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 [...]

Angklung is a tool or instrument made of bamboo art special, which was discovered by Mr. Daeng Sutigna about 1938. When the initial use is still limited to the interests angklung local or traditional arts. However, due to the resulting sounds very sweet and also has local and international content such as sounds that have [...]

Stone carvings in the ancient temples of Borobudur and Prambanan give us a view of life more than one thousand years ago where water, bath, massage, and herbal medicine are involved. Serat Centhini, an old Javanese manuscript, recorded that the people of Majapahit and Medang, two kingdoms that existed and rule large parts of South [...]

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 [...]

Puro Pakualaman is located on Sultan Agung street, about 1 km East of Thre Kraton. The palace was built in 1813 by Prince Haryo Notokusumo, son of Sultan HB I, who was crowned by the British Governor General, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, and became Paku Alam I who ruled the sub district of Kasultanan in [...]

Taman Sari was a special park where Kraton family members and their important guests could spend their leisure time, there is a swimming pool and rooms to take a rest. The building and pool were designed and built by Portuguese prisoners from the Batavia war. Taman Sari was ruined during the war led by Prince [...]

It is about 10 km from the cemetery of Panembahan Senopati in Kotagede. In imogiri cemetery you can see the royal tombs of the Mataram kings. This compound was built on top of a hill by Sultan Agung in 1645, he intended to use this as his royal tomb, In fact, Imogiri became the burial [...]