Good News From Indonesia

Aya Lancaster, mahasiswa 23 tahun Institut Teknologi Harapan Bangsa, Bandung sempat ditolak novelnya oleh penerbit lokal, namun siapa sangka ternyata novelnya ini diterbitkan di Inggris dan kawasan Eropa. Ia menceritakan pengalamannya yang sempat dipingpong oleh penerbit lokal dan beberapa penerbit menyatakan jika ceritanya belum biasa untuk diterbitkan di Indonesia karena tokoh utamanya seorang iblis perempuan. [...]

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The ASEAN Tourism Association (ASEANTA) named on Thursday Aceh’s traditional Saman dance as the best ASEAN cultural preservation effort at the 25th ASEANTA Awards for Excellence 2012 in Manado, North Sulawesi. During the event, ASEANTA announced five winners for the nine awards being contested. A photo titled “Traditional Wedding in Minangkabau” by M. Shiddiq of [...]

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Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Indonesians no longer need to go to London or Hong Kong to visit the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum because a branch of the famed institution will be opened in Ancol Beach City, Jakarta, in late July 2012. “The Madame Tussaud Museum to be set up in Ancol Beach City will be [...]

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Jakarta will be a center of the world’s halal food as headquarter of the World Halal Food Council (WHFC) that will be officially opened in January 16 2012. “The office, located in the MUI (Indonesian Ulema Council) Building, Central Jakarta, will be inaugurated concurrently with the opening ceremony of the WHFC annual meeting,” the Director [...]

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Grup band Kotak boleh berbangga karena menjadi band yang akan berkolaborasi dengan Simple Plan di konser mereka yang akan diselenggarakan di Jakarta (17 Januari 2012) dan Surabaya (18 Januari 2012). Kotak diajak kolaborasi dalam lagu “Jet Lag”, lagu kolaborasi Simple Plan dengan Natasha Bedingfield. Suara Tantri, vokalis Kotak, akan menggantikan suara Natasha Bedingfield. Anda bisa [...]

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Kunto Hartono, drummer asal Banyuwangi, kembali berhasil memecahkan rekor dunia (Guinness World Records) sebagai penabuh drum terlama dan mencatatkan namanya setelah mengalahkan catatan rekor drummer asal Amerika Serikat, Russ Prager. Ia mencatat waktu menabuh drum selama 121 jam di halaman Balai Kota Malang, Jawa Timur, Minggu (1/1/2012). Rekor sebelumnya yang berhasil dipecahkan hanya selama 120 [...]

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(The Jakarta Post) : The Netherlands will become a center for promoting Indonesian cuisine in Europe, according to the nation’s new top envoy to The Hague. Retno Marsudi said after her swearing in on Wednesday that she would use the best of local cuisine to enhance the relationship between the two countries, antaranews.com reported. Culinary [...]

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(The Jakarta Post) : The tragic novel Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Troops), which tells the story of poor children trying to get an education on a remote island in Indonesia, may have a happy ending. The author, Andrea Hirata, said he received an offer from US-based publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux to release the novel in [...]

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                  Pict Source: Laskar Pelangi on Facebook Di penghujung tahun 2011 menjadi tahun yang menggembirakan bagi Andrea Hirata, novelis dari Bangka Belitong yang terkenal dengan karyanya “Laskar Pelangi” ternyata dilirik oleh penerbit terkemuka Amerika, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (FSG). Mereka  berminat menerbitkan The Rainbow Troops, edisi internasional [...]

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The Borobudur district administration in Central Java is developing a batik village as a new tourist attraction. Twenty women from Wanurejo tourist village near the Borobudur temple are taking part in batik training to develop the potential of batik handicrafts that is yet to be tapped. “So far the batik handicrafts have not been handled [...]

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