Raja Ampat Islands

Located off the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia's West Papua province, Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo, and the smaller island of Kofiau.

Raja Ampat Regency is a new regency which separated from Sorong Regency in 2004.[1] It encompasses more than 40,000 km² of land and sea, which also contains Cenderawasih Bay, the largest marine national park in Indonesia. 

It is a part of the newly named West Papua (province) of Indonesia which was formerly Irian Jaya. Some of the islands are the most northern pieces of land in the Australian continent.

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Wae Rebo

VILLAGE in Mount Pocoroko Wae Rebo, Manggarai, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara blessed Award of Excellence from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO Asia-Pacific region.

Wae Rebo village located about 1,100 meters above sea level, in Satarlenda Village area, District Satarmese West Manggarai, NTT.

Wae Rebo "discovered" the first time in 1997 by a Dutch anthropologist, Catherine Allerton. Wae Rebo Allerton looking for a study.

Home building process documented so the ability citizens to build a house called mbaru niang. Conservation efforts that led UNESCO Award of Excellence and Wae Rebo catapulted into the world.

To get into Wae Rebo, trips must be taken by walking for 4.5 hours. Wae Rebo distance is approximately 9 kilometers from the last village in Denge through the path, climb a 45 degree angle in the dense forest.

Wae Rebo village circular shaped, well rounded shape house with a conical roof. The main traditional house called the drum, with a diameter of 15 meters height the same, occupied 8 family. Another home, called niang Gena, 12 meters in diameter with approximately the same height, inhabited 6 family. The house was passed down by ancestors Wae Rebo named Maro mentioned came from Minangkabau.

Wae Rebo village center point is in the stone circle in front of the main house called rags. Doors each custom built home overlooking the rags. Compang a hub of activity for residents closer to nature, ancestors, and God.

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Prambanan

Prambanan is the masterpiece of Hindu culture of the tenth century. The slim building soaring up to 47 meters makes its beautiful architecture incomparable.

Built in the 10th century, this is the largest temple compound dedicated to Shiva in Indonesia. Rising above the centre of the last of these concentric squares are three temples decorated with reliefs illustrating the epic of the Ramayana, dedicated to the three great Hindu divinities (Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma) and three temples dedicated to 
the animals who serve them.

The temple compound, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the largest Hindu temple site in Indonesia, and one of the biggest in Southeast Asia. It is characterized by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu temple architecture, and by the towering 47-metre-high (154 ft) central building inside a large complex of individual temples. Prambanan attracts many visitors from across the world.

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Bromo

Mount Bromo (Indonesian: Gunung Bromo), is an active volcano and part of the Tengger massif, in East Java, Indonesia. At 2,329 metres (7,641 ft) it is not the highest peak of the massif, but is the most well known. The massif area is one of the most visited tourist attractions in East Java, Indonesia. The volcano belongs to the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. The name of Bromo derived from Javanese pronunciation of Brahma, the Hindu creator god.

Mount Bromo sits in the middle of a vast plain called the "Sea of Sand" (Javanese: Segara Wedi or Indonesian: Lautan Pasir), a protected nature reserve since 1919. The typical way to visit Mount Bromo is from the nearby mountain village of Cemoro Lawang. 



From there it is possible to walk to the volcano in about 45 minutes, but it is also possible to take an organised jeep tour, which includes a stop at the viewpoint on Mount Penanjakan (2,770 m or 9,088 ft) (Indonesian: Gunung Penanjakan). The best views from Mount Bromo to the Sand Sea below and the surrounding volcanoes are at sunrise. The viewpoint on Mount Penanjakan can also be reached on foot in about two hours. From inside the caldera, sulfur is collected by workers.

Depending on the degree of volcanic activity, the Indonesian Centre for Vulcanology and Disaster Hazard Mitigation sometimes issues warnings against visiting Mount Bromo. The list of outstanding warnings may be consulted at the Indonesian-language website of the Centre.

Jaranan

Jaranan is one of the thousands of art which is owned by Indonesia. Jaranan contains elements of mystical arts are very strong, often the players possessed and doing things out of the ordinary. 

Her catwalk dancers also make the audience stunned, cohesion in the movement is accompanied with Javanese gamelan music made ​​the audience seemed reluctant to move from his seat. Location: Village Sumberjo, Blitar, East Java

The Lakes of Mount Kelimutu

Kelimutu is a volcano, close to the small town of Moni about 50 km to the east of Ende, Indonesia in central Flores Island of Indonesia.  The volcano contains three striking summit crater lakes of varying colors.

Tiwu Ata Mbupu (Lake of Old People) is usually blue and is the westernmost of the three lakes. The other two lakes, Tiwu Nuwa Muri Koo Fai (Lake of Young Men and Maidens) and Tiwu Ata Polo (Bewitched or Enchanted Lake) are separated by a shared crater wall and are typically green or red respectively.

 The lake colors vary on a periodic basis. Subaqueous fumaroles are the probable cause of active upwelling that occurs at the two eastern lakes.  The lakes have been a source of minor phreatic eruptions in historical time. 

The summit of the compound 1639-m-high Kelimutu volcano is elongated two km in a WNW-ESE direction; the older cones of Kelido and Kelibara are located respectively three km to the north and two km to the south. The scenic lakes are a popular tourist destination.  Kelimutu is also of interest to geologists because the three lakes are different colors yet are at the crest of the same volcano.

According to the local officer at Kelimutu National Park, the colour changes as a result of chemical reactions resulting from the minerals contained in the lake perhaps triggered by volcano gas activity. Kawah Putih lake in West Java, south of Bandung, is another crater lake in Indonesia with some similarities to the lakes at Kelimutu.

Name of Indonesia

In JIAEA 1850 Volume IV, pages 66-74, George Samuel Windsor Earl (1813-1865) wrote an article "On the Leading Characteristics of the Papuan, Australian and Malay-Polynesian Nations." In his article confirms that Earl has come for the people of the Malay Archipelago Indian Archipelago or to have distinctive name, a distinctive name, because the name is not appropriate Indies and often confused with the mention of another Indian. Earl filed two option names, “Indu-Nesians” or Malayunesia, nesos, in Greek means the Island. Article on page 71 it says, "... the inhabitants of the Indian Archipelago or Malayan Archipelago would Indunesians or Malayunesians Become respectively."

In Volume IV JIAEA it also, pages 252-347, James Richardson Logan (1819-1869) wrote an article The Ethnology of the Indian Archipelago, In early writings, Logan also expressed the need for the typical name for these islands, because the term "Indian Archipelago" is too long and confusing. Logan picked up the discarded Indunesia name Earl, and the replacement letters of u with the letter o so his words better. Thus was born the term Indonesia.

Indonesia for the first time the word appears in the world with 254 pages printed on the paper Logan, "Mr. Earl Suggests Indunesian the Ethnographical term, but rejects it in favor of Malayunesian. I prefer the purely geographical term Indonesia, roomates is merely a shorter Synonym for the Indian Islands or the Indian Archipelago. "When Indonesia proposed the name Logan does not seem to realize that in the future it will be the name of the name of the nation and the country's fourth-largest population rank on earth!

Since then Logan has consistently used the name "Indonesia" in his scientific writings, and the use of this term is slowly spreading among scientists fields of ethnology and geography. In 1884 a professor of ethnology at the University of Berlin named Adolf Bastian (1826-1905) published a book Rodel oder die Inseln des Malayischen Archipel five volumes, containing the results of his research when it wandered into our country in 1864 until 1880. Bastian is a book that popularized the term "Indonesia" in the Dutch scholar, so that could arise contention that the term "Indonesia" was created by Bastian. Opinion is not true that, among others in the Encyclopedie van Nederlandsch-Indie 1918.

Indonesia people who initially used the term "Indonesia" is Suwardi Suryaningrat or Ki Hajar Dewantara. When in the exhaust to the Netherlands in 1913 he established a press bureau under the name Indonesische Pers-bureau.