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Saturday, August 20, 2011

The Culture of Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta Province is often referred to as a cultural city. This area is very well known has a wealth of diverse cultures.

In terms of culture, Yogyakarta Province is still very thick with Javanese culture. In the daily life of art and culture as inseparable and have become part of local community life. Proven start childhood to adulthood, many people in Yogyakarta is very often seen and followed a wide range of arts and culture events in the city.


The tradition has always maintained by most of the people of Yogyakarta. In fact, every stage of life has a meaning. Traditional values ​​are always coloring cultural ceremonies Yogya. For the people of the province of Yogyakarta, art and culture has become one part that seemed inseparable from their lives.

One of the distinctive art kethoprak Yogyakarta region, among others, there is also jathilan, as well as shadow puppets that have become a part of Indonesian culture. In addition the province of Yogyakarta is also well known in the manufacture of traditional clothing with a unique way and style as batik dyed fabric.

In communication, language of instruction daily are generally the people of Yogyakarta using Java language. Yogyakarta Province is one of the centers of literary language such as Java Parama language literature, various literature, dictionary, dialect, and orally in the form sengkala fairy tale, japamantra, pawukon, and Javanese.

To preserve the culture of Yogyakarta there is infrastructure to support the preservation of cultural and creative development of artists in Yogyakarta and until now there are 130 pieces of infrastructure such as a stage art, marquee, exhibition halls, performing arts space, music studios village halls, auditoriums, art galleries, tennis etc..

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