Solo International Ethnic Music Festival to be held in September

Solo International Ethnic Music Festival and Conference (SIEM) will be held in Solo, Central Java Province, on September 1-5, 2007.

The ethnic music festival and conference would be participated in by domestic as well as foreign musicians, Yasudah, chairman of the SIEM organizing committee, said here on Thursday.

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Jakarta Fair kicks up heels in grand opening

The annual monthlong Jakarta Fair officially opened Thursday (June, 14th) with a new look.

When it started in 1968 to help celebrate Jakarta’s anniversary on June 22, the fair was more about providing entertainment and discount goods.

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Jakarta Anniversary festival begins

This year’s Jakarta Anniversary Festival (JAF), which opened Friday, celebrates the 480th anniversary of the capital.

The theme of the 2007 festival is: “My Jakarta, Your Jakarta, Our Jakarta”, cultural and museum agency head Aurora Frida Tambunan said Monday.

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Bali Comes Clean

Bali’s most populace regency of Badung has won, for the fifth year running, the coveted Adipura Award for municipal cleanliness and environmental excellence.

The trophy, presented by President Yudhoyono to the Regent (Bupati) of Badung A.A. Gede Agung in Jakarta, arrived in Bali on Thursday, June 7, 2007 where it was escorted by a motorcade of well-wishers from Bali’s airport to the nearby district (Camat) office in Kuta. Upon arrival at the Kuta District Office, the corps of the Badung Cleaning Brigade (Pasukan Sapu Jagat) gathered to hear Agung expressed his appreciation for their hard work and dedication which made the award possible.

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Terra Incognita – Photographs by Darwis Triadi

Bare Beauty as Indonesia’s Leading Fashion Photographer Explores the Female Form July 2 – 26, 2007 at the Four Season’s Ganesha Gallery.

(6/2/2007) Although Darwis Triadi is best known as one of Indonesia’s top fashion photographers, his latest exhibition “Terra Incognita” at the Four Seasons Resort at Jimbaran Bay demonstrates that he is also a talented artist. Originally trained as a commercial pilot, Triadi’s career begin in the early 1980s when he burst onto Jakarta’s budding fashion scene. A convinced autodidact, his stubborn self assurance and new ideas, unfettered by experience, combined with an indomitable personal energy that quickly saw him rise to the top of fashion photography in the space of a few years.

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