Jakarta Cathedral Building is now located at No. Jl.Katedral. 2, are the work of the architect of the church pastor Father Anthony Dijkmans, SJ. A Dutch priest who served in Indonesia at that time.
Jakarta Cathedral building this magnificent start was founded in 1891 to replace the old church building that collapsed on 9 April 1890 pulul 10:45 pm just 3 days after the celebration of Passover.
Development of this new church had to face many obstacles, in the year 1892 sepat even halted due to financial shortage.
Jakarta Cathedral building was also to lose the architect who had returned to Holland in 1894 because of illness and eventually he was called God in the year 1922. ... [
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Written on 10 Aug 2010 | Posted in
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Temple Cetho (Javanese spelling: cethå) is a Hindu temple relics patterned end of the Majapahit period (15th century). The first scientific report about it was made by Van de Vlies in 1842. A.J. Bernet Kempers also doing research about it. Excavation (digging) for the purposes of reconstruction was first performed in 1928 by the Archeological Department of the Dutch East Indies. Based on the situation when the debris started to study, this temple has not aged a lot with Sukuh Temple. Location in the village temple Ceto, Gumeng Village, Sub Jenawi, Karanganyar District, at an altitude of 1400m above sea level.
Until now, the temple complex is used by local residents who are Hindus as a ... [
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Written on 8 Aug 2010 | Posted in
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Silih Asah
Silih Asih
Silih Asuh
This poetic word is not random poet, but rather as life philosophy, but rather as life philosophy which is followed by majority of west java citizen. This philosophy teach human to take care each other, based on love and share the knowledge and experience each other. The truth is a life Democritus's concept which is rooted in awareness and nobleness of intelligence and this philosophies root is stab for to the earth in literal meaning. Different with other civilization's people in Indonesia archipelago, West Java's civilization's people which has original citizen and speaks Sudanese is influenced by fertile and nature world. That's why in social interaction, the citizen there follow that philosophy.
Beside they can be intimate with nature environment and other human. ... [
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Written on 5 Aug 2010 | Posted in
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Candi Pari, in the village of Candi Pari, Porong district, is the most majestic temples and beautiful than the other temples in the district of Sidoarjo. Candi Pari best-kept one. The temple was built around 1371 in the era of King Hayam Wuruk (Majapahit) is able to give a picture of how the complexity of economic issues, political, cultural, and social aspects of the other at that time.
Candi Pari, made of carved stone Andesite forming Caka year 1293 or 1371 AD. Outside the building height, size of 13.80 meters, not including the peak of damaged buildings. 13.55 meters long, 13.4 meters wide.
According to the supernatural observation (FKB team was strengthened cultural Sidoarjo gifted ... [
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Written on 3 Aug 2010 | Posted in
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Maluku is the only Indonesian province in which land makes up just 10 percent of the area's total surface. In many places the surrounding seas could be thousands of meters deep. Maluku is a transition zone between the Asian and Australian fauna and flora, and also between the Malay-based cultures of western Indonesia and those of Melanesia.
Its approximately 1000 islands support a population of less than 1.7 million people. The average population density figure is 19 people per-square kilometer, but the distribution is uneven. Air and sea transportation are the main means which link the islands together. The province has 32 seaports and 20 airports, and only about 160 km of roads. However, good roads on many of the islands provide easy access to the ... [
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Written on 1 Aug 2010 | Posted in
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Some electronic books in the Indonesian tourist guide you can