News Indonesia Yogyakarta: Indonesia Intel: Takeaways From the Jogja Festival and Market
The 19th edition of Indonesia’s Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF) was its most successful one yet and the inaugural JAFF Market proved to be an auspicious debut. Variety was present to report on ...
News Indonesia Yogyakarta: Indonesia hopes to develop more tourism sites
Yogyakarta: Hundreds of tourists ... The 9th century temple is in the center of Indonesia’s Java Island, a densely populated region with stunning vistas. Other highlights include the towering Hindu ...
News Indonesia Yogyakarta: Not just Bali: Indonesia to develop more tourism sites
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: Hundreds of tourists, many of them young Westerners, sat on grey stone steps atop the world's largest Buddhist temple, occasionally checking mobile phones or whispering to each other as they waited for daylight.
News Indonesia Yogyakarta: Not just Bali: Indonesia hopes to develop more tourism sites
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Hundreds of tourists, many of them young Westerners, sat on gray stone steps atop the world’s largest Buddhist temple, occasionally checking cellphones or whispering to each ...
News Indonesia Yogyakarta: This region of Indonesia was known for its religious harmony. Now, Catholics face growing intolerance.
The city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, was once the “poster child” of pluralism where Muslims and Catholics lived in religious harmony. But recently, that notion has changed as hardline Muslim “pressure ...
News Indonesia Yogyakarta: New Yogyakarta airport serves 1,000 passengers per day but still not finished
The occupancy is pretty good. It is always above 50 percent on every flight. About 1,000 passengers travel through YIA in one day, said YIA general manager Pandu Pramana at the airport over the weekend.
News Indonesia Yogyakarta: Indonesia’s New Yogyakarta International Airport Opens
SINGAPORE—Indonesia’s new Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA) opened for operations May 6; it was built to replace the over-capacity Adisutjipto International Airport and is located in ...
News Indonesia Yogyakarta: On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home
KALIBIRU, Indonesia — For years, Parjan hoped his community might one day gain title to the Menoreh Hills. The green valley northwest of the Javan city of Yogyakarta was tilled and tended to by ...
News Indonesia Yogyakarta: How intolerance can persist in democratic countries: the case of Indonesia
The capital, Jakarta, and former capital, Yogyakarta, located about 500km southeast from Jakarta, are top of the list on the Indonesia Democracy Index. But they are also listed as the most intolerant ...
News Indonesia Yogyakarta: Malaysia arrests suspected militants over IS plots
Malaysia and Indonesia, both Muslim-majority countries ... had undergone bomb-making training in (the Indonesian city of) Yogyakarta in 2018 which was conducted by the terror group Jemaah Ansharut ...
