The tradition of residents around the volcano, especially in responding to disasters lava. One of them can be seen in Hamlet tambakan, Sindumartani Village, District Cangkringan, Sleman regency, as one of the villages that are often impassable lava disaster (cold or hot) from Mount Merapi. The ceremony is a prayer to ask the safety [...]

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Commemorating Buddha Gautama’s birth, death and accession, Buddhists hold their greatest ceremony at Borobudur and Mendut temples. The ceremony is held during the full moon Purnama Sidhi in the May. Buddhists from all over Indonesia and even from other countries participate in the ceremony.
The religious procession starts from Mendut temple and continues to Borobudur, preceded [...]

Celebrating the birth Muhammad SAW the prophet, Javanese Moslems hold a series of ceremonies during the Maulud (one of the months in the Islamic Calendar). Sekaten is arranged on the fifth day of the month, the ceremony starts at midnight with a short procession of abdi dalem (royal servants) from Ponconiti Hall in the Kraton [...]

The biggest ceremony of life cycle rites is marriage. Before the party is held rites have to be performed in the brides family house. Starting with siraman (showering with flower water). Siraman derived from the word “siram” (Java), which means bath. What is meant by being washed in the bath containing the bride and [...]

Both the Javanese noble and the ordinary person, conduct traditional ceremonies, which are all connected to rites of the cycle of life. A woman in the 7th month of pregnancy, especially the first pregnancy, will have a mitoni ceremony. Mitoni means the seventh month celebration and will include showering the woman with flowered water, the [...]

Commemorating Javanese New Year in the first day of the Sura first month, a labuhan ceremony is held on the southern beaches (Parangtritis – Parangkusumo, Pandansimo, Samas, Baron). On New Years Eve night, people arrange torch light processions and gambyong dances, throwing offerings in to the sea at 00.00 follows this.
Labuhan itself comes from the [...]

Parangkusumo Beach is a beach that can be considered more sacred than it is a leisural site to the residents of Yogyakarta. Despite having its own name, it is still a part of Parangtritis Beach. The sacred site is distanced at 30 km south of downtown Yogyakarta. Local residents believe that the beach is the [...]

The annual ceremony to commemorate Ibadah Haji (Idul Adha) is held in front of Masjid Agung Solo. The ceremony is closed by Hajad Dalem Gunungan procession that starts from Keraton Surakarta to Masjid Agung.

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