Balinese Dancer

Balinese dance

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Balinese dances are a very ancient dance tradition that is a part of the religious and artistic expression among the Balinese people.

General description
In Hinduism, dance is an accompaniment to the perpetual dissolving and reforming of the world. The creative and reproductive balance is often personified as Shiva's wife, Durga, sometimes called Uma, Parvati, or Kali. This has significance in Balinese Hinduism, since the common figure of Rangda is similar in many ways to Durga^[1].


Variants
In Bali there are various categories of dance^[2], including epic performances such as the omnipresent Mahabharata^[3] and Ramayana. Certain ceremonies at village temples feature a special performance of a dance-drama, a battle between the mythical characters Rangda, the witch representing evil, and Barong, the lion or dragon, representing good.

Jamu Sellers

Jamu

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Jamu (formerly Djamu) is traditional medicine in Indonesia. It is predominantly herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as parts of plants such as roots, leaves and bark, and fruit. There is also material from the bodies of animals, such as bile of goat or alligator used.


In many large cities jamu herbal medicine is sold on the street by hawkers carry a refreshing drink, usually bitter but sweetened with honey. Herbal medicine is also produced in factories by large companies such as Air Mancur, Nyonya Meneer or Djamu Djago, and sold at various drug stores in sachet packaging. Packaged dried jamu should be dissolved in hot water first before drinking. Nowadays herbal medicine is also sold in the form of tablets, caplets and capsules.

Semar Badranaya

Semar
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Semar is a character in Javanese mythology who frequently appears in wayang shadow plays. He is one of the punokawan (clowns), but is in fact divine and very wise. He is the dhanyang (guardian spirit) of Java,and is regarded by some as the most sacred figure of the kotak (wayang set). He is said to be the god Sang Hyang Ismaya in human form. The name Semar is said to derive from the Javanese word samar ("dim, obscure, mysterious"). He is often referred to with the honorific, "Kyai Lurah Semar" ("the venerable chief").

Bamboo and Mountain

Bamboo

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Bamboo is a group of perennial evergreens in the true grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. In bamboo, the internodal regions of the stem are hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement. The dicotyledonous woody xylem is also absent. The absence of secondary growth wood causes the stems of monocots, even of palms and large bamboos, to be columnar rather than tapering.^[1]


Bamboos are some of the fastest growing plants in the world,^[2] due to a unique rhizome-dependent system. Bamboos are of notable economic and cultural significance in South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia, being used for building materials, as a food source, and as a versatile raw product.

Halimun Geni

Randu Bhoyo

Randu Bhoyo is a warrior nomads who came from "Kadipaten Pasir, South Borneo". He holds a "Damn Strange Gods". In his wanderings, Randu Bhoyo then settled on Java Island. Randu Bhoyo is the adoptive brother of Ken Arok and became a place to draw a wide range of science before Ken Arok became King Tumapel (Singhasari) in the year 1222 AD.

Randu Bhoyo has many bestfriend in his wanderings. Some of them are Singo Rijalupati, Bango Supatan, Lembu Priyotho, Kebo Sariman, and Gagak Nayakan.

Randu Bhoyo is a hilarious character, high knowledgeable, smart, and not arrogant. The warrrior who have a half bloded of Java and Mandar is also involved in the battle against Kolo Sadeki in Sempu Island. In a duel, Randu Bhoyo beat Walang Sabit.

Nature

Nature

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Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.


The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth".Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis (φύσις), which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord.The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage was confirmed during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries.

Rastaman

Rastafari movement

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The Rastafari movement, or Rasta, is a spiritual movement. It arose in the 1930s in Jamaica, a country with a predominantly Christian culture where 98% of the people were the black descendants of slaves. Most of its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (ruled 1930–1974), as God incarnate, the Second Advent, or the reincarnation of Jesus. Members of the Rastafari movement are known as Rastas, or Rastafari. The movement is sometimes referred to as "Rastafarianism", but this term is considered derogatory and offensive by some Rastas, who, being highly critical of "isms" (which they see as a typical part of "Babylon culture"), dislike being labelled as an "ism" themselves. The name Rastafari is taken from Ras Tafari, the pre-regnal title of Haile Selassie I, composed of Amharic Ras (literally "Head", an Ethiopian title equivalent to Duke), and Haile Selassie's pre-regnal given name, Tafari. Rastafari are generally distinguished for asserting the doctrine that Haile Selassie I, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia, is another incarnation of the Christian God, called Jah. Most see Haile Selassie I as Jah or Jah Rastafari, who is the second coming of Jesus Christ onto the Earth, but to others he is simply God's chosen king on earth.

Voyage of the People

Voyage of the people are business people who are traditional and have special characteristics to carry out the transport in waters with sailboats including Pinisi, motor yachts, and / or simple-flagged motor vessel Indonesia with a certain size. Voyage of the people has the nation's cultural values ​​are not only found in the way of business management as well as managers, for example about the working relationship between the owner of the ship with the crew, but also on the type and form of ship used.
 
The role of voyage of the people concerned has declined and in line with the development of ship technology that may lead to faster ships and bigger which in turn is more economical.

Dewi Sekartaji

Biography
Dewi Sekartaji was born in Kediri, East Java, Indonesia. She is a daughter of King Kediri (formerly known as the Kingdom Dhaha) called King Lembu Amiluhur.
Trail tread Dewi Sekartaji whose real name is Princess Candra Kirana Galuh still exists in Kediri, which is famous Sekartaji Park, which formerly used to make playground Princess of Kadiri.

Dewi Sekartaji has a beautiful face unmatched in his time.
Only a man who really loved at the time. Men brave and handsome knight was Raden Panji Asmara Bangun or better known as Andhe-Andhe Lumut. He is the son of King Jenggala.


Love Story
Some folk tales such as 'Golden Conch', 'Andhe-Andhe Lumut' and 'Golden Puppet' is a derivative of this story where each has the same moral message that happiness is sometimes necessary to sacrifice, and if we are steadfast and patient must all odds can be overcome.

Bali Barong

Barong (mythology)

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Barong is a lion-like creature and character in the mythology of Bali, Indonesia. He is the king of the spirits, leader of the hosts of good, and enemy of Rangda, the demon queen and mother of all spirit guarders in the mythological traditions of Bali. The battle between Barong and Rangda is featured in Barong dance to represent the eternal battle between good and evil.^[1]

Origin
In Balinese mythology, the good spirit is identified as Banas Pati Raja. Banas Pati Raja is the fourth "brother" or spirit child that accompanies a child throughout their life, which is a similar concept to guardian angels. Banas Pati Raja is the spirit which animates Barong. A protector spirit, he is often represented as a lion. The Barong is often portrayed accompanied by two monkeys. Barong is portrayed as a lion with red head, covered in white thick fur, and wearing gilded jewelry adorned with pieces of mirrors. The shape of lion Barong is somewhat similar to a Pekingese dog.