Tag: Indonesia Tourism

Raja Ampat, Paradise Is Here

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Raja Ampat Raja Ampat is regency that located in tip of Bird’s Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia’s West Papua province. Raja Ampat has 610 islands, which is only 35 islands that have been inhabited, the rest are inhabited and even nameless. The famous islands in Raja Ampat are Misool island, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo island. The inhabitant of Raja Ampat Islands are generally traditional fishermen who resided in small villages which are located far apart and in different islands. They are such a friendly community…

Palembang, City Of Million Charm

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Palembang Palembang city, is one of Indonesia largest city in Sumatra island after Medan city and officially the capital of South Sumatra province. Palembang was formerly known as the capital city of the ancient Kingdom of Srivijaya before it went to Jambi. As we know that Srivijaya or Sriwijaya was a powerful ancient Malay kingdom on the island of Sumatra. Palembang is considered as the eldest city in Indonesia based on the inscription of Kedukan Bukit, which stated about the establishment of the city and the capital of Sriwijaya kingdom…

Medan And Everything In It

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Medan City of Medan, it is officially the capital of South Sumatra province. Medan is the largest fourth city after Jakarta, Surabaya and Bandung. Dated back to the early history, Medan was early build by Guru Patimpus Sembiring Pelawi in 1590. It was firstly found by European man named John Anderson who came to the city name Medan with total inhabitant around 200 people, and it was considered as the place of Sultan of Deli. In 1883, Medan became a significant city outside Java, after the colonial government had started…

Way Kambas National Park, The Home For The Elephants

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Way Kambas Way Kambas National Park is located in Lampung province, South Sumatra, Indonesia. This national Park is consist of forest and preservation for Sumatran tigers and elephant sanctuary. This park also become a breeding center or Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (SRS) that has been build up in 1995. Way Kambas National Park is a representative of the lowland forest ecosystem consisting of freshwater swamp forest, meadow grass, and coastal forests in Sumatra. Plant species that grow in this national park are, api-api (Avicennia marina), Sonneratia (Sonneratia sp.), Palm (Nypa fruticans),…

Bunaken The Sea Paradise

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Bunaken Bunaken is an island, formerly part of Manado bay, is norther part of Sulawesi province, Indonesia. The visitors can reach Bunaken by speed boat abour 30 minutes from Manado sea port. Around the Bunaken Island, there is Bunaken Sea Garden which is part of Bunaken National Park. Overall, Bunaken is covers an area of 75,265 hectares with five islands within, which is the island of Manado Tua, Bunaken Island, Siladen Island, Mantehage Island island and the branch of it, Naen Island. Bunaken marine park has 20 points dive spot…

The Manificent Asmat People

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Asmat People Asmat tribe is one of Indonesian indigenous tribe that live in New Guinea, part of Papua province. The population of Asmat people is divided into two areas, those who are live in coastal area and rural area. Those two groups are very different one and another, in case of the dialect, the way of living, social structure and ritual. The population of the coastal group are then divided into two sub ethnic groups, which is Bisman people who live in Sinesty River and Nin Rirver, also the group…

Nias People And The Way They Upholding The Cultural Heritage

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Nias Nias is another Indonesian ethnic group that live in North Sumatra, formerly in Nias Island. Nias island is one of significant island for tourism destination relating with its surfing spot, Nias traditional house and a famous Lompat Batu Nias or stone jumping initiation. Nias people call themselves as “Ono Niha”. Ono means an offspring, Niha means human, and Nias Island as “Tanö Niha”, which Tano is land. We can predict this etymology as human offspring that live on earth. Nias People, until this day, is still living under the…

Minangkabau And Their Philosophy

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Minangkabau Minangkabau ethnic group is one of Indonesian tribe who live on highland of West Sumatra, Indonesia. They usually being called as Orang Padang. In vice versa with Batak ethnic group, Minangkabau is formed under matrilineal culture in term of marriage, inheritance and the way of living and they are the largest matrilineal society in the world. Dates back to the history, Minangkabau was come from Luhak Nan Tigo, which include Tanah Datar regency, Agam regency, Lima Puluh Kota Regency. Then the culture was spread into the shoreline in western…

Life of Batak People

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Batak People Batak People, is the indigenous tribe of North Sumatra Island. One of the significant tribe in Indonesia. They live on highland of Sumatra, precisely on Tapanuli. There are terms from Batak people, include of Batak Karo, Pakpak, Dairi, Toba, Simalungun, Mandailing, and Angkola. On daily life, Batak people use some dialect on their language, like Karo dialect that being used by Batak Karo people, Pak Pak dialect by Pak Pak people, Simalungun dialect by Simalungun people and Toba dialect that being used by Toba, Angkola and Mandailing people.…

The Great Mosque Of Ancient Time

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The Great Mosque Of Baiturrahman What do you get about Nangroe Aceh Darussalam instead of the Tsunami tragedy 2004? Yes, that mosque. Baiturrahman great mosque. Settled on the heart of Banda Aceh city, Aceh province, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Baiturrahman great mosque have witnessed the time remaining of Aceh in the past to present time. As the time goes by, Baiturrahman great mosque has already become an icon for Aceh. Has been born to witness the historical time line from Sultanate era, Dutch colonialism, The Indonesian Uprising, Military Operation area until…