Taman Sari, a Sacred Royal Concubine Baths

Some time after the occurrence of the Agreement Giyanti, Prince Mangkubumi and his troops built a palace which served as the hub of all activities in the Sultanate Ngayogyakarta. The prince who had built a palace Sultanate later named the first Sultan Hamengku Buono. Construction of the palace were obtained from the revelation when the Emperor meditated on the slopes of Mount Merapi got a clue to build the Palace in a straight line from Mount Merapi and Parangtritis Beach. Kraton should be centered between the two points. Construction of the palace itself rests on a spring that is located between the two points of the volcano and beach Parangtritis. All that made ​​the sultan aims to honor and felicitate the services sultana who have sacrificed and helped during the war. Construction of the palace garden sari is handed over to an architect who had Portuguese nationality by a foreman held by a regent from madiun. Palace garden sari is placed not far from the palace is the center of all the activities and aims to be the daughter who wanted purification unnecessary journey designed jauh.Istana surrounded by an artificial lake that takes away from the fountain, in addition there is also growing a wide range of plant flowers to beautify the appearance of the garden sari.
In the park there are some gate sari specially designed untu the sultan. There are several gates that have different functions such as stage gate. This gate is one of the favorites of the sultan gate because this place accompanied by the wife of the sultan could watch some of the performing arts such as dance area. High arch shape makes it easy to watch the dancers sultan who are under the charming dance movement. Not far from where the dancers in center, hand side is for all instruments and players. By the middle of the field that resembles the embryo of a building used as a stage where the dancers perform a dance show in action. From the gate, we can go deeper into the permission of the park caretaker juice there we will find a place that once only the sultan and his family are allowed to enter. The place was a bathing pool, surrounded by a few showers with clear water first sultana gathered for ritual bathing. Pond clear and studded with a variety of flowers to be one of his favorite wife. Pond inside the palace is divided into three sections. The function of each's piece different from each other. The third part is Kawitan Bannerman, swimming should only be entered by the sons and daughters of the king. The second is Pamuncar Bannerman, Pool is dedicated exclusively to the concubines because it helps when doing peperanga. And the last is to be used as Bannerman Panguras special baths for the king alone. If you want to see and watch kemegahaan Taman Sari Palace, you can directly visit in Yogyakarta.

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In the United States 5000 Traditional Indonesian Angklung Played - Miss Universe Playing Angklung - Break World Record

One more musical instruments owned by Indonesia which was worldwide and even had a record of overseas. Angklung, Musical instruments from Java island has a unique voice and is very beautiful and convenient to be heard. Whole artists who play this instrument will feel extraordinary calmness, karenan chanting sound of it is so soft and sweet. Instruments typical of the area of Java has an interesting shape and very simpler, whose composition is largely derived from bamboo strips are arranged in parallel and given a touch in order to have a harmonious tone and voice to be heard. With this parallel form would facilitate actors or players easily play these instruments as well as save the venue. Musical instrument usually played together in large groups often combined with some other traditional musical instruments to produce an attractive and have a harmony with the song that brought.
Some tourists are very interested to learn in order to master the instrument is derived from Java. As performed by the daughter of Indonesia who visited in the U.S. for the promotion of culture of Indonesia. They play a musical instrument angklung with some of the united states, amounting to five thousand people play angklung together and accompanied by other traditional musical instruments. The incident was a big moment for the Indonesian nation since the same time in the museum world record record record record books as new to the game of traditional music with the most participants. Besides the daughter of Indonesia and the United States who participated, there is one of the famous Indonesian artists Dewi sandra. Dewi Sandra was very proud to be Indonesian citizens who have outstanding cultural, He was deeply interested in the event's world record. Even he admitted more eager to develop and promote the culture of Indonesia owned by others in order to become better known by other nations around the world.
It can not be denied that the Indonesian archipelago which has the structure will result in the diversity of different cultures and art. Thus there will be more culture to be learned and developed even promoted to attract tourists to visit Indonesia and feel safe in Indonesia. It would be beneficial for the Indonesian nation to increase and become rich in the developed world and a global tourism. Some are mandatory and must be citizens of Indonesia are known as Indonesia is a rich country, rich in both culture and tourism. As good citizens we should and must be to maintain and develop the potential to become more developed countries. In addition to all the citizens of the participating countries we should use existing media to further promote and introduce us to the culture and tourism have all become global as well as being a valuable state assets. Some other art can be viewed and studied as an accompanying instrument angklung gamelan music during performances. Gamelan is a musical instrument that can not be released if it is to perform arts angklung. gamelan must participate in order to produce a more beautiful tone and rhythmic

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Corpcircel many discoveries in papua papua turns traditional house that resembles an alien UFO plane

Various forms of traditional houses that varied in Indonesia is very interesting in learning. From the shape and materials for its construction is very unique and different. I will discuss a simple form of a unique home for a comfortable and nyamam. . take the concept of tribal forms of home called home dipapua Hanoi. architecture that is very thick and took this all the ingredients from nature. from roof to foundation. we just discussed more fully

In the area of ​​Wamena, Papua, there are the traditional architectural style is so well known, namely honai. Houses typical Papuan society is circular, made of wood and thatched straw or reeds. One family can have some honai that assemble into a wooden fence and bounded around. Each house lives a man and his wife and their children.
Traditional house that has a small door and low and did not have windows as air ventilation ducts. Construction thus created with the purpose to withstand the cold mountains of Papua. Traditional house structure is composed of two floors. Ground floor as a bed and a second floor for a place to relax, eat, and do crafts. Because it was built two floors, tall houses reach about 2.5 meters. At the center of the house prepared to make a bonfire to warm themselves as well as a place to cook.
Honai architectural style does have many particularities as a manifestation of a way of looking at the previous architect, understand, and make it happen by relying on material that is simple and very natural. Exploration was made in such material effectively and economically, without reducing the quality and functional value bangunan.lik, i get into this honai, darkness accompanied by a sense of warmth immediately ambushed. Because, in space there is no single window, there is only one door.
At night, residents use firewood for lighting and warm the body. Typically, as bedding residents in Wamena using dry grass that is replaced periodically
Jakarta, VOI Features - Traditional Houses society namely Honai Wamena in Papua. To find out how the shape Houses Honai, Jayawijaya in Wamena, Papua. Well, to get to Wamena, you can depart from Jakarta by plane for

Jayapura. The journey from Jakarta to Jayapura for about seven hours after the transit in Makassar. After arriving in Jayapura, the journey continues back toward the area in Wamena regency Jayawijaya by using a small airplane or a twin otter. Arriving in Wamena, you can find a house in the lush Honai in Wamena.
       When visiting a village in Wamena, you can see some fruit Honai. The shape and size of each Honai it looks the same. From ground level, achieving high Honai house about 2 feet. Home made circular shape and has only one door into its own characteristics of Honai. Building a house is made of wood and roof made of reeds strung together in such a way that it looked multilevel .
In Wamena, there are several types of houses like Honai Honai specifically designed for men and for women Honai called Ebei. Usually, in the village of Wamena, Wamena in the township number Ebei relatively more when compared with the number Honai for men. That said, the men of Papua, has more than one wife is one of reasonableness. For them, the number of wives symbolize the triumph of man in Papua. To prove the triumph, they typically make one Ebei to one wife only. If you have more than one wife, then the number Ebei nor more than one.

       Inside the house Honai or Ebei, look no single household. Honai indeed be a home for people in the township Wamena. But for the beds, they only use dry grass as the base. Alas it will be replaced with new grass taken from the field or garden, if you've seen dirty. Inside Honai also no chairs or tables, they make the floor of the house terbuah of soil as a cushion.

Inside the house Honai also no electric lights. For lighting, they make fire by digging the soil in the bottom floor of the house to be a furnace. Because Honai has no windows and illumination only from the fire, the atmosphere in the house will feel more and more dark when night falls.
       When compared with a traditional house in another area, Hanoi house looks very simple. But simplicity is what makes a unique impression of Hanoi. Now the listener, what you are getting interested to see up close how the shape of Hanoi

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Uniqueness of Houses in Indonesia.Home Architecture Gadang Meadow West Sumatra

Another the uniqueness of Indonesia, now is not art or culture but rather typical of custom homes in the area of ​​Indonesia. unique shape make this house a distinctive charm to attract tourists. form a unique and comfortable place to make tourists feel at home in Indonesia inhabit

Bergonjong roof has probably become the traditional architectural elements of the most popular throughout Indonesia, in addition to joglo. In almost all cities, we can find the model of traditional Minangkabau roof shaped like a buffalo horn is pointy.When the local architectural elements began to fade, the rampant use of the roof elements is interesting to observe bergonjong. If the building joglo-traditional Javanese architecture, became popular because there jawanisasi on government buildings in the New Order era, popular bergonjong roof over the restaurant field carried by the Minangkabau (Minang) overseas.As written by Hans-Dieter Evers and Rudiger Korff in his book Urbanism in Southeast Asia (2002), this bergonjong roof on the house was used only in highlands gadang Minangkabau. Never found in the coastal areas, especially in cities. Padang community located on the coast has its own type of traditional house, made of wood with spacious front porch and the roof straight (not bergonjong).But since the 1980s, government buildings in the center of government of West Sumatra was designed using a roof bergonjong. The investors who often become government partners are also asked to wear bergonjong roof on the building. Appeal on the use bergonjong roof was originally done by the Governor Aaron Zein in the era of the 1970s until the 1980s, with a passion for preserving traditional architecture.Now, almost all elements of urban buildings in Padang, such as government offices, post offices, hotels, and government banks or private, use a roof bergonjong race, except the mosque that almost no one wore bergonjong model.Outside of West Sumatra, bergonjong roof model was popularized by the 

Minang people who wander in various cities of Indonesia, especially the open food stalls. In fact, up to foreign countries like Malaysia and Singapore though, the roof bergonjong characterizes desert diner-popular designation for the Minang.Hans-Dieter Evers and Rudiger Korff noted, each of the buildings built by man has a "meaning" and therefore he is a symbol. In this case, the roof bergonjong has become a symbol of the existence or identity of the Minang people. For example, with a glimpse of the roof bergonjong at a diner, people immediately know that it's the restaurant field.However, a question mark when the building joglo appear on government buildings in the outposts outside Java. Is there, it could signal the presence joglo Javanese or at least understand the meaning joglo in the tradition of leadership in Java?Plagiarized or find?Efforts to establish the identity of the Minangkabau roof bergonjong only just actually too simplistic wealth gadang architecture of the house, because the typical home gadang actually not only on its roof.Jacques Dumarçay in his book The House in South East Asia (1987) categorized his house or houses gadang Minangkabau (large) as part of the architecture of Dong Son (Vietnam). The roof of the house is usually composed of five layers or bergonjong limo, each interlocked. The walls were usually carved motif typical flora.Moreover, the space division system is also unique and a representation for the system of matrilineal Minangkabau culture. Gadang house serves as a large family residence and activity center of the blood and the collateral of the matrilineal relatives (mother of the family or elders), both for economic and social activities and cultural activities. Gadang home headed by a tungganai (mamak) and as a condition for the establishment of a village in Minangkabau.While it may succeed to the identity of the Minangkabau in the overseas, roof bergonjong used everywhere it's actually just duplicate the traditional forms into modern buildings. Duplication caused by stagnant realm of transformation from traditional to modern designs.Realm of architecture familiar with the term hybridization, or the incorporation of elements of architectural form-usually from a number of elements of different cultures and eras. Henri Maclaine-Pont is a Dutch architect working in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) in the first half of the 20th century-the most famous in hybridization efforts in the form of architectural heritage of the archipelago. He combines the shape and construction of Javanese and Balinese architecture with colonial architecture.One of Pont's work is the Hall Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) in Bandung, which is still the most interesting part of this campus. In this work, Pont did not merely reproduce the roof joglo Javanese or Balinese bale. However, he managed to create buildings that fit comfortably the tropical climate and creating a new image of architecture Indies. 

Pont began the project by reviewing building construction system in Java, then filed their own opinions about the construction system according to the values ​​of modern technological. Based on this study explored the possibility of developing Pont Java system construction to accommodate the functions of the new building, the scale of new activities and new production methods.Pont did not escape the criticism. One criticism of him is the model that assessed pengkajiannya rely only on the shape and construction systems, thus ignoring the value of space itself.However, Pont has begun to make traditional architecture as an open text to be reviewed and interpreted in accordance with modern demands and environmental conditions. Of course, we do not want to just cheat on texts that have been there right?

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Joglo, Traditional House Yogyakarta, International Model

Indonesia is very rich in culture and tradition. From very diverse sights to customary unique. We as citizens of Indonesia should be proud with what we have. In addition to those mentioned above, Indonesia also has some uniqueness and diversity of peoples who owned their homes - each region. One of the houses that can be said is a unique and exciting custom home community in particular is a region in Java and Yogyakarta Istimewah. The house which is called by the people of Yogyakarta Joglo has some uniqueness. One that can be seen is an interesting architectural style. Joglo house can be called Traditional House with Interior International.
The house is in the past is the only luxury home owned by people's who have abundant wealth. Kraton itself also has a similar structure at the forefront in the area of ​​the palace. The house was used as a palace hall officials to discuss a problem of the palace.
Due to several factors such as any property can come in and fit in this house.
Besides the above there is a unique construction of this house, the shape of the building which is usually a square with a triangle roof designed to be very simple and do not use nails for building amplifier. Which serves as a reinforcement buildings here are a few pieces of wood that formed lengthwise and put in the connection - the connection as a wooden peg. With the condition of the traditional but has a more modern style, many employers residential or hospitality construction building of joglo modeled to attract tourists. In addition to eco-friendly home has interior International joglo this seemed to be genuine. For those of you who inhabit it would seem to be a traditional diperkampungan comfortable and quiet.
While the rectangular shape of the building makes joglo has poles are 4 pieces. The house usually has two parts namely the inside and outside. In the section which has a more closed than the outside serves as a place to live, while for parts that are not walled patio often functioned as a hall or gathering place as well as important meetings held by the homeowner. For the spatial section home page usually has several pages joglo wide and blanks to work as a park. It aims to enhance the appearance of the house to make it more natural and comfortable to live

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