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| Category | : | Belanja, Family |
| Time | : | 10.00 - 21.00 WIB |
| Venue | : | Grand Bima Hall JOGJA EXPO CENTER (JEC) Jl. Raya Janti, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 451 001 |
| Description | : | NIX 2012 is an annual computer exhibition held by APKOMINDO and marathon in some cities in Indonesia, and there are some events held to support this exhibition. |
| Ticketing | : | IDR 5,000 |
| CP / EO | : | APKOMINDO |
| Category | : | Culture, Family | |
| Time | : | 08.00 WIB |  |
| Venue | : | Kompleks BOROBUDUR, Magelang, Indonesia | |
| Description | : | Waicak procession will take a whole day. At 8 in the morning, Buddhist people will gather to do a procession by walking from Mendut to Borobudur temple to do the next process called puja bakti. In the evening, which is the Waicak moment, all Buddhist people will stay and do meditation continued by doing pradaksina go aroung the temple for 3 times. This procession will be ended by releasing paper lantern in Borobudur temple complex. | |
| Ticketing | : | Acara ini gratis, kita hanya membayar tiket untuk masuk ke Candi Borobudur Indonesia / KITAS: IDR 30,000 Wisman: USD 13 | |
| CP / EO | : | (0293) 788 266 |
| Category | : | Belanja |
| Time | : | 10.00 - 21.00 WIB |
| Venue | : | Bima Hall C JOGJA EXPO CENTER (JEC) Jl. Raya Janti, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 451 001 |
| Description | : | Hot Import Night is an automotive exhibition held by PT HIN Promosindo. |
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| CP / EO | : | PT Hin Promosindo |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Family |
| Time | : | 14.30 WIB |
| Venue | : | Halaman Kemandungan, Kompleks SULTAN PALACE, Indonesia |
| Description | : | Jemparingan is an archery competition in traditional style. The archers should wear Javanese traditional clothes, and during the competition, they should sit with the legs crossed. It is run every Selasa Wage (a name of day in Javanese calendar) to commemorate the king of Yogyakarta palace (Sri Sultan HB X). |
| Ticketing | : | Free |
| CP / EO | : | +62 274 373 721 |
| Category | : | Belanja |  |
| Time | : | 09.00 - 21.00 WIB | |
| Venue | : | Grand Bima Hall JOGJA EXPO CENTER (JEC) Jl. Raya Janti, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 451 001 | |
| Description | : | Festival Bedah Rumah is an exhibition on products and new findings in construction, interior design, and housing that will be very useful for the consumer because of their good price. This event has special feature compared to other similar events since it becomes reference for common people and business companies on building material, interior design, housing, and architecture service in Yogyakarta and Central Java. | |
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| CP / EO | : | ARPRO & Medialink |
| Category | : | Belanja, Family |
| Time | : | 09.00 - 21.00 WIB |
| Venue | : | Grand Bima Hall JOGJA EXPO CENTER (JEC) Jl. Raya Janti, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 451 001 |
| Description | : | Amazing Wedding and Beauty Expo 2012 aims for introducing various wedding custom and tradition from many culture in Indonesia including the stuffs and equipments supported the event. It’s also a place for wedding organizers to promote their company and service that covers building rent for holding wedding party, tourism object consultation for honey moon, decoration, wedding dress, make up, hair styling, wedding documentation, invitation, souvenir, catering, host and entertainment, flower bouquet, body treatment, and many more. They will be given change to introduce and promote their service directly to the customers. |
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| CP / EO | : | ARPRO & Medialink |
| Category | : | Pameran |
| Time | : | 09.00 - 21.00 WIB |
| Venue | : | Grand Bima Hall JOGJA EXPO CENTER (JEC) Jl. Raya Janti, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 451 001 |
| Description | : | Superfood Expo is a food exhibition that will be supported by product and cooking demonstration of five star products and innovative menus. There is also some competition with interesting prize. |
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| CP / EO | : | ARPRO & Medialink |
| Category | : | Belanja, Family |
| Time | : | 09.00 - 21.00 WIB |
| Venue | : | Bima Hall B & C JOGJA EXPO CENTER (JEC) Jl. Raya Janti, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 451 001 |
| Description | : | Jogja 3 Point 3 Titex 2012 (trade, investment, tourism expo) is held by Tourism Department of Yogyakarta province incorporated with PT. Aaliyah Citra Prima. Many stands from various regions in Indonesia will show their tourism, trade potency, and investment opportunity. |
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| CP / EO | : | Aliyah Citra Prima |
| Category | : | Family | |
| Time | : | Pembukaan tanggal 30 April pukul 21.00 WIB, penutupan tanggal 31 Mei pukul 22.00 WIB |  |
| Venue | : | Gua Maria SENDANG SONO, Banjaroyo, Kalibawang, Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia | |
| Description | : | Bulan Maria (a month to worship Mother Marry) is a devotion tradition for Mother Marry conducted by Catholic people in May. In this month, Gua Maria Sendangsono will be visited by people who want to pray and do their devotion to Mother Marry. | |
| Ticketing | : | Free | |
| CP / EO | : | Kantor Sendangsono (0828 9260 5051) Pasturan Promasan (0828 276 5733) |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Nightlife | |
| Time | : | 19.30 - 21.30 |  |
| Venue | : | Indoor Theater Taman Wisata Candi PRAMBANAN Jl. Raya Yogya-Solo km 16 Prambanan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 496 408 | |
| Description | : | Ramayana Ballet is performed at the place where the story was carved a thousand years ago: Prambanan Temple. This cultural performance has managed to combine the diversity of Javanese art in forms of dance, drama and music on one stage and at the same momentum to present Ramayana Story summed up in four stages: Sinta's abduction, Anoman's mission to Alengka, the death of Rahwana and a happy ending when Sinta and Rama meet up again. | |
| Ticketing | : | IDR 100,000 - IDR 300,000 | |
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| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Nightlife | |
| Time | : | Every night, 20.00 - 21.30 |  |
| Venue | : | Purawisata Jl. Brigjen Katamso, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 375 705 | |
| Description | : | Ramayana Ballet is a beautiful, enchanting and unrivalled performance that could combine the diversity of Javanese arts in forms of dance, drama and music in one stage that at the same time could deliver Ramayana story in four stages: Sinta's abduction, Anoman's mission to Alengka, Kumbarkana's death and the happy ending when Rama meets Sinta again. This show has received the award for making a record of 25 year stripping show from MURI (Indonesia documentary record museum). www.yogyes.com/ramayana-ballet | |
| Ticketing | : | IDR 140,000 (per show) IDR 250,000 (show + dinner) |
| Category | : | Family, Nightlife | |
| Time | : | Every night, 19.00 till finish |  |
| Venue | : | Alun Alun Kidul (Southern square of Sultan's palace) | |
| Description | : | Try to walk as if you're blind by closing your eyes to get into the middle of two banyan tress at southern square of Sultan's palace. If you're lucky, you might be able to proceed smoothly. However, many people end up to far deviation at that process inviting many laughs. For more joy and fun, challenge your friends to do the same same thing and compare the results. | |
| Ticketing | : | Free |
| Category | : | Entertainment, Nightlife |
| Time | : | Every night, 20.30 - 23.00 |
| Venue | : | Purawisata Jl. Brigjen Katamso, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 375 705 |
| Description | : | Dangdut is a very popular music stream in Indonesia that is a mixture of traditional, Arabian, Indian and proto malay. The attractive part is at the entertaining rhytm, beauty of the singers and body movement following the rhytm in particular. Purawisata comes with different Malay music assemble and singer every single day. |
| Ticketing | : | IDR 8,000 (week days) IDR 10,000 (Saturday night) |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Nightlife | |
| Time | : | Every night, 20.00 - 22.00 |  |
| Venue | : | SONOBUDOYO MUSEUM Jl. Trikora 6 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 418 330 | |
| Description | : | Wayang kulit (leather puppet) is a magnificent artwork of Javanese art performance that has received acknowledgment from UNESCO. A dalang (wayang player) plays puppet made from buffalo's leather behind a white screen. Hence, the audience can only see the shadow. That's exactly the reason why it's called "wayang" meaning shadow in English. The attractive parts of the show lie on the dynamic movement of dalang at playing different roles of wayang, changing the voice character, his jokes and even his singing. www.yogyes.com/wayang-kulit-show | |
| Ticketing | : | IDR 20,000 |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment |
| Time | : | Every Sunday, 11.00 - 12.00 |
| Venue | : | SULTAN PALACE Jl. Rotowijayan 1 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 373 721 |
| Description | : | "Wayang Orang" is a Javanese traditional theater combining music, drama and dance. The actors making up themselves as if they're the real leather puppet played by them. The story at this show taken from Mahabarta or Ramayana story. |
| Ticketing | : | It's free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Nightlife |
| Time | : | Every 1st Sunday night in a month, 20.00 - 24.00 |
| Venue | : | Auditorium RRI Jl. Affandi / Jl. Gejayan Phone: +62 274 512783 |
| Description | : | Ketoprak is a traditional javanese theater performance. Just like wayang orang, Ketoprak comes with a drama inserting a Javanese composition and gamelan music. The critical difference lies on its source of the story where it's not derived from Mahabarata or Ramayana but it's derived from legend or other stories. |
| Ticketing | : | IDR 5,000 |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment | |
| Time | : | Every Monday and Tuesday, 10.00 - 12.00 |  |
| Venue | : | SULTAN PALACE Jl. Rotowijayan 1 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 373 721 | |
| Description | : | A show combining gamelan music and singing. Karawitan is derived from sanskrit word "rawit" meaning soft. Watching this show can be best described as experiencing the ideal values of Javanese music philosophy from the source, Keraton Yogyakarta (Sultan's palace) | |
| Ticketing | : | It's free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Family |
| Time | : | Every Wednesday, 10.00 - 12.00 |
| Venue | : | SULTAN PALACE Jl. Rotowijayan 1 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 373 721 |
| Description | : | Wayang Golek is a wooden puppet art show which is so popular in West Java. |
| Ticketing | : | It's free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Family | |
| Time | : | Every Thursday, 10.00 - 12.00 |  |
| Venue | : | SULTAN PALACE Jl. Rotowijayan 1 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 373 721 | |
| Description | : | Seeing Javanese philosophy through music. That's the valuable thing that you'll experience by watching this cultural performance at this special place. Listening to the gamelan rhytm can be best described as listening to a harmony relaxing your mind and soul. www.yogyes.com/gamelan-show | |
| Ticketing | : | It's free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment | |
| Time | : | Every Friday, 10.00 - 11.30 |  |
| Venue | : | SULTAN PALACE Jl. Rotowijayan 1 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 373 721 | |
| Description | : | This is a poetry reading performance accompanied by gamelan music. The poetry is presented as if it's a song that has a specific pattern and composition. There are seven songs in Macapat: Dhandang Gula, Sinom, Asmarandana and Kinanthi. Each song has its total lyrics and sound called guru. | |
| Ticketing | : | It's free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) |
| Category | : | Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Nightlife | |
| Time | : | Every Saturday, 09.00 - 13.00 | |
| Venue | : | SULTAN PALACE Jl. Rotowijayan 1 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62 274 373 721 | |
| Description | : | Wayang kulit (leather puppet) is a magnificent artwork of Javanese art performance that has received acknowledgment from UNESCO. A dalang (wayang player) plays puppet made from buffalo's leather behind a white screen. Hence, the audience can only see the shadow. That's exactly the reason why it's called "wayang" meaning shadow in English. The attractive parts of the show lie on the dynamic movement of dalang at playing different roles of wayang, changing the voice character, his jokes and even his singing. www.yogyes.com/wayang-kulit-show | |
| Ticketing | : | It's free. However, we need to pay the entrance fee to get into Keraton (IDR 12,500) |
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