Lawang Sewu

represents a building in Semarang, Central Java, which is the office of the Nederlands-Indische Maatschappij Spoorweg or NIS. Built in 1904 and completed in 1907. Tugu Muda is located at the first roundabout called Wilhelmina Plein.
Local people call it Lawang Sewu (Thousand Door). This is because the building has a lot of doors (in fact the door that there was not until a thousand, maybe also because the window height and width of this building, people also consider it as a door).
Ancient buildings and stately two-story was used as an office after the independence of the Railway Bureau of Indonesia (DKARI) or now PT Kereta Api Indonesia. Also never been used as an Office Facility Board of the Regional Military Command (Kodam IV / Diponegoro) and Regional Office (Regional Office) Department of Transportation, Central Java. During the struggle of this building has its own historical record of events during a five-day battle in Semarang (14 October to 19 October 1945) in this old building became the location of a great battle between youth AMKA or Youth Train against Kempetai and Kidobutai, Japan. Therefore, Semarang City Government Mayor SK 650/50/1992, embodying Lawang Sewu as one of 102 ancient or historic buildings in the city of Semarang, which should be protected.
When this 181-year-old building is empty and notorious as a haunted buildings and spooky. Occasionally used as a place of exhibition, among them Expo.Pernah Semarang Tourism Expo and there is also a discourse that wants to turn it into a hotel. In 2007, the building was also used for the film of the same name ie mace Sewu.

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

Sangiran

Sangiran is an archaeological site in Java, Indonesia. This area has an area of 48 km ² and is located in Central Java, 15 kilometers north of Surakarta in Solo River valley and is situated at the foot of Mount Lawu. Sangiran administratively located in Sragen regency and district of Karanganyar in Central Java. Sangiran in 1977 appointed by the Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia as a cultural heritage. In 1996 the site was listed in UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In 1934 anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald begin research in the area. In subsequent years, the results of excavations discovered the remains of the first human ancestor, Pithecanthropus erectus ("Java Man"). There are about 60 more fossils of other fossil Meganthropus palaeojavanicus them have been found at these sites.
Sangiran Museum, located in this region too, described the history of Homo erectus from about 2 million years ago until 200,000 years ago, namely from the late Pliocene age to late middle Pleistocene. In this museum there are 13 086 collection of hominid fossils and an upright hominid site the most comprehensive in Asia. It also can be found in vertebrate fossils, animal fossils of water, rocks, fossils of sea plants and stone tools.
Initially the research Sangiran is a dome called Sangiran Dome. Summit dome is then opened through a process of erosion to form a depression. In the depression that can be found in soil layers that contain information about life in the past.

Prambanan Temple


In the year 1733, this temple was found by the CA. Lons a Dutch nationality, later in the year 1855 Jan Willem IJzerman began to clean and move some rocks and soil from the chamber or Roro Jonggrang candi.Candi Prambanan located in the Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia. This temple is located on the island of Java, approximately 20 km east of Yogyakarta, 40 km west of Surakarta and 120 km south of Semarang, right on the border between the provinces of Central Java and Yogyakarta. Rara Jonggrang Candi Prambanan is located in the village whose territory is divided between the districts of Sleman and Klaten.
This temple was built in about the year 850 AD by one of these two, namely: Rakai Pikatan, the second king of Mataram dynasty I or balitung Maha Sambu, during the Sanjaya dynasty.

History records Borobudur is the largest temple ever built for the veneration of the Buddha. Just imagine the building reaches a height of 14.000m to 35.29 sq. m. An inscription from Cri Kahuluan IX century (824 AD) who researched by Prof Dr JG Casparis, revealing the genealogy of Wangsa Syailendra three successive ruling at that time, namely the King Indra, the son Samaratungga. Then, her daughter called Samaratungga Pramodawardhani.

At the beginning of this Samaratungga King built a temple named: Bhumisan, Bharabudhara, which is presumably meant barrow, hill or building levels with the title diidentikan kamulan Bhumisambharabudhara monastery, which has meant a monastery Syailendra Dynasty ancestors and in hilly areas.

The location of this temple is located in the hills above the village of Borobudur, Mungkid, Magelang or sea 42 km south of Yogyakarta city. Surrounded Hill Manoreh stretching from east to west. Meanwhile to the east lies Mount Merapi and Merbau, and on the west side there is Gunumg Sindoro and Mount Cleft.

It takes no fewer than two million blocks of andesite, equivalent square 50.000m to build this temple of Borobudur. Overall weight of the temple to reach 3.5 million tons. Like most buildings of the temple, Bororbudur have three parts of the buildings, ie leg, body and top. Foot building called Kamadhatu, which tells the story of consciousness filled with lust and animalistic traits. Then Ruphadatu, which means a level of human consciousness are still bound by lust, materials and shapes. While no longer bound Aruphadatu lust, materials and shapes depicted in the form of holding an empty stupa. This can be achieved only with the desire and emptiness.

Relief

At every level carved reliefs on temple walls. The reliefs are read according to clockwise or called mapradaksina in Old Javanese language derived from Sanskrit which meaning is daksina east. These reliefs various contents of the story, among other reliefs story of Jakarta.
The reading of these reliefs stories always begin and end on the east side of the gate at every level, starting on the left and ends on the right side of the gate. So significantly that climbed the stairs to the east is the real (main) and toward the top of the temple, it means that the temple facing east while the other sides of similar right.
The composition and distribution of relief on the wall story and balustrade of the temple are as follows.