udan Riris”.
Batik Cemukiran.
This motif usually used for this type of headband or called udheng / dhestar or better known as Blangkon. These patterns form the margins / field edge with a plain batik called modang. Figure batik decorating style is the flame that has meaning to reduce the power of self-centered, it contains the teaching that before we can defeat the external enemy should be able to defeat the enemy that comes from self (desires). This motif developed in the New Testament. III and should only be used Pepatihdalem and Sentanadalem.
Pariangan is a neat little village on the slopes of Mount Marapi in Indonesia. They say that the Minangkabau people of Indonesia first arrived here after their ship landed on this mountain when the world was submerged in water and only the mountain’s peak was visible (That’s some kind of cruise!). Well…sitting in that old village, with the evening just setting in, I could almost believe that familiar fable. This place was pretty different from the city lights of Chicago, where I live. You could feel that oddly tangible sense of history around here.
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They were just setting up the puppet show. I had come all the way from Chicago to see this thing. It is called the Wayang Kulit, and it is an ancient Indonesian art form. “Wayang” literally means “shadow,” and you can understand why they call it that if you see how the puppet show works. I have seen puppet shows elsewhere, but most of them have actual puppets being moved around by a set of strings. The Wayang Kulit is different; here you don’t see the actual puppets. You just see their shadows.
They set up a backlit screen. The screen looks like it is made with Japanese rice paper; it has that peculiar texture. The light behind the screen is a diffuse yellow. The puppets are placed between the light and the screen and what you get to see, sitting before the screen, are their shadows. There’s a very different visual impact of this “shadow dancing” from the usual sticks-n-strings puppet shows I had seen before. Things look more black and white, and visually, the show is very powerful.
I had read up on Wayang Kulit, of course. It is a peculiar Hindu art form of very ancient Indian origin. Wayang Kulit did not originate in Indonesia; it was brought here by Hindu colonialists in the 8th or 9th century CE. The first performance of Wayang Kulit is mentioned in a 930 CE inscription here which says “si Giligi mayawang” or “Sir Giligi played Wayang.” Apparently, this “Sir Giligi” (Sir?!) was a famous wandering entertainer around these parts. The theme of Sir Giligi’s ancient puppet show has not changed much even today. These themes are almost always stories from ancient Indian epics, and they talk about ancient war heroes, gods, demons, and not a few princesses, I guess. The actual religion-oriented themes didn’t interest me much, to be honest; but I was fascinated by the continuity of this art form, and the strong visual impact of the shadows dancing on the yellow screen.
The show starts off with peculiarly resonant drum music. If you have heard drummers beating to the tune of the Balinese dance music (YouTube?), you will see what I mean. This is a small drum with a wide base, and the sound has a strong high bass note to it. I can well imagine some of our Chicago rapper brothers getting hold of this thing; they would love it; I did.
Then they start off with the actual puppet dancing. There is a sort of “soul” music that goes on with it. It is done in a strangely nasal voice; I guess they are talking about the stories and themes of the show. I am not sure I understand what is going on, so I just stop worrying about it and focus on the shadows.
The shadow puppets are mesmerizing. The puppets themselves are very well designed, with lots of details in the peculiar headdresses and the style of clothing. They move with a fine grace. If you are watching this thing at night, in an unknown, strange village like this, you are bound to feel something different. What can I say – it’s a very out-of-the-world experience!
The Wayang Kulit continued for an hour into the night. There we were, about two hundred ethnic Indonesians, one extremely garrulous Padang cab driver and an American from Chicago, and we all sat engrossed in the strange beat of that drum, that weird, interesting music, and the shadow puppets dancing away on the screen.
The cabby was unnaturally quiet on the way back to the hotel, as if he could see the little shadow puppets dancing around the car in the darkness of the Indonesian night, and had to focus on the road so he didn’t hit one of them.
written by : Thea Elfleda
CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
Culture or culture is the whole idea and the object made or created by humans in the development of history. Ruth Benedict saw the culture as a way of thinking and doing that seen in the lives of a group of people and that distinguishes it from other groups. Experts generally agree that culture is the behavior and human adjustment based on the things learned / learning behavior (Sajidiman, in “Culture-Cultural Liberation We”; 1999).
Cultures vary in nature, but because it is the fruit of adab (magnanimity), then all cultures should always be orderly, beautiful wholesome, noble, giving a sense of peaceful, happy, happy, and so on. Nature of culture becomes a sign and size of the low-high refinement of each nation (Dewantara; 1994).
Culture can be divided into 3 kinds of views of the situation-type type:
* Living-human inwardness, which is the cause in order to live peacefully with the indigenous community-istiadatnya smooth and beautiful, peaceful orderly government of the country; orderly peaceful religion or mysticism and morality.
* The human imagination, which can lead to the sublime language, literature and ethics.
* Skill humans, which led to the kinds of intelligence about the company’s land, commerce, crafts, cruises, traffic connections, art manifold; everything is beautiful (Dewantara; 1994).
Ki Hajar Dewantara defines culture as a victory or a result of the struggle for life, the struggle against the powerful forces 2 and eternal, nature and age. Culture has never had a lasting form, but continually alternating nature and age. (Dewantara; 1994).
NATIONAL CULTURE
Indonesian National Culture is all the peaks and the cultural essence of value in the entire archipelago, both old and new creation, the national spirit (Dewantara; 1994).
Indonesian National Culture essentially consists of all the cultures included in the territory of the Republic of Indonesia. Without culture there is no National Culture. That does not mean simply the sum of National Culture all local cultures across the nation. National culture is a reality, because of national unity is a reality. National culture will be established if on the one hand cultures native archipelago remained steady, and on the other hand national life can be lived as meaningful by all Indonesian citizens (Suseno; 1992).
In Article 32 UUD 1945 stated, “Culture is the culture that arise as a fruit of mind-power effort entire Indonesian people. Old culture and contained the original as cultural peaks in the regions throughout Indonesia, calculated as the Nation of Culture. Business culture to progress towards manners, culture and unity, by not refusing new material from a foreign culture that can widen or enrich their own national culture, and the heightens the degree of humanity of Indonesia “(Atmadja, in” Culture-Cultural Liberation We; 1999). (more…)
After mat Jogja Carnival, along Jalan Malioboro area will again alive with a festival of arts and culture, culinary, and trade in an event called “Malioboro Festival 2009 The Spirit of Culture”. This event will last for three days, on 6-8 November.
malioboro street indonesia
Head of Tourism DIY Tazbir, Wednesday (21/10), said different Malioboro Yogyakarta Festival Carnival because it contains not only the cultural carnival will also be opened despite the carnival event of the Garden of Abu Bakar Ali Parking to the North Square of Sultan Palace. According to him, no problem just the City Government held a Carnival Yogyakarta Malioboro Festival followed. (more…)
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