The Tree Beauties of Komodo Island

Hello world traveller! I'm sorry that I leave this blog for 2 years before, because I'm busy to study for preparing my national exam. But don't worry, now I'm back!! And i will show you the real beauty of indonesia! I will post beauty place, delicious food, and interesting culture of Indonesia.

Now, I will post about Komodo Island! There are Tree Beauties of Komodo island! What is that?
Just check this out!

1. PINK BEACH

 

And this is the picture of pink beach. What a beautiful beach! If you a girl, I bet you will like this beach so much, especially for the 'pinky'. How can the sand in this beach become pink? It's because the red colar fragment were destroyed mix with the white sand. And this beach still clean and beautiful.

2. Komodo National Park (Underwater)

 

Here we can see 277 species of animal which is a mix of animals from Asia and Australia. Moreover, for us who like snorkeling, here is also a paradise for fish and coral reefs. There are at least 253 species of reef-building corals, 70 species of sponge, and 1,000 species of fish. That's where life dugong, sharks, 14 species of whales, dolphins, and turtles.

3. Ancient Animal aka Komodo

 

Giant lizards including ancient animal was first discovered in 1910 by Peter Ouwens, director of the Bogor Zoological Museum. And currently dragon populations can only be found in Indonesia. On the island, there are about 2,500 Komodo dragons included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

And that's all guys! What do you think? Amazing right?

So what do you waiting for? C'mon come and visit our Wonderful Indonesia!!!

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Parai Tenggiri Beach

Tenggiri Parai beach is nautical tourism in the village of Matras, District Sungailiat. This beach is very exotic, especially if the state of the sea water receded, it would seem that granite stones grayish black color even white which looks beautiful. On the beach there were already star hotel, so it is suitable for domestic tourists or foreign tourists.

To reach this beach, a trip along the road surface is quite smooth, and there are two big rivers with dense mangrove trees along the edges. It takes approximately 50 minutes to arrive at Parai Beach Resort & Spa, a four-star hotel owned by El John Group.

Beautiful scenery in the form of large white stones scattered gray along Parai Beach, crystal clear sea, clean white sand, and a gentle breeze is a natural beauty that can be enjoyed at Parai Beach. Walking along the beach, Stepping on the smooth white sand was fun and refreshing the soul.

It took about 50 minutes to fly from Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta to Depati Amir Pangkalpinang, with more than six flights a day, including Garuda, Sriwijaya Air and Batavia. Taxis are available at the Depati Amir airport , including his driver and car rental are also available with the rental price is quite reasonable.

So, what else you waiting for? Let's come to the Parai Tenggiri Beach and enjoy a beautiful view of the dazzling!!

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Piranha Lost With This Indonesian Monster Fish

Giant Snakehead, as the English call it. One type of fish was finally caught by an angler in Lincolnshire, England. This fish is also called "gangster"of fish. Because he eats everything he saw, even reported to have killed humans.

Amazingly, the snakehead can walk on land, particularly at night during the dry season, looking for a place that is still runny. If the state is very dry, this fish can be forced to bury themselves in the mud to wait until the place was re-watering. Snakehead does have the ability to breathe immediately thanks to the labyrinth organ.

The fish was first caught by Andy Alder from Lincoln. He accidentally caught fish is 60 cm long when he was fishing in the river Witham near North Hykeham, UK. (Snakehead can grow a maximum of about 1 meter).

 

 

"The fish has a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. Honestly, I'm scared shitless. Once found, these fish are not only caused panic fishermen but also nature conservation activists," said Andy Alder.

Ben Weir, a journalist from fishing magazine said, "In all my work in the field of fishing, I have not heard much concern as it sounds. Fish is real and they will not hesitate to attack humans to protect their children. Experts have examined pictures of fish and confirm that this fish is a true predator.

 

Now, this fish has been blacklisted for import of prohibited species in the UK. Although there remains concern that these fish can be smuggled in for an aquarium pets and then released illegally.

Snakehead not only create fear in the UK, but also to America. Obama in his country, the fish got more sinister nickname, "Franken Fish". Indeed, as a predator of all creatures in the water, suitable of the name because it is really a monster.

 In 2002, the waters of the United States created panic and chaos caused by the appearance of the monster fish. So the sniper prepared in the river to shoot them. At that time, the river filled with blood to lure them out.

Quite surprisingly, the fish are not from America or Europe, but rather imported from Southeast Asia. Yes, there are many fish in Indonesia and we call it:  CORK FISH

 

 Oh mister ... if in here, this fish was made ​​into crackers, pempek, spiced tempoyak, or the "Gabus Pucung" - typical food ethnic Betawi in Jakarta. Apparently the more powerful Indonesia, right? When the American and British fears with the monster, we even make that for dining.

 

 

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Finally, Indonesia Have Coffee Festival

There are 14 provinces in Indonesia which is known as a producer of coffee. Each coffee has a taste that is different. These copies became world consumption. Unfortunately, not many people know they drink coffee actually comes from Indonesia.

"We want to popularize coffee in Indonesia, both internationally and locally. Coffee-Coffee Indonesia, we prefer not to know where it came from," said Director of Indonesian Coffee Festival 2012, Ellyanthi Tambunan, during a press conference at the House of Sapta Enchantment, Jakarta, Tuesday (28 / 8/2012).

Moreover, Ellyanthi said, 80 percent of Indonesian coffees are abroad. Therefore, it plans to organize Indonesian Coffee Festival to be held on 15-16 September 2012. The event will take place at the Museum Puri Paintings, Ubud, Gianyar, Bali.

"Previously we've organized Road to Indonesian Coffee Festival in London last year. This will be the first time the coffee festival held in Indonesia," said Ellyanthi.

Later, Ellyanthi said, visitors who attend the festival will see and know the coffee ranging from upstream to downstream, starting from the time of planting until the coffee served in a cup of coffee up.

Ellyanthi said, Ubud was chosen as host for the coffee festival Ubud has become an icon of tourism in Indonesia. In addition, the committee also will tour a coffee plantation in Kintamani, Bangli district.

"These gardens have got the right geographic identikasi. These gardens are one example of the best plantations in Indonesia. Would be no element of agro later on there," said Ellyanthi.

In the festival, the participants who participated is a manufacturer of coffee, coffee farmers, coffee spa use, to use coffee in a restaurant menu.

'Coffee use not just for drinking. Residue remains also to the spa, "says Ellyanthi.

In addition, drink containers for coffee producers to coffee communities will be present to enliven the festival. The festival is open to the general public, coffee lovers, coffee to businesses and restaurants.

According Ellyanthi, the festival will take some workshop agenda as baristas, coffee bazaar, and a visit to a coffee plantation. In barista workshop, will be training for baristas (coffee peracik operate an espresso machine).

"We expect the barista was attended not only students but also tourism. At Jakata and Surabaya, baristas are included in the curriculum of tourism. Students can become more familiar with Indonesian coffee. Hopefully there will also barista certification," said Tuti Mochtar of Indonesian Coffee Festival 2012 and also a coffee expert.

While the bazaar coffee, Ellyanthi explained that it would be fair coffee from different regions. He added that participation is filler bazaar coffee producers and coffee farmers. While the coffee plantation tour will invite festival goers to get to know the planting of coffee and a discussion with coffee farmers in Kintamani.

Meanwhile, Deputy Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, said that coffee Nirwandar Indonesia is one of the best coffee in the world. Not to mention, he added, the potential for spread of Indonesian coffee from Aceh to Papua.

"We have no reason not to promote coffee. We have a lot of coffee that we support activities, one of which, the festival of coffee," Sapta said.

So What Do You Think About My Indonesia? Leave A Comment!

Source:  http://the-junker.blogspot.com

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INDONESIA

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia Indonesian pronunciation: [rɛpʊblɪk indɔnɛsɪa]), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 17,508 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 

Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies. The Indonesian economy is the world's sixteenth largest by nominal GDP and fifteenth largest by purchasing power parity.

The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when Srivijaya and then later Majapahit traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually absorbed foreign cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders brought Islam, and European powers brought Christianity and fought one another to monopolize trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process, and periods of rapid economic change.

Across its many islands, Indonesia consists of hundreds of distinct native ethnic and linguistic groups. The largest—and politically dominant—ethnic group are the Javanese. A shared identity has developed, defined by a national language, ethnic diversity, religious pluralism within a majority Muslim population, and a history of colonialism and rebellion against it. Indonesia's national motto, "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika" ("Unity in Diversity" literally, "many, yet one"), articulates the diversity that shapes the country. Despite its large population and densely populated regions, Indonesia has vast areas of wilderness that support the world's second highest level of biodiversity. The country has abundant natural resources, yet poverty remains widespread.

Etymology

The name Indonesia derives from the Latin and Greek Indus, and the Greek nèsos, meaning "island". The name dates to the 18th century, far predating the formation of independent Indonesia. In 1850, George Windsor Earl, an English ethnologist, proposed the terms Indunesians — and, his preference, Malayunesians — for the inhabitants of the "Indian Archipelago or Malayan Archipelago".In the same publication, a student of Earl's, James Richardson Logan, used Indonesia as a synonym for Indian Archipelago. However, Dutch academics writing in East Indies publications were reluctant to use Indonesia. Instead, they used the terms Malay Archipelago (Maleische Archipel); the Netherlands East Indies (Nederlandsch Oost Indië), popularly Indië; the East (de Oost); and Insulinde. 

After 1900, the name Indonesia became more common in academic circles outside the Netherlands, and Indonesian nationalist groups adopted it for political expression. Adolf Bastian, of the University of Berlin, popularized the name through his book Indonesien oder die Inseln des Malayischen Archipels, 1884–1894. The first Indonesian scholar to use the name was Suwardi Suryaningrat (Ki Hajar Dewantara), when he established a press bureau in the Netherlands with the name Indonesisch Pers-bureau in 1913

History

Fossils and the remains of tools show that the Indonesian archipelago was inhabited by Homo erectus, popularly known as the "Java Man", between 1.5 million years ago and as recently as 35,000 years ago. Homo sapiens reached the region by around 45,000 years ago. In 2011 evidence was uncovered in neighbouring East Timor, showing that 42,000 years ago these early settlers had high-level maritime skills, and by implication the technology needed to make ocean crossings to reach Australia and other islands, as they were catching and consuming large numbers of big deep sea fish such as tuna. 

Austronesian peoples, who form the majority of the modern population, migrated to South East Asia from Taiwan. They arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE, and as they spread through the archipelago, confined the native Melanesian peoples to the far eastern regions. Ideal agricultural conditions, and the mastering of wet-field rice cultivation as early as the 8th century BCE, allowed villages, towns, and small kingdoms to flourish by the 1st century CE. Indonesia’s strategic sea-lane position fostered inter-island and international trade, including links with Indian kingdoms and China, which were established several centuries BCE.Trade has since fundamentally shaped Indonesian history

From the 7th century, the powerful Srivijaya naval kingdom flourished as a result of trade and the influences of Hinduism and Buddhism that were imported with it. Between the 8th and 10th centuries, the agricultural Buddhist Sailendra and Hindu Mataram dynasties thrived and declined in inland Java, leaving grand religious monuments such as Sailendra's Borobudur and Mataram's Prambanan. The Hindu Majapahit kingdom was founded in eastern Java in the late 13th century, and under Gajah Mada, its influence stretched over much of Indonesia. 

Although Muslim traders first traveled through South East Asia early in the Islamic era, the earliest evidence of Islamized populations in Indonesia dates to the 13th century in northern Sumatra. Other Indonesian areas gradually adopted Islam, and it was the dominant religion in Java and Sumatra by the end of the 16th century. For the most part, Islam overlaid and mixed with existing cultural and religious influences, which shaped the predominant form of Islam in Indonesia, particularly in Java. The first regular contact between Europeans and the peoples of Indonesia began in 1512, when Portuguese traders, led by Francisco Serrão, sought to monopolize the sources of nutmeg, cloves, and cubeb pepper in Maluku. Dutch and British traders followed. In 1602 the Dutch established the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and became the dominant European power. Following bankruptcy, the VOC was formally dissolved in 1800, and the government of the Netherlands established the Dutch East Indies as a nationalized colony. 

For most of the colonial period, Dutch control over the archipelago was tenuous outside of coastal strongholds; only in the early 20th century did Dutch dominance extend to what was to become Indonesia's current boundaries. Despite major internal political, social and sectarian divisions during the Indonesian National Revolution, Indonesians, on the whole, found unity in their fight for independence. Japanese occupation during World War II ended Dutch rule, and encouraged the previously suppressed Indonesian independence movement. A later UN report stated that four million people died in Indonesia as a result of famine and forced labor during the Japanese occupation. Two days after the surrender of Japan in August 1945, Sukarno, an influential nationalist leader, declared independence and was appointed president. The Netherlands tried to reestablish their rule, and the resulting conflict ended in December 1949, when in the face of international pressure, the Dutch formally recognized Indonesian independence (with the exception of the Dutch territory of West New Guinea, which was incorporated into Indonesia following the 1962 New York Agreement, and the UN-mandated Act of Free Choice of 1969).

Sukarno moved Indonesia from democracy towards authoritarianism, and maintained his power base by balancing the opposing forces of the military and the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). An attempted coup on 30 September 1965 was countered by the army, who led a violent anti-communist purge, during which the PKI was blamed for the coup and effectively destroyed. Around 500,000 people are estimated to have been killed. The head of the military, General Suharto, outmaneuvered the politically weakened Sukarno, and was formally appointed president in March 1968. His New Order administration was supported by the US government, and encouraged foreign direct investment in Indonesia, which was a major factor in the subsequent three decades of substantial economic growth. However, the authoritarian "New Order" was widely accused of corruption and suppression of political opposition. 

Indonesia was the country hardest hit by the late 1990s Asian financial crisis. This led to popular protest against the New Order which led to Suharto's resignation in May 1998. In 1999, East Timor voted to secede from Indonesia, after a twenty-five-year military occupation that was marked by international condemnation of repression of the East Timorese. Since Suharto's resignation, a strengthening of democratic processes has included a regional autonomy program, and the first direct presidential election in 2004. Political and economic instability, social unrest, corruption, and terrorism slowed progress, however, in the last five years the economy has performed strongly. Although relations among different religious and ethnic groups are largely harmonious, sectarian discontent and violence has occurred. A political settlement to an armed separatist conflict in Aceh was achieved in 2005.

 

Foreign relations and military

In contrast to Sukarno's anti-imperialistic antipathy to western powers and tensions with Malaysia, Indonesia's foreign relations since the Suharto "New Order" have been based on economic and political cooperation with Western nations. Indonesia maintains close relationships with its neighbors in Asia, and is a founding member of ASEAN and the East Asia Summit. The nation restored relations with the People's Republic of China in 1990 following a freeze in place since anti-communist purges early in the Suharto era. 

Indonesia has been a member of the United Nations since 1950, and was a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC, now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation). Indonesia is signatory to the ASEAN Free Trade Area agreement, the Cairns Group, and the WTO, and has historically been a member of OPEC, although it withdrew in 2008 as it was no longer a net exporter of oil. Indonesia has received humanitarian and development aid since 1966, in particular from the United States, western Europe, Australia, and Japan. 

The Indonesian Government has worked with other countries to apprehend and prosecute perpetrators of major bombings linked to militant Islamism and Al-Qaeda. The deadliest bombing killed 202 people (including 164 international tourists) in the Bali resort town of Kuta in 2002. The attacks, and subsequent travel warnings issued by other countries, severely damaged Indonesia's tourism industry and foreign investment prospects. 

Indonesia's 300,000-member armed forces (TNI) include the Army (TNI–AD), Navy (TNI–AL, which includes marines), and Air Force (TNI–AU). The army has about 400,000 active-duty personnel. Defense spending in the national budget was 4% of GDP in 2006, and is controversially supplemented by revenue from military commercial interests and foundations. One of the reforms following the 1998 resignation of Suharto was the removal of formal TNI representation in parliament; nevertheless, its political influence remains extensive.

Separatist movements in the provinces of Aceh and Papua have led to armed conflict, and subsequent allegations of human rights abuses and brutality from all sides. Following a sporadic thirty-year guerrilla war between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military, a ceasefire agreement was reached in 2005. In Papua, there has been a significant, albeit imperfect, implementation of regional autonomy laws, and a reported decline in the levels of violence and human rights abuses, since the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Administrative divisions

Administratively, Indonesia consists of 33 provinces, five of which have special status. Each province has its own legislature and governor. The provinces are subdivided into regencies (kabupaten) and cities (kota), which are further subdivided into districts (kecamatan), and again into village groupings (either desa or kelurahan). Furthermore, a village is divided into several citizen-groups (Rukun-Warga (RW)) which are further divided into several neighbourhood-groups (Rukun-Tetangga (RT)). Following the implementation of regional autonomy measures in 2001, the regencies and cities have become the key administrative units, responsible for providing most government services. The village administration level is the most influential on a citizen's daily life, and handles matters of a village or neighborhood through an elected lurah or kepala desa (village chief).

The provinces of Aceh, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Papua, and West Papua have greater legislative privileges and a higher degree of autonomy from the central government than the other provinces. The Acehnese government, for example, has the right to create certain elements of an independent legal system; in 2003, it instituted a form of Sharia (Islamic law). Yogyakarta was granted the status of Special Region in recognition of its pivotal role in supporting Indonesian Republicans during the Indonesian Revolution. Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, was granted special autonomy status in 2001 and was separated into Papua and West Papua in February 2003. Jakarta is the country's special capital region.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY INDONESIA, 67 years old. Hmm.. that's not just a moment. I hope Indonesia will be the best country again. I LOVE YOU INDONESIA!! I PROUD TO BE INDONESIAN!!

So, What Do You Think About My Country?? Leave A Comment!

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