Night Market Opening Celebration Sekaten 2011

During the opening ceremony of the Night Market Sekaten Celebration 2011, Friday (7 / 1), access to the Yogyakarta Kilometer Zero Point will be closed about 4.5 hours starting at 13:30 am until 18:00 pm.

"During the opening ceremony held Sekaten Celebration Night Market, access to the Kilometer Zero Point will be closed in full since at 13:30 pm and before 06.00 pm since the system will be open and closed," said Coordinator Sexy Night Market Opening Ceremony Celebration 2011 Sekaten Revelation Hendratmoko in Yogyakarta Thursday (6 / 1).

According to Revelation, closing access to the Kilometer Zero will start from the intersection of four Gondomanan, so that all vehicles will be directed to the north, south or east, while at the intersection of three PKU Muhammadiyah, traffic flow will be directed to the Road Bhayangkara.

Meanwhile, at the intersection of three Ngejaman, all traffic will be directed towards Reksobayan Road.

"All the road closure permit in the area of Kilometer Zero Point was approved by the Operations Section of Yogyakarta Police," he said.

He also said the opening ceremony Sekaten Celebration Night Market 2011 will be attended by a number Muspida Provincial DIY, Muspida city of Yogyakarta and Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono (HB) X along with GKR Hemas.

"There are about 220 invited guests and the public expected to attend the opening," he said.

It has provided a number of bags of parking, as in Senopati, Bank Indonesia, Post Office, Church Gondomanan front, and on Jalan KH Ahmad Dahlan.

At the opening ceremony will also be displayed themed ballet performances of understanding of cultural heterogeneity of society who will be played about 145 artists from the Studio Art Semekar.

It also will launch a book on the history of the implementation of the Fair Celebration Sekaten from year to year. Yogyakarta Mayor Herry Zudianto planned to submit a book that is an official document implementation Sekaten Celebration Night Market to the Sri Sultan HB X

"The event will end with the opening of the Sultan's visit to a number of existing booth at Market Night Celebration Sekaten," he continued.

Sekaten Celebration Night Market 2011 will be held for 40 days from January 7 to 15 February, with Rp 2,000 per visitor admission on weekdays and Rp 3,000 per visitor over the weekend.

In addition to the night market, Pasar Malam Celebration Sekaten also coupled with cultural activity that is Miyos Gongso on February 9, Dann Kondur Gangsa on 15 February.

The whole series Sekaten Celebration Night Market will be closed with Gerebeg Maulud on February 16 Bedhol Songsong morning and at night at Exhibition Palace Ngayogyakarta.

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

Grebeg Sekaten Year Dal

Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat prepare special seven mountains to enliven Grebeg Dal Sekaten year (calculations based on calendar year Java) or a plan in 2010 which was held on Friday, February 26, 2010

Usually only five mountains on each Grebeg Sekaten, two Mount Question mount Princess, Mount Gepak and Pawuhan, but because this year is a year-Dal, the amount of the special mountains there are seven mountains.

Two additional mountains to be issued in the palace sekaten year is Mount Dharat Dal, and the most special is Mount Bromo.

Bromo mound should not be contested by people, and must be returned in full to the state court, after being paraded and pray in the mosque Gedhe, in Kauman, City of Yogyakarta. This is a tough task for the soldiers who carried the palace Mount Bromo, because they really have an obligation to guard and maintain the mountains

In addition to being carried or brought to Gedhe Mosque, one of the two was taken to Mount Question Pura (palace) Pakualaman, also up for grabs by the public after the prayer.

In addition to Mount Bromo, the other features on Grebeg sekaten year celebration is the procession Dal making lump of rice made the Sultan Hamengkubuwono (HB) X. Rice is taken from a container called Kanjeng Mrico Nyai, then distributed to anyone present at the event.

One week before Grebeg held, the palace has hosted the ceremony Ngayogyakarta Miyos Gongso, namely Nogo out Wilogo gamelan Kyai Guntur Madu and Kyai on February 19, and ending with Kondur gongso or re-entry into the palace gamelan on February 25. Both the orchestra is placed in the mosque Gedhe and struck for a week, except on Thursday afternoon until Friday afternoon.

Before Kondur Gongso, Sri Sultan HB X-udhik will spread udhik namely yellow rice and some coins in Gedhe Mosque, followed by the reading of history or the history of Prophet Muhammad. After that followed by kicking the mosque compound walls, or a trail known as the procession of the wall.

"Bekakak Saparan" Ceremony in Sleman

Started the year 2010, the district of Sleman, Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY), re-presented 3 (three) custom ceremony which is one of cultural assets and tourism that many look forward to the community and tourists from various regions. One was the traditional ceremony Saparan Bekakak

Bekakak Saparan ceremonies in Sleman District, Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY), enlivened by cultural carnival featuring a variety of potential and traditional arts

Cultural parade along the path 4 (four) miles from the Village Hall to Mount Gamping Ambarketawang as bekakak slaughtering. Bekakak Saparan a major cultural events, and even have national repercussions, so his presence really look forward to people of Yogyakarta and surrounding areas by both domestic and foreign tourists who were in Yogyakarta.

Bekakak Saparan ceremony in Sleman is a traditional event conducted once every single year. This traditional ceremony is a strategic arena for the revitalization, preservation and increase public appreciation of national culture and be able to be the glue in the context of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia (NKRI)