A. Brief Information The Great Mosque of Demak is the evidence of the vast dissemination of Islamic teachings in Java Island, starting from the era of Demak Bintoro Sultanate. For that reason, the mosque is assumed to be one of the oldest mosques in the Indonesian Archipelago. ...

A. Brief InformationGadjah Mada University (UGM) was established on December 19th, 1949 by the royal administrative of Yogyakarta Palace. At its early years, most of teaching and learning activities were conducted in two buildings; Siti Hinggil and Pagelaran Kraton Yogyakarta (Mansion of ...

A. Brief InformationFor either domestic or foreign tourists,  enjoying twilight in Bali Island will not be complete yet before witnessing the  beautiful sunset of Kuta Beach. Kuta Beach is totally different from Sanur  Beach, which offers you a magnificent view of sunrise. ...

anoi - The 29th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Tourism Forum opened in Hanoi on Tuesday, with participants seeking solutions to boost tourism that was heavily hit by global economic downturn. Tran Chien Thang, Vice Minister of Vietnamese Culture, Sports and Tourism Ministry, said ...

Muara Town - Serasa Recreational Beach, located 4km from Muara Town, is one of the main attractions for tourists to Brunei, especially during the weekends and public holidays. Tourists are offered beautiful landscape of Teluk Brunei and Muara Port, as well as water sports activities, such as ...

Jakarta -The Indonesian tourism industry contributed up to Rp 70 trillion (US$6.35 billion) to the national economy in 2008, an official at the Culture and Tourism Ministry said Monday. According to the ministry`s director general of marketing, Sapta Nirwandar, tourism-generated income was driven ...

Attracting 6.4 million foreign tourists to a country so rich in sights and experiences that few places in the world can match it should be an easy task, even without an expensive government campaign. Yet somehow it wasn’t. Even with months of preparations and extensive promotions as ...

Michael Boyce Indonesia is lucky. Lucky to be blessed with breathtaking vistas, a people whose spirit of hospitality comes easily, a fascinating culture both preserved in history and lived out daily, and biodiversity matched by few countries in the world. And the food isn`t bad either. ...

Winding road to heaven: Fatigue that came from hours spent on the long, narrow and snaking roads in a bus and on a 40-minute boat-ride finally wore-off when Zalina Mohd Som set her eyes on the breathtakingly beautiful Lake Toba. Medan - BETWEEN our arrival at Medan`s Polonia International ...

By: Jean Michaud and Sarah Turner Abstract This paper examines a situation of national and international tourism development in post-socialist Vietnam, as it unfolds in the small northern hill-station town of Sa Pa. It investigates to what extent tourism dynamics today can be seen to be ...

By:Soehardi HartonoIntroduction Dating back to the time when its embryonic urban layout was initially created, Medan is considered a fairly new city. It has become recognized as an urbanized area with some basic relevant attributes less than 150 years ago. As similarly happened to other ...