UOB Plaza high-rise building took shape over a decade after the 1997 Asian monetary crisis, when it stood in agony with bare pillars and storeys, behing the giant banner displaying The Westin hotel, a supposedly main tenant hadn’t the crisis brought the construction to a halt. Continue reading Thamrin Nine Project 1
When dusk fell, workers swarmed the lobbies of BRI 1 and the adjacent BRI 2 Tower, and went out through multiple exit doors which lead to restaurants alley, the famous BRI garden complex, or simply to Sudirman street. Continue reading BRI towers at twilight
Liem Keng Sien (1954 – 2014) called his home cum studio the university of rest and relax, a creative place that goes unsupported by government, and unrecognized by public. Less serious in nature, perhaps it is this aphorism “Art is long, life is short” where Keng Sien took an inspiration to create his final art series, interestingly, in the shape of many laughing expressions based … Continue reading University of rest and relax, Liem Keng Sien in retropsective
The three-meters-wide dirt road that spans 20 kilometers deep into the forest in Central Java has existed since early 90s when loggers began exploiting the area. The hidden activity increases during summer as the road mostly turn muddy in wet season, thus obstructing trucks transporting the lumber. The fact that the plain, green area of a hundred hectares in total size is labeled a non-productive forest, coupled with the Land Protection Act issued by the Forestry Department, have little effect on preventing illegal logging. The locals told that logging culminated between 2001 and 2003. Continue reading “TEAK FOREST OF WEST JAVA”
Jakarta is now home to rapidly increasing numbers of skyscrapers. Office building projects are now dominated by over thirty stories high. Having reached its peak momentum in 1997 and suddenly collapsed due to severe economic crisis, Jakarta is in the past two years on the faster track to expand its high-rise property market, and much taller. Continue reading “A LOOK BACK AT 2012 JAKARTA ZONING DETAIL AND PLANS”
Producing a Chinese folklore by means of Indonesian culture and provincial idiosyncracies is the task taken by Teater Koma in Opera Ular Putih, an adaptation of the 6th century Tang dynasty fiction the Legend of the White Snake, with three months of rehearsal and preparation. Continue reading The Opera of the White Snake Legend
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Yosea Riyadi Permana menyajkan lanskap lokasi wisata Pasir Pawon atau lebih dikenal dengan Stone Garden dan Gua Pawon.
Tak dapat dipungkiri bahwa perkembangan dan penggunaan media sosial saat ini sangat mempengaruhi aspek apapun. Setelah beberapa waktu lalu Tebing Keraton menjadi trend di media sosial, kini giliran Pasir Pawon (sekarang lebih dikenal sebagai Stone Garden atauTaman Batu) yang menjadi primadona. Kebiasaan user media sosial seperti Facebook, Twitter, Instagram dan Path yang mengupload mengenai foto-foto dan informasi mengenai lokasi ini membuat banyak orang berbondong-bondong ke Stone Garden, entah itu untuk mencari tahu mengenai sejarah maupun hanya sekedar berfoto saja. Media sosial juga yang membantu saya untuk bisa hadir ke tempat ini.
Tujuh bulan sudah sejak Agustus 2014 Stone Garden di serbu oleh para wisatawan. Sebelumnya lokasi ini hanyalah sebuah dataran tinggi gunung karst yang berada diantara formasi gunung-gunung karst lainnya di daerah Citatah, Padalarang. Susunan batu yang membentuk formasi unik di Stone Garden lah yang menjadi daya tarik bagi wisatawan untuk datang kemari. Menurut warga sekitar, beberapa bulan sebelum lokasi ini menjadi primadona hampir tak ada orang yang datang ke Stone Garden, hanya beberapa arkeolog yang sudah sejak tahun 1999 lah yang datang untuk meneliti lokasi ini. Di lokasi ini juga terdapat situs lain, Gua Pawon. Gua yang menjadi situs arkeologi pra-sejarah ini berada tepat dibawah Stone Garden. Continue reading “MENAPAKI JEJAK PURBAKALA BANDUNG”
An eight-hour trip from Jakarta brought us to a small town in Surade district of Sukabumi regency, West Java. The journey continued 30Km southwest across stony path to a stretch of hill overlooking a river where the beauty nature could best afford blended with the complexity life had brought upon human beings. Continue reading Rock workers of the south coast
What troubles Jose Rizal Manua’s mind of late other than keeping that brain brushed up to memorize a hell of a line in theater when he is no longer physically young, despite his conviction that he still is, at least in soul? Continue reading Jose Rizal Manua plays Mas Joko
The article first appeared on Indonesia Jazz Review, 17 March 2015.
Swing Boss Jazz Band dedicated itself since it was founded in 2014 to promote Indonesian vernacular songs in a unique arrangements combining jazz and bossa nova. Given that jazz emerges from an alternative cultural expression of folk songs developed by a particular group of immigrants in the US, the seven members of the band applies similar approach in the modern Indonesia, a diverse country where they can find abundant cultural reference for their works, such as folk songs from the eastern province of Maluku, Sulawesi, to Java. The latter became the theme of their performance in Galeri Indonesia Kaya, Jakarta, on Sunday, 16 March 2015.
Popular traditional Javanese folk songs such as Rek Ayo Rek and Suwe Ora Jamu showcased their creativity to make rural culture more receptive to urban trends. As the host repeteadly uttered in the opening words, “this is the real Java jazz,” alluring to the recently held International Java Jazz Festival 2015, the biggest regular jazz event in the country, but dominated by global pop culture instead of identifying local character. Talking about local identity, exceptional 30 year-old singer Sruti Respati, also in the same spirit to increase the popularity of Indonesian folk songs among the pop-influenced Indonesian public, sang Gundul Pacul and Gambang Suling in a classic style, but in harmony with the band’s play.
Continue reading “The real Java Jazz”
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