Folk Dance

Indonesian dance show social complexity and social levels of society coating, which also shows the social class and the degree of smoothness. Based protectors and supporters, folk dance is a dance that is developed and supported by many people, both in rural and urban areas. Compared to the dance palace (palace) developed and protected by the court, the Indonesian people dance more dynamic, energetic, and relatively free from the strict rules and discipline specific, though some styles of movement or posture characteristic often retained....

Palace Dance

Dance in Indonesia reflects the long history of Indonesia. Some noble families; various castles and palaces that still survive in various parts of Indonesia, and conservationists be a bastion of culture palaces. The most obvious difference between the palace dances with folk dance tradition appears in Javanese dance. Javanese strata are layered and multilevel reflected in its culture. If the nobility class pay more attention to subtlety, elements of spirituality, nobility, and keadiluhungan; most people pay more attention to entertainment...

Religion Samawi

The three major religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, are often classified as Abrahamic religions or religious Samawi. All three religions have the same number of traditions, but also fundamental differences in the core teachings. All three have great influence in human culture around the world. Jewish is a religion, which is otherwise called as the first, is a monotheistic religion and one of the oldest religions still exist today. There are values ​​and history of the Jews is also referenced in the other Abrahamic religions,...

Tropical Rain Forest

  Tropical rain forest, or often written as a tropical rain forest is a forest biome that is always wet or damp, which can be found in the region around the equator; ie approximately at latitude 0 ° -10 ° to the north and south of the equator. These forests are found in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America, Central America, Mexico and the Pacific Islands. In terms of English, forest formations are known as Lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest, tropical rainforest Lowland evergreen or briefly called a tropical rainforest.    Tropical...

Mangrove Forests

  Mangrove forests also called mangrove forest is a forest that grows in the aqueous brackish marshes located on the shoreline and is influenced by tidal water. This forest is growing especially in places where there is siltation and accumulation of organic matter. Both in bays protected from the onslaught of the waves, and around the mouth of the river where the water slows down and precipitate sludge brought from upstream. Mangrove ecosystem is unique, both because of siltation resulting in lack of soil aeration; high soil...

Mount Kerinci

  Mount Kerinci (also spelled "Kerintji", and is known as the Mountain Tower, Volcano Kurinci, Kerinchi, Korinci, or Peak Indrapura) adalahgunung highest in Sumatra, Indonesia and the highest peak outside of Papua. Mount Kerinci located in Bukit Barisan Mountains, near the west coast, and is located approximately 130 km south of Padang. The mountain is surrounded by dense forests of Kerinci Seblat National Park and is the habitat of Sumatran tigers and rhinos sumatra.Kerinci still active and last erupted in 200...

Mount Batur

  Mount Batur is an active volcano in the district of Kintamani, Bangli Regency, Bali, Indonesia. Located in the northwest of Mount Agung, the mountain has a caldera measuring 13.8 x 10 km and is one of the largest and most beautiful in the world (van Bemmelen, 1949). Caldera ridge height ranges from 1267 m - 2152 m (peak G. Abang). I formed inside the caldera caldera II shaped circular with a diameter of approximately 7 km. Basic caldera II lies between 120-300 m lower than the railroad Kintamani (basic Caldera I). In the caldera...

Mount Rinjani

  Mount Rinjani is a mountain located on the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. Mountain which is the second highest volcano in Indonesia with an altitude of 3726 m above sea level is a favorite for mountain climbers Indonesia for its beautiful scenery. This mountain is part of Mount Rinjani National Park has an area of ​​approximately 41,330 ha and proposed the addition so that it will be 76 000 ha to the west and ea...

Baruttung Falls

  Baruttung Falls is a waterfall located in the hamlet Pao, Bana Village, District Bontocani, Bone regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. [1] The falls are located in south Bone County, 15 kilometers from the district capital Bontocani, has a height of 100 meters. The waterfall is equipped with a natural pond with an area of ​​10 meter2 and depth of 1 to 4 meters. This waterfall is upstream of the river which is a sign Tangka natural boundary between the districts of Bone Sinjai. ...

Sedudo Falls

  Sedudo Falls is a waterfall and tourist attraction located in the Village District Ngliman Sawahan, Nganjuk, East Java. The distance is about 30 km south of the district capital Nganjuk. Located at an altitude of 1438 meters above sea level, the height of the waterfall is about 105 meters. This tourist spot has good facilities, and transport are easily accessible. Local people still believe, in the waterfall has supernatural power. This natural tourist sites visited by people in Sura (Javanese calendar). It is said that the...

Sanur Beach

  Sanur Beach is one attraction that is often used as a vacation destination for locals and tourists domestic or foreign countries. In Sanur Beach we will see many people bathing in Sanur beach because the current calm and the waves are not too big....

Batak Culture

TorTor Batak kingdom was founded by a monarch in a country-precepts Toba silahi (silalahi) lua 'Baligi (Luat Balige), Parsoluhan village, tribe Pohan. The king in question is King Miracle called Alang Pardoksi (Pardosi). The heyday of the empire led by the Batak king named. Sultan Maharaja in 1054 Hijri Bongsu managed to prosper the country with different political polici...

Betawi Culture

 Betawi tribe consists of several ethnic groups joined in one area to form their own culture which Betawi culture. Betawi tribe comes from the mating-mawin ethnic and nation in the past. Biologically speaking, those who claim to be descendants of the Betawi people are of mixed blood of various tribes and nations who were invited by the Netherlands to Batavia. What is called a people or tribe actually countless newcomers Betawi in Jakarta. Ethnic group was born out of a combination of various other ethnic groups who had already...

Culture China

Chinese (Hokkien dialect word 中华 [中华], which means Central Nation: in Mandarin Pinyin spelling, the word is pronounced "Zhonghua") is another name for the people of the tribe or race Chinese in Indonesia. This word in the Indonesian language is often used to replace the word "China" which now has a negative connotation because it is often used in a condescending tone. [1] This word can also refer to people of Chinese descent who live outside the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Discourse...

National Park Takabonerate

Takabonerate formed from three words: taka means coral, bone means the sand, and the mean rate above. So, Takabonerate means reef in the sand. Takabonerate the name of a district in Selayar regency, South Sulawesi. Consisting of small islands with sandy beaches are very clean and white. What is interesting from the beaches, atolls stretching in the sea (coral islands) along the 220,000 hectares. Being the third longest in the world after Kwajifein in the Marshal Islands and Suvadiva in Moldiva. In addition, the sea is also inhabited...