Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat

Hadiningrat Ngayogyakarta Kraton or Sultan Palace is a palace official who is now the Sultanate Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat located in the city of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Although the empire has officially become part of the Republic of Indonesia in 1950, the palace complex of buildings is still functioning as a place to live the sultan and his court of households that are still running the imperial tradition until today. Kraton is now also one tourist attraction in the city of Yogyakarta. Part of the palace complex is a museum that holds many collections owned by the empire, including a variety of gifts from the kings of Europe, the replica heritage palace, and gamelan. In terms of its building, this palace is one example of Javanese palace architecture of the best, has a luxurious hall, conference hall and a wide field and pavilion.
Start the Yogyakarta Palace was founded by the lane after the first few months in the year 1755 Giyanti Agreement. The location of this palace is said to have named a former pesanggarahan Garjitawati. This guesthouse is used to break funeral procession kings of Mataram (Kartasura and Surakarta) which will be buried in Imogiri. Another version mentions the location of the palace is a fountain, Umbul Pacethokan, which is in the middle Beringan forest. Before occupying the Palace of Yogyakarta, Sultan Hamengkubuwono I stayed in Ambergris Pesanggrahan Ketawang which now includes the District of Sleman District Gamping.
Physically, the palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta has seven core complex Siti Hinggil LER (North Hall), Kamandhungan LER (Kamandhungan North), Sri Manganti, Kedhaton, Kamagangan, Kamandhungan Kidul (Kamandhungan South), and Siti Hinggil Kidul (the South Hall). Besides Yogyakarta Palace has a variety of cultural heritage that shaped both the ceremony and antiquities and historic. On the other hand, Yogyakarta Palace is also a traditional institution complete with indigenous stakeholders. Therefore not surprising that the values of philosophy as well as mythology enveloping the Yogyakarta Palace.

Ceremony sekaten

Sekaten is a royal ceremony held for seven days. It is said the origin of this ceremony since the kingdom of Demak. This ceremony is actually a celebration of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad. According to folklore Sekaten word creed comes from the term in the Islamic religion, Syahadatain. Sekaten began with the release of two sets of gamelan Sekati, KK and KK Nagawilaga Guntur Madu, from the palace to be placed in the South and North Pagongan in front of the mosque gedhe. For seven days, from day-to-6-11-month to Mulud, both devices gamelan is played / sounded alternately mark the celebration sekaten. On the night of the eighth Sultan or his nominated representative, performing the ceremony Udhik-Udhik, the tradition spread coins (coins). After that the Emperor or his representatives entered the mosque to listen to the recitation maulid gedhe prophet and listened to the reading of biographies of the prophet. Finally on the last day of the ceremony closed with Garebeg Mulud. During sekaten Sego tasty (crispy rice) and Endhog Abang (red egg) is typical of a lot of food for sale. There were also betel nut, and flower magnolia (Michelia alba; family Magnoliaceae). Currently in addition to such traditional ceremonies were also held an evening market that began a month before the actual solemnization sekaten