Indramayu

Geography

Indramayu Regency lies in the north coast of West Java, 107’51-108’36 East Longitude and 6’15-6’40 South Parallel. The administration borders are Subang Regency on the west, Java Sea on the North, Cirebon Regency and Java Sea on the East, Majalengka Regency, Sumedang Regency and Cirebon Regency in the South. The area of the Indramayu Regency territory measuring 204011 Ha in a long Indramayu is well known as the producer of mangoes, rice and the salt-water fish. Indramayu is well known as the producer of mangoes, rice and fish.

Tourism

Tirtamaya Beach is one of the popular tourist attraction in Indramayu. Instead of the scenery, there are also tourist supporting facilities such as Jet Ski rentals. This beach is located 16km from Indramayu dowmtown.

Other Indramayu tourist attractions are:

-Eretan Beach

-Situ Bojongsari

-Situ Bolang

-Kera Colony

-Aria Wiralodra Graveyard

-Ngarot Ceremony

-Al-Zaitun

Arts

Sintren

Sintren or Lain is a local art that still exist until nowadays, especially in the north coast community. Except the mystical feeling, the interesting things about this arts are their unique musical intstrument such as Buyungh, Kendi and Bumbung that made of bamboo.

Topeng Dermayon Dance

This dance has its own uniqueness because of their movement, costumes & its mask.

Tarling

Indramayu is the origin place of Tarling Art during 16th century.

Tarling is a combination between musical instruments and songs that originated took shape of the singer that accompanied only by guitar and bamboo flute (suling).

At the moment it’s growth fastly and adding with modern musical instrument. However classical Tarling is still attract a lot of tourists interest.

Genjring Acrobatic Show

One of the Indramayu’s local traditional arts is the acrobatic show. This show is similar to other acrobatic show that used a one-wheeled bicycle, rope and others.

Genjring/Rebana musical instrument is always played during their performance.

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About Bangka-Belitung

Bangka Belitung Island is a province with archipelago nomenclature. Broadly regional entirely 81, 725, 14 km sq, land width is 16, 424, 14 km sq and wide territorial water is 65,301 km sq, 20% among others represent territorial water of rock. Consist of 2 big islands, Bangka Island and Belitung Island and also 254 islets surrounding them with coastal length is 1,200 km sq, divided in 7 sub-provinces. With excellence of comparability and supported by regional ecosystem of archipelago, coastal area and the island with the other, Bangka Belitung present marine tourism (diving, scuba, snorkeling, fishing and sailing). There are approximately 55 Chinese or Buddhist temples on Bangka alone which are still in use. The Chinese make up at least 20% of the population of Babel. The majority of the Chinese are direct descendants of the coolies who worked the tin mines. The oldest temple is in Batu Rusa, a village along the road from Pangkalpinang to Su¬ngai Liat. A beautifully decorated temple is found near Tayu in the north of Bangka Island.

Tourist Office:

Jl. Merdeka (ex. Wisma Timah IV) Pangkalpinang 33121, Phone. (0717) 437705, 437442 Ext.124 Fax. (0717) 437442

Getting there:

By Garuda Indonesia Airlines from Soekarno Hatta Airport or by boat and plane from Palembang.

Places of Interest

Belitung Island

Belitung Island has stayed natural and unspoilt. Coming here is a bit of an adventure where the tourist has to be more self-sufficient and adaptable. Visitors have to come prepared, bring things like swimwear, diving equipment, medicines, cosmetics, sunglasses and sun cream.

Tanjung Pandan

Tanjung Pandan is the capital city of Babel. The topography consists of lowland and some small areas of swamp while in the middle part there is highland in groups of 150-200 meters above the sea level. It is the second biggest tin producer in Indonesia.

Manggar

Manggar is about 90 km from Tanjungpandan. The main economy activity in Manggar was tin mining. There are many nice places that can be visited like: Serdang beach, Burung Mandi beach, Malang Lepau beach, Pengepangan beach, Tirta Surya natural swimming pool, Payak Lake, Kwan In Chinese temple.

Matras and Parai Tenggiri Beaches

Matras and Parai Tenggiri Beaches in the northeast of Bangka, 48 km. from Pangkal Pinang and 12 km from Sungai Liat. The beach is about 3 kilometers long and its width is almost 30 metres. Parai, a beach set between rocky capes is an ideal location for relaxing and swimming. Local fishermen moor their vessels here after a day of fishing, giving the beach the picturesque feel of a fishing village.

Mount Menumbung

Mount Menumbung (355 m) a rather high hill in the neighbourhood of Mentok (North West Bangka) stands as a memorial to the history of the Indonesian nation. A guest house which was built here by the Dutch in 1932 was used to house the former President Soe¬karno and Vice-President Hatta during their imprisonment from February to July 1949.

Remodong Beach

Remodong Beach in North Bangka is a favourite place to enjoy the sunset as the beach faces the west. Tourist facilities are also available on this beach.

Bangka

The name Bangka is derived from the word “WANGKA”, which means tin. This word was also written in a Sriwijaya stone inscription dated 686AD and discovered near the town of Kota Kapur in West Bangka. Today this inscription is kept in the National Museum in Jakarta. Bangka is the main tin producer in Indonesia and is also well-known for its white pepper. The group of islands making up the Babel province is almost located on the equator with latitude of 1 degree 30 to 3 degree 07 and a longitude of 105 to 107 degrees east.

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Taman Mini Indonesia Indah - Exploring Indonesia in One Day

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah or Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park was built to be the showcase of Indonesia, in this park visitors will find many Indonesia natural & cultural richness such as unique replication of traditional houses (pavilion) from all around Indonesia, an Indonesia archipelago shaped lake and many other fascinating attraction. The park is an Ideal spot for week-end family outing and also international tourist who did not have enough time to explore Indonesia.

It started with the idea of the late Ibu Tien Soeharto (former Indonesia first lady). The construction of TMII began in 1971 and it was official inaugurated on April 20, 1975.

Since its existence and in the course of time TMII continues to grow and developed in line with the dynamism of the community life of Indonesia. People are the more aware of the great advantages of the existence of TMII, with the mission to be a vehicle for the preservation and development of the culture and a means to strengthen the unity and integrity of the people of Indonesia.

TMII is considered as a vehicle presenting the diversity of the people of Indonesia and the variety of cultural wealth enables the community to gain interesting experience, knowledge and information regarding various aspect of culture, tradition, customs, forms of art as far as the introduction of cultural objects.

The beauty and cultural wealth presented by TMII can easily be observed by the community through the availability of a more complete and interactive means of information. It is expected that through the website the information can be disseminated widely all over the Archipelago and even abroad so that it will facilitate the community to better know about the culture and customs of the people of Indonesia.

Province Pavilions

The bulk of the facilities at TMII is made up of the regional pavilions. With more than twenty five pavilions to walk through, representative of the architecture of each province of Indonesia, the visitor is provided a very unique opportunity to view the breadth and scale of the full range of regional architecture. Each pavilion presents at least three typical examples of the regional style it represents.

Don`t have the time or the fortitude to venture to distant or out-ot-the-way locations? No need. Visit every pavilion and you will come away with a very clear impression of the diversity and richness of Indonesian architectural and living styles. To point out just a view, there is the `Bogonjong` house of the Ranah Minang from West Sumatra, a `Lamin` of the Dayak people from deep in the interior of East Kalimantan, a `Tongkongan` from Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi, a traditional Batak `Bolon` house from North Sumatra; a `Joglo` house from Central Java, etc.

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