By the celebration of Nyepi holiday which falls on March 5, the Balinese began to prepare the sculpture that called ogoh-ogoh which will parade the day before the celebration of Nyepi. This situation brings its own fortune to the craftsmen ogoh-ogoh because they flooded orders from Bali and outside Bali. One of the ogoh-ogoh maker [...]
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Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik said the promotion of Komodo Park will be keep going on. This he expressed in a press conference at the Sapta Pesona Building, Jakarta, Monday (07/02/2011). “If it had to, we’ll promote, ‘This is the Komodo that is almost deleted’,” said Jero that greeted with laugh by the journalists. [...]
Embassy or Permanent Mission of Indonesia in cooperation with the Vienna Museum of Ethnology Vienna “Museum fur Volkerkunde” held exhibition of cultural objects that were written in the book “Balinese Art in Transition” which is a testament of the discovery of a collection of art objects and artifacts contained in the Balinese culture Austria. The [...]
Frenetic of man-woman dressed in traditional Balinese cloth called poleng, Udeng (fastener heads), and white kebaya was busy cleaning the Chinese stone lions, dragon carved Balinese style, and Chinese incense burner (hio lo) at Po Kong Cong Pagoda in the Temple Ulundanu, Kintamani , Bali, Saturday (29/01/2011). A row of red lanterns inscribed Mandarin character [...]
The Indonesian government expressed no objection if the organizers of “New7Wonders” suspend or remove the Komodo National Park from the list of 28 finalists. New7Wonders Foundation has announced as the organizer announce the status of Komodo Island as finalists will be suspended starting on February 7, 2011. Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik told [...]
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Ministry of Health said it would continue to investigate allegations of legionella outbreak in Bali after reportedly there are some Australian tourists are exposed to bacterial attack. These bacteria attack the respiratory tract. “This morning a new team comes from Bali and will examine the samples in our laboratory in Yogyakarta. Maybe the result a [...]
