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By noorsabri on May 26, 2008 in art, culture, people | 9 Comments
Those lovely ladies are singers in shadow puppet performance. We call them sinden or pesinden. They sing all night long since the performance usually starts at 7pm and will be ended at around 5am in the morning.
The one wearing jasmine arrangement on her hair is the primadona, and she’s the youngest among them.
By noorsabri on Apr 13, 2008 in city tour, people | 2 Comments
dated back to the 70’s when Jogja was predominated by bicycle as mode of transportation. it was a common habit among people of rural areas around Jogja to go to the city by bike every morning. labors went to their workplaces, and peasants transported crops and vegetables from their fields to big markets (we […]
By noorsabri on Mar 31, 2008 in culture, people | 1 Comment
Abdi dalem are people who voluntarily subjugate their services to the Kraton (palace) and Sultan and his extended family. They prepare almost all of Sultan’s daily necessities and perform Javanese traditional ceremonies, inside and outside Kraton. Abdi dalems are organized based on functional services, where they inherited such title of service prior to Sultan’s official […]
