Selasa, 02 Oktober 2012

Folk Dance

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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. Dance people pay more attention to the function of entertainment and social interaction rather than ritual function.

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Dance Jaipongan Ronggeng and Sundanese dance is a good example of the folk dance tradition. Both are social dance that is more entertainment. Often featured dance movements that are considered less appropriate when viewed from the perspective of court dance, folk dance result is often misunderstood too erotic or too rough in the standard of the palace. Despite these dances still thrive in the tradition of the people of Indonesia because it is supported by the community. Some of the traditional folk dance has developed into a mass dance with simple movements in order, such as Poco-poco dance from Minahasa North Sulawesi, and dance Sajojo of Papua

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Palace Dance

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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 and social elements of the dance. As a result of more stringent palace dances and has a set of rules and discipline are maintained from generation to generation, while people dance more freely, and open up a variety of influences.

 Protection of the royal palace of art and culture generally encouraged by the royal institution as guardians and protectors of their tradition. For example, the Sultan and the Sunan of Kraton Yogyakarta and Surakarta Palace known as the creator of a variety of dance palace complete with a dance accompanist gamelan composition. The dance palace is also present in the court tradition of Bali and Malay, which usually Java-like-also emphasizes the subtlety, the glory and prestige. Dances such as the former Palace of the Sultanate of Aceh Sumatra, Sultanate of Deli in North Sumatra, Riau Malay Sultanate and the Sultanate of Palembang in South Sumatra is more influenced by Islamic culture, while Java and Bali will thicker Hindu-Buddhist cultural heritage
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Religion Samawi

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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, such as Christianity and Islam. Currently, Jews numbered more than 13 million people.

Christian (Protestant and Catholic) is a religion that much changed the face of European culture in the last 1,700 years. Thought modern philosophers were much affected by the kind of Christian philosophers St. Thomas Aquinas and Erasmus. It is now estimated there are between 1.5 s.d. 2.1 billion Christians in the world.

Islamic values ​​and religious norms that many cultures influence the Middle East and North Africa, and parts of Southeast Asia. Currently there are more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world.
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Tropical Rain Forest

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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.

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 Tropical rain forests are home to half the species of flora and fauna in the world. Tropical rainforests are also dubbed as the "world's largest pharmacy" because nearly one quarter of modern medicines come from plants in the rainforest.
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Mangrove Forests

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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 salinity, as well as experiencing cycles of tidal inundation by sea water. Only a few species of plants that survive in such a place, and other types are mostly typical of mangrove forests having gone through the process of adaptation and evolution
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Mount Kerinci

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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 2009.
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Mount Batur

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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 there is a crescent-shaped lake that occupies the southeastern part of the length of about 7.5 km, a maximum width of 2.5 km, circumference about 22 km and an area of ​​about 16 km2, which is called Lake Batur. Mount Batur Caldera eruption thought to have formed by two large, 29 300 and 20 150 years ago.
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Mount Rinjani

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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 east
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Baruttung Falls

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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.
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Sedudo Falls

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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 myths that exist since the time of Majapahit, the moon was believed to bring blessings to the young people who bathe in the waterfall.

Every New Year Java, waterfalls Sedudo used for ritual ceremonies, the ritual bathing the statue in Parna Prahista, which is then sprinkled the remaining water to bless it for family safety and youth. Until now the district government Nganjuk routinely perform ritual bath Sedudo every 1st Suro.
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Sanur Beach

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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.
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Batak Culture

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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 policies
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Betawi Culture

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 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 been living in Jakarta, such as Sundanese, Javanese, Arab, Bali, Sumbawa, Ambon, Malay and Chinese. With the increasingly diverse ethnic Betawi, each typically affects every ethnic Betawi ethnic celebrations. As culture ignition fireworks, Lenong, Cokek, to Betawi wedding attire that dominated traditional red, it's all influenced strongly by cultural influence Tionghoa.Kemudian Arabs harp music in color and Tanjidor marawis music. Tanjidor itself is a blend of European culture, Chinese, Malay and Arabic. While in the village is famous for its cultural monument keroncong that rise from Portugis.Salah a typical music of the most famous Betawi arts are xylophone Kromong, where at every opportunity about Betawi, xylophone Kromong always be the most important. Almost every news that aired on television, xylophone Kromong always been a musical illustration.

and many other anrata Betawi culture:
- Lenong
- Ondel-ondel
- Dance Japin
- Tari Betawi Cokek
- Mask Dance betawi
- Dance Lenggang Nyai
- Xylophone Kromong
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Culture China

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Chinese (Hokkien dialect word [], 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 Chinese (Zhonghua or laddie hwa) at least been started since 1880, which is the desire of the people in China to be free from dynastic rule and establish a more democratic country and strong.
The word was first widely introduced by Dr.. Sun Yat-sen, who is the father of the Chinese Revolution to establish the Republic of China (华民国, Zhonghua Minguo) in 1911, after the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. The victory of the Chinese Revolution is to inspire the struggle and national revival in Indonesia. Mao Zedong also continue to use the word Zhonghua People's Republic of China (华人民共和国, Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo) which was proclaimed in 1949.

Talks on Chinese in Indonesia usually includes constellation Chinese people in politics, social and culture in Indonesia. Chinese culture is one of forming an integral and inseparable part of the national culture of Indonesia today. Chinese culture in Indonesia despite the ancestral cultural roots, but it has been very localized and undergo a process of assimilation with other local cultures.

Due to pressure the regime, many of the Chinese people had stripped his real name and use local names, though secretly they wear to events among them. But along with the Reformation, without fear they re-use their Chinese names, although many are reluctant to use it again.
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National Park Takabonerate

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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 marine animals large and rare.
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Residents Takabonerate composed of tribes Makassar, Bugis, and Flores. They generally work as fishermen. It is unfortunate because some of them are looking for fish with extreme ways: using explosives which then destroys coral island in the sea.

Top of the habit, the National Park Takabonerate officials seek to build communication with citizens, especially fishermen, so as not to catch fish by damaging.

Takabonerate is a mainstay of tourism in South Sulawesi. In one island named Tinabo, for example, arousal was tourism. Many inns are established to serve foreign tourists or local.

Now, just how trying to preserve the beaches on the islands Takabonerate district.
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