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Water Taxis: Palembang, Sumatra
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:37:05 +0000 | Indonesia Logue
In a bid to ease traffic congestion, the Palembang city administration recently launched a water taxi service along the Musi River. Syaidina Ali, the head of the Palembang Transportation Office, said that aside from being an inexpensive means of transportation, the service was also designed to support the administration’s Visit Musi 2008 program. Two motorized water [...]
Raden Saleh Exhibition: Yogyakarta, Central Java
Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:29:17 +0000 | Indonesia Logue
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Raden Saleh (1807-1880), believed to be a pioneer of Indonesian painting, Jogja Gallery is hosting a painting exhibition titled The Illusions of Nationalism. Curator Mikke Susanto says there are several reasons why the theme was selected. “First, it is being held in August, the sacred month for [...]
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:18:50 +0000 | Indonesia Logue
For Nusamba Wurintara, the most prized arabica coffee beans on his plantation are not those growing on bushes but the ones he finds among the undergrowth, wedged in the excrement of wild palm civets. These beans produce kopi luwak, a chocolate flavored coffee that is one of the world’s most prized and expensive brews. Each morning as he [...]
W Retreat & Spa-Bali To Open in 2009
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:13:30 +0000 | Indonesia Logue
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., has announced that W Hotels - the world’s fastest growing luxury hotel brand - will open its first property in Indonesia in 2009. W Retreat & Spa-Bali will be the brand’s fourth retreat in the world, following the award-winning W Retreat & Spa-Maldives, which opened in September 2006, and [...]
Palembang Flea Market: Palembang, Sumatra
Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:42:55 +0000 | Indonesia Logue
Jakarta may have its Jl. Surabaya and Taman Puring flea markets but Cinde Market in Palembang is a bargain-hunter’s utopia. Cinde Market in fact comprises two markets, situated side by side. One is a traditional market in a two-story building on Jl. Sudirman, the other a flea market that takes up parts of Jl. Karet, [...]
Paragliding: Malang, East Java
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:43:54 +0000 | Indonesia Logue
For Malang lawyer Sunu Setyonugroho, who has a deep and irrational fear of heights, there’s only one cure. He goes halfway up Mount Banyak at Songgoriti, Batu, East Java. He stands 1,300 meters above sea level, quivering on the edge of a sheer drop, far above a lovely patchwork landscape of tilled fields and [...]
A Dreamworld of Colors Exhibition: Bali
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:39:40 +0000 | Indonesia Logue
A Dreamworld of Colors, water color paintings by Agus Budiyanto, is currently on exhibit at Ganesha Gallery, Four Seasons Resort Bali, through Sept. 27. The Indonesian watercolor artist has obviously matured in his work after more than 28 years of creating and experimenting with colors and form. “Agus has crossed the border between the natural [...]
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