UKM Gallery: Preserving The Indonesian Heritage

Jakarta as a barometer of cities in Indonesia, currently has a new shopping destination that offers high quality  products made by Indonesia's finest suppliers, namely UKM Gallery in SMESCO Building, South Jakarta. It sales many wonderful craft products, such as Batik Tulis from many regions, Padang and Palembang's Kain Songket, Nusa Tenggara's Kain Tenun, many beautiful handicrafts, furnitures, a wide range of carefully selected jewellery and accessories fashioned on the latest styles, including all-natural international spa kits.

Opened on 3 April 2009 by The Minister of Cooperatives Small and Medium Enterprises, it sells diverse works of the talented craftsperson nationwide with competitive price in its UKM Gallery retail outlet occupying 3 floors of the main building of SMESCO UKM.

The products here are made by Indonesian craftsmen with the best quality and some of these products are exported to several countries. The mission of UKM Gallery is to promote cultural heritage of Indonesia by introducing high quality Indonesian products not only to Indonesians, but also the world.

Contacts:
UKM GALLERY
SMESCO UKM Main Building, G-3rd Floor
Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto Kav.94 Jakarta 12780 - Indonesia
Phone: 62.21 2753 5400 (Hunting), Fax: 62.21 7919 4628
mailto : info@smescoindonesia.com
www.smescoindonesia.com

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Jakarta Fashion & Food Festival 2010

JFFF 2010 - Transforming Indonesia Into Global Taste



JFFF 2010 or JF3 is the annual food and fashion festival that celebrate every May in 12th - 23rd May 2010 at Summarecon Kelapa Gading. JFFF always shown its support of local products, especially those applications seeking Indonesian art and culture, with a modern appearance and does not impress old fashion.

HERITAGEOUS
This year, JF3 theme is Heritageous. It means Heritage and Gorgeous.

FOOD FESTIVAL



Located in La Piazza, Summarecon Kelapa Gading, the Food Festival serving you all of The Indonesian unique culinary. The " Tempo Doeloe " still be theme in Food Festival. Tempo Doeloe means The Past.

From Acehnese culinary, Palembang Culinary, Bangka Culinary, Jakartan culinary or "Betawi Culinary", Javanese Culinary, Manadonian Culinary, Makassar's Culinary and many more Indonesian culinary that we cannot wrote it because Indonesia is an unique country with more than 500 tribes, more than 300 dialects, more than 17.500 islands.

FASHION FESTIVAL



With 65 supercalifragilisticexpialidociously great fashion designers, We think Fashion Festival will be an outstanding festival. On the way to better become JFFF Trade Show, in addition to the presence of Fashion Village, a series of courses Fashion Extravaganza will feature four categories of excellence, namely Indonesian Designer Label - special products which are produced ready to wear designers Indonesia, the Indonesian Exclusive Designer, which displays collections masterpieces from the designers of Indonesia, Indonesia Fashion Brand, and International Fashion Brand.

I hope so you will come to JFF annual festival. See you!

Old City or Kota Tua

The old city, located in North Jakarta. This is the heritage from the colonial era. Among the tall buildings in Jakarta there are still old buildings like that, here too there is a museum of an age old enough Fatahillah. Also provided ontel bicycle to tour the old city with the price of 20 000 rupiah / hour.

8th Indonesia Tourism & Culture Expo 2010

Date : 27th - 30th May 2010
Place: Jakarta Convention Center Hall A

This Annual event is the most complete and the largest on tourist object, tourism place , and national brand product for souvenirs and etc.

Indonesia Tourism & Culture Expo is an annual event organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and PT. Wahyu Promo Citra since 2003 with the main aim to increase the visits of domestic and foreign tourists to tourist objects throughout Indonesia in the framework of making successful Visit Indonesia 2010.

This year, the event presents more than 250 prime tourist objects from all provinces in Indonesia, consisting of cultural, religious, maritime, culinary outbound and natural tourist objects, domestic travel packages, souvenir products, handicrafts and other supporting products.

As part of the exhibition, a number of important and interesting programs are organized such as:

• Indonesia Traditional Dance Festival 2010
• Indonesia Batik Fashion Show 2010
• Indonesia Batik Painting Demo 2010
• Indonesia Regional Tourism Dialog 2010
• Indonesia Domestic Tourist Package Bourse 2010
• Indonesia Hotel, Resort and Restaurant Table Top 2010
• Indonesia Ethnic Band Festival 2010
• Indonesia Tourist Object Photography Competition 2010
• Indonesia Tourism Coloring Competition 2010

For further information:
www.gwn-ina.com
www.indonesia.travel

Jakarta - The Metropolis City

Special Region of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta, Jakarta Raya) is the capital of Indonesia. The city is the only one in Indonesia that has province-level status. Jakarta is located in the northwestern part of Java Island. Once known as the Sunda Kelapa / Kalapa (before 1527), Jayakarta (1527-1619), Batavia (1619-1942), and Djakarta (1942-1972).



In 2004, the area is approximately 740 km ² and a population of 8,792,000 inhabitants [2]. Jakarta with metropolitan Jabotabek with a population of approximately 23 million inhabitants is the largest metropolitan areas in Indonesia or a sixth of the world. Jabotabek area now has been integrated with the Greater Bandung area, where Megapolis Jabotabek-Bandung Raya covering approximately 30 million people, which puts this region Megapolis second world, after Tokyo Megapolis.



Currently the entrance to the Jakarta International Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and Port of Tanjung Priok. Since the year 2004 under the leadership of Governor Sutiyoso, Jakarta has an integrated transportation modes, known as TransJakarta. In addition to the state court, Jakarta is also the headquarters of Bank Indonesia and the Indonesia Stock Exchange.



Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) is a cultural tourist areas in Jakarta. Located at coordinates 6 ° 18'6 .8 "S, 106 ° 53'47 .2" BT, in the middle there is a lake TMII depicting the great Indonesian archipelago in small form.


In Indonesia, almost every tribe has a shape and a different style buildings, not even a tribe rarely have more than one type of traditional buildings. Building or traditional architecture which they have always in the background by environmental conditions and culture owned. In TMII, the picture is realized through the Pavilion area, which represents tribes located in 26 provinces of Indonesia.




In the program "Enjoy Jakarta" in the year 2005, administration of tourism in developing shopping centers (known as "mall" or "plaza") contained in Jakarta. In addition to government and commercial center, the government also launched the Jakarta as a city of shopping, as well as Singapore and Tokyo. To realize Jakarta as a shopping destination, the government developed Casablanca-axis as the axis Satrio shopping. Jakarta is currently one of the cities in Asia which has many shopping centers. Several major shopping centers, among others; Mall of Indonesia, Mall Artha Gading, Puri Indah Mall, Mall Taman Anggrek , Mal Kelapa Gading, Mal Pondok Indah, Kelapa Gading Sports Mall, Plaza Semanggi, Plaza Senayan, One Pacific Place, Mangga Dua, and Plaza Indonesia. In shopping centers are attending various international franchises such as Starbucks, Sogo Department Store, fast food restaurant chain McDonalds. In addition, the company's national franchise companies also fills the shopping centers, such as Es Teler 77, J. Co, and noodle Gajah Mada. In addition to shopping centers luxury, Jakarta also has many traditional markets managed by PD Pasar Jaya, among others, the Tanah Abang market became the largest textile wholesale center in Southeast Asia. In addition, there is also a hypermarket is a middle-class spending trends in Jakarta, including Carrefour, Hypermart, Giant, Ranch Market, and Makro. For the scope of the environment, shopping centers are also available daily needs at affordable prices like Indomaret and Alfamart.

2 Islands, in Thousand Islands

Princess Island

Princess Island is located adjacent to the northern Thousand Islands. Because of its distance away from Jakarta, more practical people achieve by using airplanes. From Kemayoran, made the flight to Long Island near the Princess Island. From Long Island, the journey continued with a motor boat to the Princess Island. Location of the Princess Island isolated and withdrawn from the islands other. Beautiful white sandy beaches. Princess island is ornamental fish aquarium, underwater aquarium, tennis courts, and the lizard in a mini zoo. This island lies far enough from Jakarta to make the sea around the island is ideal for swimming, snorkeling, and diving.

Rainbow Island

Rainbow Island including one cluster of the Island Princess, Island Petondan, Sepa Island and Island Gnetum gnemon. The distance the island from Marina Beach, Ancol, about 108 kilometers. On this island is also a tourist lodge restaurant located on land or floating. Rainbow Island is a favorite place of tourists from Japan. The couple from Japan usually chose this island as a place of their honeymoon. In fact, Japanese airlines - Japan Airlines (JAL), set up its own vacation package to the island rainbow. But this time the resort is not operating.