What do you know about the Ondel-ondel? How much do you know about Betawi culture? If you have no idea about Betawi culture, it’s completely fine. I, myself, didn’t think much about it until I was caught in Jakarta’s traffic, when I saw a pair of exhausted Ondel-ondel in worn-out costumes roaming on the street, asking people for money. This embarrassing scene made me wonder and curious to know more about the Ondel-ondel story. What happened? Ondel-ondel Galau is about a young girl, ...

I see a piece of hand-drawn batik as a silent testimony of a tradition that brings together the creative best of so many devoted people. It is this acknowledgement that awakens my deepest respect. The amount of energy, deliberation, and love that has gone into the creation of batik is unfathomable. No batik piece is a work of a single person. Batik comes to life through a chain of expertise, a dedicated set of tools, and a regiment of processing methods which have been perfected for hundreds of ...

Indonesia is a very significant country of Southeast Asia. Even though it possesses characteristics that can make it the third "rising power" of Asia its size, population, and its location in the Strait of Malacca, etc.it has not yet shown a resolve to exploit those characteristics to become one. When it decides to become the next rising power, it has todevelop systematic plans of economic development and use economic wealth stemming from such development for building its military (Tentara ...

Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana memandang kebngkitan kebudayaan adalah perjuangan untuk membebaskan diri dari "warna" kebudayaan lama. Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana saw the awakening of culture as struggle to free ourselves from the old cultural concepts. ...

Teori dan konsep rantal sejarah sejak jaman kerajaan hingga kemerdekaan yang membentuk karakter manusia Indonesia pada umumnya. Indonesian History of man and culture. ...

Sejauh mana agama mempengaruhi pembentkan masyarakat madani- masyarakat berpengetahuan sekali gus berakhlak mulia-di Indonesia. Naskah berdasarkan penelitian dan wawancara sejak periode orde baru hingga reformasi pasca presiden Gus Dur. How far does religious aspect involve in the molding of civilized society in Indonesia. This book is a script based on research and survey since the new orde period until the post Gus Dur reform era. ...

Kumpulan sumbangan tulisan dari para cendikiawan terkemuka Indonesia sebagai hadiah ulang tahun ke-80 Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana. Mengupas berbagai ide tentang teknologi, kependudukan, seni dan budaya serta futurologi (studi masa depan) Indonesia menjelang abad ke 21. A collection of articles written by Indonesian intellectuals dedicated to Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana on his 80th birthday. Contains ideas on technology, population, art and culture, social issues economy and politics century. ...

Pura Besakih is the paramount Hindu temple on Bali Located high on the slopes of the volcano Mt Agung, it has developed over more than thousand years into great complex of 22 separate temples, the largest and central being Pura Penataran Agung. The annual cycle of more than seventy rituals, which symbolically link the temples into a whole, culminates in the hundred-year ceremony called Ekadasa Rudra (last held in 1979). The temple complex, state-supported at least since the fifteenth ...

What hides under such a trumpeting title? What is today's Bali? Is it so different from yesterday's? Perhaps, but perhaps not too... Bali today actually refers to a method, which has been that of the principal writer, Jean Couteau, and his friend Usadi Wiryatnaya while runnning a daily "English Corner" at the Bali Post, the island's main newspaper, between 1991 and 1994. Everyday an article had to be written on Bali or a Balinese topic. This volume is the first in the series. It deals with ...

I La Galigo ― a photographic and textual voyage through the creation myth of the peoples of South Sulawesi. ...