Javanese Culture Society

The Javanese are the largest ethnic group in Indonesia who came from Central Java, East Java, and Yogyakarta. At least 41.7% of Indonesia's population is ethnically Javanese. In addition to the three provinces, many Javanese living in Lampung, Banten, Jakarta and North Sumatra. In West Java they are found in Indramayu district and Cirebon. Java tribe also has a sub-tribe, such as Osing and Tengger.

Language
Ethnic groups mostly use Java in the Java language spoken daily. In a survey conducted Tempo magazine in the early 1990s, approximately only 12% of people that use Java, the Indonesian language as their language of everyday, around 18% using the Java language and Indonesia are mixed, and the rest just use the Java language course .

Java language has different rules vocabulary and intonation based on the relationship between the speaker and speaker, known as the upload-ungguh. This linguistic aspect has a strong social influence in Javanese culture, and making the Javanese are usually very aware of social status in society.

Trust
Most Javanese are nominally embraced Islam. But there is also a Protestant and Catholic religion. They are also found in rural areas. Buddhists and Hindus also were also found among the Java community. There is also a tribal religious beliefs as a religion of Java, called Javanist. This belief is mainly based on animistic beliefs with the Hindu-Buddhist influence is strong. Java community is famous for its nature of syncretism trust. All foreign cultures are absorbed and interpreted according to the values of Java so trust someone sometimes become blurred.

Art
Javanese culture is famous for his art is mainly influenced by the Hindu-Buddhist religion, which is staging puppet. Repertory puppet story or play is mostly based on Hindu epic Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In addition to Indian influence, the influence of Islam and the Western World there as well. Batik art and kris are two forms of expressions of Javanese society. Gamelan music, which is also found in Bali plays an important role in the life of Javanese culture and tradition.

Festival Gudeg

Manggar Gudeg Festival held at the Hamlet Mangir, Sendangdari Village, Sub-Display, Bantul District, Yogyakarta Special Region as an effort to remind the history of the village.

Gudeg Manggar currently has worldwide had been also made by the villagers Mangir, so that with this festival as an effort to bring back the history of the hamlet Mangir.

In between Gudeg Manggar Festival as well as the launch of history book Hamlet Mangir, Manggar warm festival attended by as many as 25 people gudeg maker Manggar Manggar warm serving dishes with a variety of flavors and presentation.

It is expected that one of them could present allegedly good taste like what people are saying that older people in the village earlier this clever make warm, even from generation to generation,

Manggar gudeg festival is presented by the mother of the household, also in commemoration of Mother's Day which falls on December 22, 2010 is once again showing the role of mother, because the origin of warm Manggar was also initiated by a housewife in this village in former times .


one of these village elders told the origin of warm Manggar in this village that is Princess Pambayun or Nyai Ageng Mangir Wonobudoyo in hundreds of years ago has created a warm Manggar.

According to him, warm Manggar with Virgin raw materials (coconut flowers) instead of the young jackfruit is so tasty that it becomes the main meal the family at that time.

"It is said that sense of warm Manggar mixed with chicken meat seemed to be very typical and nothing else like it, so it is known at the time," he said.

In fact, said he was a famous beauty expert Mooryati Sudibyo gudeg Manggar been popularized throughout the world as a menu of dishes for beauty.

"By eating warm Manggar supposedly someone will become more beautiful and radiant look on his face, or had people say in the Java language" smooth "," he said.

So, he said gudeg Manggar which have existed for hundreds of years ago and has become an icon of cuisine that is able to attract tourists to this country to remind the public that history also comes from Hamlet Mangir

Ayo ke Jogja ( Come to Jogja )

Tens of thousands of people to meet along Jalan Malioboro Yogyakarta Tugu until Sunday morning, to enliven the feast Jogja Yogyakarta City Government held together all elements of society to voice their invitation to come to Yogyakarta (Come to Jogja).

Thousands of people began to meet and also along Jalan Malioboro Mangkubumi since at 06.00 pm, and continue to grow until the main event was held around 07.00 pm.

People who come to the feast of Jogja is also brings with cone that became the main symbol of festivity event, and there is a large cone of the palace that brought soldiers Ngayogyakarta

Cone-foot from the palace, equipped with seven chickens and seven fine vegetables and side dishes are interpreted for the people of Yogyakarta are always given the help and guidance of Almighty God.

Before the banquet held the event, also held a number of activities such as joint exercises that followed thousands of people along Malioboro street because every Sunday, the road is used as a location for the joint exercise by the public.

However, communities are present in Malioboro is not only in the morning gymnastics community, but also from the bike community and the general public who had come to Malioboro with Kraton Jogja wearing traditional dresses.

"Yogyakarta is our Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta and belongs to us all," Herrera said of the community of Yogyakarta, who wore blangkon when giving a speech to invite the whole community to come to Yogyakarta.

He said that along with these activities are expected to voice their message to the entire country and all over the world about Yogyakarta a safe, comfortable and worth visiting.

Safety and comfort of Yogyakarta, he added, is the fact though grieving because of the catastrophic eruption of Mount Merapi, but the condition does not reduce the comfort for anyone who came to Yogyakarta.

Art Parade Post-Borobudur Promote Tourism Merapi eruption

The parade is packed dozens of art artist communities to promote tourism revival Borobudur temple in Magelang regency, Central Java, after the eruption of Mount Merapi. The parade this art as Borobudur temple tourism campaign post-eruption of Merapi.

The parade that starts from the Market Street Pramudya Wardani Borobudur pass in front of the complex of Borobudur Tourism Park (TWCB), Balaputera Gods Road, and ends at the Field tingal, about 500 meters east of the Borobudur Temple.

In a cultural parade accompanied by a number of traditional instruments such as jimbe, kenong, and drums, among others, comes from the Community Artists Borobudur Indonesia (KSBI).

In addition, the Community Artists Mask Saujana Keron, Magelang District, Magelang barongsai art group, Art Gandok Boediarjo Borobudur, Padepokan Wonoseni Bandongan, Magelang regency, and the perpetrators of the Borobudur temple tour.

Borobudur tourist visits dropped dramatically, which in ordinary week more than 10 thousand tourists, this pascaerupsi about 700 tourists, said Umar who was also the local tourism actors and managers Limanjawi Art Gallery of Borobudur.

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Taman Sari Palace

Taman sari palace is situated on the western region is still within the scope of the fortress palace. Park names that define a sari is a very beautiful garden and stunning. Castle is a castle in his time the water that serves as a place of recreation, rest house and the fortress of defense for the Sultan's wife and entire family of the Sultan of Yogyakarta Palace. this is evident from the presence of water complete with a boat, the underground halls, swimming baths and a change of clothes, swimming pool exercises, space for dancing, kitchen and so forth.

This historic building was founded in the mid XVIII century AD and was built in the reign of Sultan Hamengku Buwana I. The place is also known as the Water Castle is currently still a lot left his greatness. It is said that in symbolic garden sari can be interpreted as the interface that are not directly connected and unseen between the sultan and his subjects. In the vicinity of Castle Garden Village is also there as the center of batik batik painting in particular.

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Joglo is Java Traditional House

Joglo is a traditional house of Javanese society. Consisting of 2 main sections namely Pendapa and ndalem. Pendapa this part is the front that have a large room Joglo without barriers, typically used to receive guests or a playroom where children and family leisure. Part palace is part of a room in the house bedroom, living room and other spaces that are more privacy. The characteristics of the building is on the roof towering like a mountain.

Historically, the development of residential Java people can be categorized into 4 types of traditional houses:

* Form Panggangpe
* Kampung form
* Form Limasan
* Form Joglo

Compared to other forms, the house forms known joglo society in general.

Houses Joglo mostly owned by those who can afford. because the house joglo need more material and expensive than other forms of home. Java Community joglo used to think that home should not be owned by any person, by ordinary people, but only allowed for the nobles, kings, and princes, and they are honorable and respectable. But today joglo house also used by all levels of society and also for various other functions, such as conference hall and offices.

Basically house joglo berdenah square shape, with four main pillars in the middle of the call pillars, and is used blandar compound which is called intercropping. This rectangular shape in its development changed with the additions of space on the side of the building but remained a unitary form of a rectangular floor plan.

Padepokan Central Java is a main building Mangkunegaran palace in Surakarta. Houses and palaces in Central Java, usually consisting of 3 rooms. Marquee. Pringgitan, and Dalem.

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Ruwatan

Java is a tradition of ritual Ruwatan as a means of liberation and purification, for the sin / mistakes can impact the expected bad luck in life

The tradition of "ceremonial / ritual Ruwatan" until now still use the java, as a means of liberation and purification of man by sin / mistake that resulted in his misfortune. In the story "puppet" to play in the tradition Ruwatan Murwakala in Java (Central Java) is initially estimated to grow in the ancient Javanese stories, which includes substance purification problem, namely the god of liberation that has been tainted, in order to become pure again, or meruwat means: to overcome or avoiding anything spiritual distress by means of holding the show / ritual with the media shadow play with a theme / story Murwakala.

In Javanese tradition of people whose existence is in sin, to purify again, need to conduct rituals. which becomes the point of view is awareness: the lack of perfect human beings, who are always involved in error and may affect the occurrence of disasters.

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Education
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-Bachelor of Arts Degree, Fine Art/Studio-Painting
-Activities: Art/Design Club, 1994-1996 Men’s Basketball Team

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WARRIOR WARRIOR SERIES WIRABRAJA KRATON YOGYAKARTA

Wirabraja name comes from the word hero means "brave" and braja means 'sharp', both words originated from Sanskrit. Wirabraja philosophically meaningful a very brave soldier in the fight against the enemy and five senses sharp and sensitive. In every situation he will always be sensitive. In defending the truth he would never surrender, never retreat before the enemy can be defeated. With a name from the ancient Sanskrit philosophical content of its meaning is expected to have a magical power that gave life to all members of this army.

Structure soldiers
Consisting of two people banner (Panji command was in front and behind Andhahan Bannerman), two sergeants person / Wirowredha (Sarageni sergeant and Sergeant Sarahastra), two men carrying the banner, soldiers carrying rifles and spears armor.

Sarageni soldiers are soldiers carrying guns, while soldiers Sarahastra are soldiers who were carrying spears.

Panji-Panji :

1. Name Dwaja (klebet): Sugar-klapa
Rectangular with a white base color, in every corner decorated with red centhung like chili tip (nail Bima). In the middle was a red rectangle in the middle is octagonal white. Sugar-klapa derived from the word 'sugar' and 'klapa'. The definition is here made of Java sugar sap of the red palm tree, while coconut is white. Philosophically meaningful brave troops who defend the sanctity / the truth.


2. Spear Name (Waos): Kanjeng Kyai Kyai Slamet and Kanjeng Santrio, dhapur Cengkreng.
Instrument
2 Drums (drums) is held by M. (Mas) and M Brajatengara Brajapenambur, and two flutes are held by M. Brajapermuni and M Braja Pengrawit

Accompaniment

Gending accompaniment is twofold: first RETA Dhedali to accompany lampah / step macak (style) and Dhayungan to accompany the fast step (mars).

source: http://pariwisata.jogja.go.id

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Java language

Java language is the language of the tribes of the population, especially in some parts of Java, Banten, especially the town of Serang, Serang district, the city of Cilegon and Tangerang regency, West Java, particularly the north coast region extends from the northern coast of Karawang, Subang, Indramayu, Cirebon district and Cirebon city, Yogyakarta, Central Java and East Java in Indonesia.

Java Language Spread

Java residents who migrate to Malaysia successfully brought into the Javanese language and culture of Malaysia, so there are residential areas they are known by the name of the village of Java, Java field. In addition, people who use the Java language is also distributed in various parts of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia. Regions outside Java, the Javanese-dominated or in a significant percentage are: Lampung (61.9%), North Sumatra (32.6%), Jambi (27.6%), South Sumatra (27%). Special Java community in North Sumatra, they are the descendants of contract laborers who are employed in different areas of tobacco plantations, particularly in the Deli, so often referred to as Java or Pujakesuma Deli (Son Java Sumatra births). While Java community in other areas which are transmitted through the transmigration program was held since the Dutch colonial era.

In addition to the Nusantara region, or Malaysia. Javanese society is also found in large numbers in Suriname, which reached 15% of the population as a whole, then in New Caledonia region even Aruba and Curacao and the Netherlands. A small percentage even spread to the territory of French Guiana and Venezuela.

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Broadway

Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush land of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants. This trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island. Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail soon became the main road through the island from Nieuw Amsterdam at the southern tip. The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642. The Dutch named the road "Heerestraat". In the mid-eighteenth century, part of Broadway in what is now lower Manhattan was known as Great George Street. In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town commons north of Wall Street, where Eastern Post Road continued through the East Side and Bloomingdale Road the west side of the island. In the late 19th century the widened and paved part of Bloomingdale Road north of Columbus Circle was called "The Boulevard" but on February 14, 1899 the name "Broadway" was extended to the whole old road.



Broadway runs the length of Manhattan Island, from Bowling Green at the south, to Inwood at the northern tip of the island. South of Columbus Circle, it is a one-way southbound street. Starting in 2009, vehicular traffic is banned at Times Square between 47th and 42nd Streets, and at Herald Square between 35th and 33rd Streets as part of a pilot program; the right-of-way is intact and reserved for cyclists and pedestrians. From the northern shore of Manhattan, Broadway crosses Spuyten Duyvil Creek via the Broadway Bridge and continues through Marble Hill and the Bronx into Westchester County.



Broadway was once a two-way street for its entire length. The present status, in which it runs one-way southbound south of Columbus Circle, came about in several stages. First, on June 6, 1954, Seventh Avenue became southbound and Eighth Avenue became northbound south of Broadway. None of Broadway became one-way, but the increased southbound traffic between Columbus Circle and Times Square caused the city to restripe that section of Broadway for four southbound and two northbound lanes. Broadway became one-way from Columbus Circle south to Herald Square on March 10, 1957, in conjunction with Sixth Avenue becoming one-way from Herald Square north to 59th Street and Seventh Avenue becoming one-way from 59th Street south to Times Square. On June 3, 1962, Broadway became one-way south of Canal Street, with Trinity Place and Church Street carrying northbound traffic. Another change was made on November 10, 1963, when Broadway became one-way southbound from Herald Square to Madison Square and Union Square to Canal Street, and two routes - Sixth Avenue south of Herald Square and Centre Street, Lafayette Street, and Fourth Avenue south of Union Square - became one-way northbound.

Times Square (III)

The theaters of Broadway and the huge number of animated neon and LED signs have long made them one of New York's iconic images, and a symbol of the intensely urban aspects of Manhattan. Times Square is the only neighborhood with zoning ordinances requiring building owners to display illuminated signs. The density of illuminated signs in Times Square now rivals that of Las Vegas. Officially, signs in Times Square are called "spectaculars", and the largest of them are called "jumbotrons."
Notable signage includes the Toshiba billboard directly under the NYE ball drop and the curved seven-story NASDAQ sign at the NASDAQ MarketSite at 4 Times Square on 43rd Street and the curved Coca-Cola sign located underneath another large LED display owned and operated by Samsung. Both the Coca-Cola sign and Samsung LED displays were built by LED display manufacturer Daktronics. Times Square's first environmentally friendly billboard powered by wind and solar energy was first lit on December 4, 2008.
In 1992, the Times Square Alliance, a coalition of city government and local businesses dedicated to improving the quality of commerce and cleanliness in the district, started operations in the area. Times Square now boasts attractions such as ABC's Times Square Studios, where Good Morning America is broadcast live, an elaborate Toys "Я" Us store, and competing Hershey's and M&M's stores across the street from each other, as well as restaurants such as Ruby Foo's, the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Planet Hollywood Restaurant and Bar and Carmine's along with a number of multiplex movie theaters. It has also attracted a number of large financial, publishing, and media firms to set up headquarters in the area. A larger presence of police has improved the safety of the area.
In 2002, New York City's mayor, Rudy Giuliani, gave the oath of office to the city's next mayor, Michael Bloomberg, at Times Square after midnight on January 1 as part of the 2001–2002 New Year's celebration. Approximately 500,000 revelers attended. Security was high following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with more than 7,000 New York City police on duty in the Square, twice the number for an ordinary year.
From August 14, 2003 to August 15, 2003, the lights of Times Square went dark as a result of the 2003 Northeast blackout, which paralyzed most of the region and parts of Canada for over 24 hours. Power was finally restored to the area on the evening of Friday, August 15.



On February 26, 2009, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that traffic lanes along Broadway from 42nd Street to 47th Street would be de-mapped starting Memorial Day 2009 and transformed into pedestrian plazas until at least the end of the year as a trial. The same was done from 33rd to 35th Street. The goal is to ease traffic congestion throughout the Midtown grid. The results will be closely monitored to determine if the project works and should be extended." Bloomberg also stated " he believes the street shutdown will make New York more livable by reducing pollution, cutting down on pedestrian accidents and helping traffic flow more smoothly."
The original seats put out for pedestrians were inexpensive multicolored plastic lawn chairs, a source of amusement to many New Yorkers. They lasted from the onset of the plaza transformation until August 14, 2009, when they were ceremoniously bundled together in an installation christened "Now You See It, Now You Don't" by the artist Jason Peters. They were shortly replaced by sturdier metal furniture, and on February 11, 2010, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the pedestrian plazas would remain permanent.

Times Square (II)

Before and after the American Revolution, the area belonged to John Morin Scott, a general of the New York militia where he served under George Washington. Scott's Manor House was at what is now 43rd Street, surrounded by countryside used for farming and breeding horses. In the first half of the 19th century it became one of the prized possessions of John Jacob Astor, who made a second fortune selling off lots to hotels and other real estate concerns as the city rapidly spread uptown.
In 1904, New York Times publisher Adolph S. Ochs moved the newspaper's operations to a new skyscraper on 42nd Street at Longacre Square. Ochs persuaded Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. to construct a subway station there, and the area was renamed "Times Square" on April 8, 1904. Just three weeks later, the first electrified advertisement appeared on the side of a bank at the corner of 46th Street and Broadway.
The New York Times, according to Nolan, moved to more spacious offices across Broadway in 1913. The old Times Building was later named the Allied Chemical Building. Now known simply as One Times Square, it is famed for the Times Square Ball drop on its roof every New Year's Eve.
Also in 1913, the Lincoln Highway Association, headed by entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, chose the intersection of 42nd Street and Broadway, at the southeast corner of Times Square, to be the Eastern Terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America, which originally spanned 3,389 miles coast-to-coast through 13 states to its Western Terminus in Lincoln Park in San Francisco, California.
As the growth in New York City continued, Times Square quickly became a cultural hub full of theaters, music halls, and upscale hotels.

Times Square (I)

Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, a borough of New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The Times Square area consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.
Formerly named Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed after the Times Building in April 1904. Times Square, nicknamed "The Crossroads of the World," has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and has become a symbol of New York City. Times Square is principally defined by its spectaculars, animated, digital advertisements.
The intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street, at the south-east corner of Times Square, is the Eastern Terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States of America.