Good News From Indonesia

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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Rafi Abdurrahman Ridwan is 9 years old and hearing impaired, and yet he has managed to accomplish what few could ever dream. Like most children, Rafi’s vision is unbounded, and with a passion rare to most people (let alone children), he has become Indonesia’s youngest fashion designer. At Jakarta Fashion Week 2012, Rafi presented 24 [...]

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[The Jakarta Post]: An Indonesian movie, titled Postcards from the Zoo by young director Edwin, will compete at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival. The movie, jointly made by Indonesian, Hong Kong and German film crews, tells the story of a female giraffe trainer. Top actor Nicholas Saputra and actress Ladya Cheryl starred in the [...]

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[The Jakarta Globe]: On the last day of a recent business trip to Kupang, in East Nusa Tenggara, I had some time to travel around the city before my afternoon flight back to Jakarta. The night before I had arranged for Geby Djari, a local woman I met earlier in the trip, to pick me [...]

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[The Jakarta Post]: West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan led 10,000 musicians performing “Tanah Airku” national anthem on angklung bamboo instruments at the West Java Angklung Colossal event at the Sentul International Convention Center (SICC) in Bogor on Wednesday. According to Ahmad, the event was held to show the administration’s appreciation for the angklung being declared [...]

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