Tag: Central Java

Brebes Regency

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Brebes Brebes is a regency in the northwestern part of Central Java province in Indonesia. The capital is Brebes. Brebes is best known for its shalot and Salted duck egg or Telur Asin, and gains the title of Kota Telur Asin in Indonesia (Salted egg City), salted egg sold aside Jalur Pantai Utara. Another popular cuisine is Sate Blengong and Peuyeum Ketan from Salem, one of 17 Sub-District in Brebes. Brebes people are mostly using Javanese language in daily spoken, it usually called the Java Language Brebes. But there is…

Boyolali Regency

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Boyolali Boyolali, is one of regencies in Central Java with the capital of the same city. Located in 25 Km on western Surakarta. This regency is bounded with Grobogan regency in north, Sragen regency, Karanganyar regency and Surakarta in east. Klaten regency in south, Magelang regency and Semarang regency in west. Boyolali is known as the city of milk, because it is one of the largest centers of fresh cow milk producer in Central Java. The dairy cattle are generally located in the south and highland cold valve, because the…

Blora Regency

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Blora Blora regency is a district in Central Java Province. The capital is Blora, about 127 km east of Semarang. Being in the eastern part of Central Java, Blora district directly near to the East Java Province. This district is bordered with Pati and Rembang and in the north, and Bojonegoro and Tuban (East Java) in the east, Ngawi District (East Java) in the south, and Grobogan district in west. Agriculture is the main economic sector in Blora. In the forestry sub-sector, Blora is one of the major regional producer…

Banyumas Regency

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Banyumas Banyumas or “Banjoemas” is a regency in the southwestern part of Central Java province and the capital is Purwokerto. The term Banyumasan is also used as an adjective referring to the culture, language and peoples of larger Banyumas area. The language of Banyumasan are of Austronesian origin, and is usually considered to be a dialect of Javanese, but significantly different with common Java language, it been called as Ngapak Language. Banyumas regency was born in April, 6 1582. The first founder was Raden Joko Kahiman then inaugurated by the…

The Exotic Banjarnegara

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Banjarnegara Banjarnegara is a regency and the capital of the same city, located in the southwestern part of Central Java. It is 55km from the Dieng Plateau region and a centre for ceramic arts. This regency is bounded to Pekalongan regency and Batang regency in North, Wonosobo regency in East, Kebumen in South and Banyumas and Purbalingga in the West. Geographically, this regency is divided into 3 parts of landscape, which is: North Zone, is a mountainous region that is part of the Dieng Plateau, North Serayu Mountains. This area…

Javanese Greetings

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Javanese People Javanese are native people of Indonesia Java Island. Javanese people are the largest ethnic group who stands in Indonesia society for over 90 million people who spread in all over area in Indonesia. Formerly, Javanese people are being concentrated only on East Java, Central Java and Yogyakarta. but due to migration within Indonesia, there are now high populations of Javanese people in almost all the Indonesian provinces. Javanese people use Javanese language in daily speaks. The language from each part of Java area having their own dialects. Between…

The Heaven Stairs

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Borobudur Borobudur is a ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist temple. It always get mistaken that it located in Jogjakarta. In fact, it located on Magelang, Central Java. The monument is consist of six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The main dome is located at the center of the top platform, which is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues seated inside perforated stupa. Borobudur is a ten-story temple which clearly illustrates the Mahayana philosophy. Like the holy book, Borobudur describes ten…

Surakarta, Where The Culture Hold The Ancient Heritage

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Surakarta Surakarta Hadiningrat, popularly named as Solo is one of famous city in Central Java after Yogyakarta and Semarang. In fact, Solo is located in 65KM northeast of Jogjakarta and 100KM southeast of Semarang. Solo is lying along the longest and the most fertile river in Java, Bengawan Solo or Solo River and set aside between hugest mountain volcanoes Merapi and Merbabu in the north, and mount Lawu in the southeast border. Solo is approximately with the Javanese culture and tradition after Jogjakarta. The ancient history of Solo dates back…

Magelang, Where The Borobudur Lays

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Magelang Magelang is one of significant city in Central Java. People sometimes get misunderstanding about this place of Borobudur, they usualy acknowledge that Borobudur is settled on Jogjakarta, otherwise it is on Magelang. Magelang is located on strategic area between Semarang-Jogjakarta, which is 75 km to the South of Semarang and 43 km to the North Jogjakarta. Dates back to the past, it was known that Magelang was build on April 11 907 Century. The early history told that Magelang was a village named “Mantyasih“ which is now being called…

Semarang, A Bowl Of Diversities

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Semarang Semarang, this capital city of Central Java Province is such an old city that remain the long ancient history regarding the tragedy and the way of living from the inhabitant. Semarang at early begin dates back on 8th Century when it was named as Bergota. By the end of fifteenth century, a Javanese Islamic missionary from nearby Sultanate of Demak with the name of Made Pandan Prince. There was an infrequent Tamarind Tree, in Javanese language means Asem Arang. Thus, from that tamarin tree, Semarang city was born, taken…