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exhibition, theater
& dance,
cultural
performances,
music & concert, movie
screenings and others
events
on JULY 2010.
Special art event on JULY:
ART|JOG|10
featuring 158 artists with more than 170 artworks at Taman
Budaya Yogyakarta.
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Jogja
Art 2010 showcases diversity on visual arts
Now in its third year, Art Jogja 2010 —
“Indonesian Art Now: The Strategies of Being”
represents Indonesian contemporary art and accommodates many
different trends and themes in today’s visual art scene.
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Javanese
Macaque
 A
Mask of a Monkey Man educate his Macaque, and teach it a lot
of tricks and funny gags, until animal will be smart enough
to go out with his teacher to earn some money. you can meet
those couples (as hawkers) every day and everywhere walking
our streets.
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Priceless
Loyalty to the Sultan
 About
3,000 abdi dalem — which loosely translates
as royal servants — serve the sultan and his extended
family. In return, they receive a minimal monthly salary ranging
from Rp 8,000 to Rp 62,500 (90 cents to $7).
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Tourists
Provide Bountiful Harvest for Villages
The community-based program, which began two
years ago, provides direct grants to villages to help them
develop their tourism sector through the National Program
for Community Development (PNPM). There have been may successes.
Candirejo village, near Borobudur Temple in Central Java,
hosted 3,000 visitors last year, most of them foreigners,
and banked about Rp 200 million.
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Armada
Racun: Yogyakarta's punk
Armada Racun offers quirky music for the local
musical scene. The punk rock outfit doesn’t have a lead
guitar but instead opt for two bass guitars, drums and a keyboard.
It took four years for the trio to get their first official
release. Their first album was in limbo for years.
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Thousands
join bicycle carnival in Yogyakarta
No less than 3,000 cyclists from across the
country joined the Jogja Onthel Carnival in Yogyakarta on
Sunday morning as part of an effort to revive the culture
of cycling once characterized the sultanate city.
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Female
Drivers Make History, And Money, at Islamic Caucus
Indonesia’s second-largest Islamic organization
has given its endorsement to female motorcycle taxi drivers
during its ongoing national congress in Yogyakarta, rebuffing
a fatwa issued by East Java clerics in January that banned
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Art
Exhibition Coloring a Century of Muhammadiyah
Commemorating ‘1 Abad Muktamar Muhammadiyah
2010 – A Century of Muhammadiyah Organization Congress’,
a group of artists will held an Islamic visual art exhibition
titled ‘Seni Rupa Islam – Islamic Visual Arts’.
This exhibition will take place at two venues, the Student
Center of Jogjakarta Muhammadiyah University (July 2 - 9)
and at Posnya Seni Godod (July 1 - 16).
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