East Java
Province
The Capital
City of East Java Province
is “Surabaya”
The Java’s biggest province, East Java, owns
nature and mountain scenery which are among the most impressive on the island.
With it’s beaches among the most picturesque. The East Javanese mountains, with
their dry air and rugged beauty, are first rate for hiking. Java’s tallest
mountain, 3,676 meters high Mount Semeru, is in East Java. Yet, scenic beaches,
majestic volcanoes and nature reserves are only part of the attractions of East
Java, the island’s biggest province. East Java’s most famous attraction,
however, is Mount Bromo, the desolate volcanic massif offering the most
spectacular sunrise in South East Asia.
East Java was the focus of Javanese
civillation for several centuries when the Majapahit eclipsed the Mataram
empire and ruins are scattered throughout the Brantas valley. As central Java’s
power declined around the 10th century, powerful kingdoms made their
ascent in East Java. The first important king in East Java was Empu Sendok,
whose name emerged in the 9th century A.D. the 10th
century saw the rise to power of Airlangga, one of East Java’s greatest kings.
The progession of powerful kings to dominate the scene continued until it
reached it’s apex in the 13th century, when Gajah Mada became prime
minister of the kingdom of Majapahit.
Founded in 1214 by Raden Wijaya, Majapahit
exerted a profound influence on life and politics barely half a century later.
The empire reached it’s bloom in 1250 under the rule of Queen Tribhuawanottungadewi,
with the aforementioned Gajah Mada as prime minister. It was in this period of
history that practically the entire Indonesia archipelago came under
Majapahit’s iron rule. The period of greatness lasted during the rule of the
queen’s successor, Hayam Wuruk, one of the East Java’s most famous kings. After
Hayam Wuruk’s death in 1311, the empire crumbled, and after 1373 nothing is
heard of the Majapahit dynasty, Moslem began it’s peaceful ascent.
Although East Java’s culture and traditions
are closely affiliated to those of Central Java, they nevertheless dear a
distinctly East Javanese character. Hinduism, too presented a different face in
East Java’s temple architecture differs markedly from that of the central part
of the island. Eas Java’s distinctive character is preserved in the various
apects of it’s culture from music and dance to language and folk
temperament.East Java is a paradise for unorthodox visitors or travellers and
for those who relish antiquities or breathtaking views. Geographically and
historically the provinece could be devided into trhee regions ; The North
Coast including The Island of Madura, The Brantas River Valley, and Eastern
Mountains with spectacular volcanoes, nature reserves and stunning scenery.
Sugar and coffee plantation blanketed East
around Surabaya and Malang are dotted with hill resorts, including Tretes and
Selecta, offering a cool and picturesque escape from the lowland heat. The arid
savannah lands at Java’s North East tip have been declared a nature reserve.
Baluran National Park is home to dozens of animal species along with over 150
types of bird. One of the best surfing sport in the world could be found in the
Banyuwangi Selatan Reserve. Nature lovers should also visit the Meru Betiri
Reserve and Sukamande Turtle Beach. Another exiting spectacle to be seen during
August and September is the annual bull race on the island of Madura.
Surabaya
Surabaya is the seconnd biggest city in
Indonesia and major port as provincial capital city of East Java after Jakarta,
served for over half a millennium as trading port for the island empires of
Java. Situated at the Brantas River, the city was officially founded in 1293
when Raden Widjaya established Majapahit, Indonesia’s most glorious empire on
the site of a legendary battle between a shark (sura) and crocodile (baya),
than combined “Surabaya”.
Surabaya is a booming metropolis of more tha
five million people. As modern city, it boasts many good hotels, shopping
centers, travel facilities and establishments for entertainment. And Surabaya, known as the
“City of Heroes” because of it’s role in the nation’s independence struggle,
has grown into an elegant city of large, colonnaded building bordering broad,
tree shaded avenues.The city’s historical sites include Kali Mas Harbor with
it’s tall masted trading schooners and nearby, the narrow alleyways and shops
of the Arab quarter, redolent of the Middle East. The historic Hotel Majapahit,
where Indonesia’s war of independence was begun, and the elegant Grahadi State Buildings.
An 18th century mantion, have been restored as monuments to an era
of colonial grace.
Surabaya is also home one of South East
Asia’s oldest and largest zoos. The surrounding countysides offer the scenic
beauties of the beaches, green rice paddy fields and colorfull landscape. One
of the most exciting experiennces is watching a magnificent sunrise from the
summit of Mount Bromo. Surabaya serves
as a convenient base for exploring the regions many charms, including Mount
Bromo, the cool mountain retreats of Tretes and Malang also the natural wonders
of several nature reserves. We are could visit there.
Suro
& Boyo Monument
Suro and Boyo Monument is located opposite
the entrance to the zoo. It’s designed as the symbol of Surabaya city as one of
province in Indonesia.
Traditional Costumes
The East of Java's costume present
traditional costume from Madura.The men wear black Pesa'an shirt that symbolize
a bravery, firmness, and zestful.Pesa'an shirt is combined with T-shirt motif
red-white stripe, balck loose pants, wide belt, a shawl cloth on the shoulder,
and head cloth.The traditional head cloth called Odheng Santapan showing social
status and culture identity.The women put on a short Kebaya knotted the edge
and is combined with short Batik Sarong, two hair pins, earrings, Penggel
(tarsus rings).
The object of interests are
Surabaya
Zoo, Trowulan, The Red Bridge, Mpu Tantular Museum, Loka
Jala Crana Museum, DHD 45 Museum, Heroes Monument, Majapahit
Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Kayoon Park
& Flower Market, Submarine
Monument, Blitar, Monumen Gerbong
Maut, Mount Ijen, The Wurung
Crater, Blawan Waterfall, The
Tancak Kembar Waterfall, The Arabica
Coffee AgroWisata, Brass
Handicrafts, Suwar Suwir, Kaliklatak
Plantation, Malang, The Singosari
Temples, The Jago Temples, The
Kidal Temples
Mount
Kawi, etc.
Mount
Bromo
Mount
Bromo located in the impressivelly beautiful Tengger highlands. Mount Bromo
National Park is a major drawcard for visitors to East Java. Also we will take
you to Cemoro Lawang by pony ride across the sea of sand to the foot of Mount
Bromo, climb up the 245 staircase to heaven to the rim of Mount Bromo waiting
for the sunrise is an experience not to be missed. To Mount Bromo is one hour
from Surabaya. Early morning in Mount Bromo excursion riding the sturdy
mountain pony accompanied by the owner in the darkness giving us the idea of
riding into enternity. Few other experiences offer the sense of awe that comes
from standing on Mount Bromo’s crater rim at the time of dawn and watching the
sun touch the clouds that hang over the land down below.
The Bromo crater stands in the middle of a
“Sand Sea” a huge sand filled caldera that came into being in the wake of a
gigantic aruption in prehistoric times. A steep flight of steps leads from the
floor of the caldera to the crater rim, from which point one looks down into
the smoking, rumbling crater of the active volcano on the one side. And the
Sand Sea with the landscape beyond. The deeply turrowed smaller cone of the
exciting Mount Batok nearby amplifies the moonscape like appearance of the
surroundings.
This
alone makes a visit to Mount Bromo worth the effort. The Bromo caldera and
crater, are also the site of a curious ritual observed by the local people, the
Tengger, who come by thousands to pay homage to the Bod of Bromo by hurting
offerings into the crater. The ritual, called Kesada, is held in the tenth
month of the Javanese lunar year, under that full moon.
Batik
Tulis Handicraft
Well,
the Tour Adventure is continued to the area of the “Batik Tulis / Batik Handmade” craftsman. The
craftsman Batik Tulis is met in the
Sumbersari Village, Maesan. Batik Tulis diligence in this area was the only one
that was met in Bondowoso and it’s managed for
generations until currently. The quality and this
motive were very good and this price could
in reached out by all the communities. We could then order them was good the big party and the small party. Or you
wanted to study about batik? Please
coordinated with that related especially with the Batik craftsmen.
Home Industry “Tape”
If
we were tired and want to take something
mills,
it’s will be better we headed towards the craftsman
fermented as the alternative bought the snack contained vitamins B1. Diligence
fermented is typical Bondowoso food, and spread almost in each
corner of the village in the Bondowoso Regency. The requirement for the body
would vitamins B1 could have been fulfilled and the body was felt fresh.
Fermented as the source of vitamins B1, also very good for Ms that just gave
birth in order to restores the new power including could produce HEED, the
illness ambien and could eliminate the pimple. At the same time we could
research the content from fermenting the production of the Bondowoso area. Do you wanted to research them
or already?
Madura
Island
& Suramadu
Visit to Madura for 30 minutes by ferry from
Surabaya’s Tanjung Perak Harbor lies the large or by “Suramadu” Bridge, arid island of Madura. The Venus nearest Surabaya is
the Bangkalan Stadium. With sun-baked cliffs, blinding white sand beaches,
turquoise sea and proud people ready to defend their honour at the drop of a
hat, Madura seems more an East Mediterranean island than Java’s closest
neighbour. Today’s bulls are especially bred for this event and are fed on a
strengthening diet of beer, eggs and
chilli pepers.
Bull
Races
Traditional Bull Races are held regularly in
various towns and cities on the island of Madura. The contests colorful events
in their own right are usually preceded by folk dances. Bull Races are big
events in Madura. Harvest season bull races (August & September) are
Madura’s features attraction. At the crack of a whip, teams of two 600kg oxen,
linked with a wooden yoke with a driver perched precariously on a trailing
sled, hit speeds of 50/ph as they race along a 100m grass field. Begun as a
method to improve the breeding stock, the races (Karapan Sapi) in Madura have
evolved into a gaudy and excisting show with the bulls arrayed in colorful
headdresses and sashes.
The
Beaches
East Java’s beaches are among the pretties on
the whole island of Java. For swimming, boating, snorkeling and skindiving.
Pasir Putih (The White Sand) on the north coast near Situbondo offers calm
waters modest hotels and restaurants. Prigi Beach, on the south coast near
Nganjuk, is a 10 kilometers stretch of clean white sand sheltered inside a bay.
Beautiful beaches are found south of Banyuwangi, in the province’s far eastern
corner. Of considerable fame is Sukamade
“Burtle Beach”, 78 kilometers south of Banyuwangi. Where the sea is deep
green and the plantations lined beach long and deserted. Giant Turtles come
here to lay down their eggs.The Beaches south of the Sadengan wildlife feeding
grounds, also to the south of
Banyuwangi, have beautiful seascapes and
certain areas are good for surfing.
Lombang
Other interests in Madura ; Lombang, is a
beautiful beach with a stretch of casuarinas tees, about 30 km from Sumenep.
Slopeng, is a stretch of beach with sand dunes and palm trees about 20 km from
Sumenep, near the fishing village of Ambunten on the north coast. Camplong, is
about 15 km short of Pamekasan, on the
south coast is Camplong a fine, sweeping beach with calm water. And Asta Tinggi
Royal Cemetery, to appreciate Madurese culture, a visit to the palace Jamiq
Mosque and the Asta Tinggi Royal Cemetry is well worthwile, as they have
excellent exhibitions of mixed culture between Javanese, Chinese, Islam and
western style art and traditions are displayed from the early colonial period
of the city’s development.
Probolinggo
Probolinggo has Madakaripura Waterfall. It’s
6 km away from the village of Sukapura is another object worth cisiting, as it
is supposed to be the place where Gajah Mada ; the Prime Minister of the once
Kingdom of Majapahit meditated. Giliketapang Island, the north of Probolinggo
is a small island, which is interesting to visit. Just 7 km to the harbor where
we should take a motorboat to the island.
Jember & Watu Ulo Beach
Point of interests in Jember, are as Watu Ulo
Beach. By God’s will theybecome stone’s and visitor could still observe the
“Snake Stone” about 33 km South from Jember. A walk along the white sands of
Pampuma Beach is a pleasant activity. It has calm waves and is suitable for jet
skiing, parasailing, fishing and sunbathing. Cerutu Tour, since Dutch
occupation, Jember was well known with tobacco, cigar’s materials. Now the
tobacco industry has developed an interesting and nostalgic agrotour, besides
other plantation tours of Jember, visitors could enjoy a tobacco walk and
handmade cigarprocessing. Gunung Gambir Tea Tour, 1,100 m above sea level is
the tea plantation of Gunung Gambir of Sumberbaru. Visitors could do tea walk
and some tasting and witness the processing of what’s known as Bir Tea.
Jember
Fashion Carnival
The World's Longest Catwalk
is Jember Fashion Carnival (JFC) in
Jember Regency, East Java Province. Exactly in 2003,
the first JFC began to show the city of Jember to the world’s
fashion spotlight. After a decade of persistent efforts, with a full financial
support from the local sponsors, organization and the community, the carnival
has come to a level of global attention and vivid excitement. Previously, the
longest outdoor catwalk was only a mile long in Copenhagen. Recently hailed as
the world’s longest catwalk set up on a staggering 3.6-kilometer street at the
city’s central park, JFC attracted some 500 registered
photographers and hundreds of unregistered ones from around the nation and
overseas. Around 600 participants, mostly students from around the city, were
strikingly put into marvelous costumes. Instantly, this third largest city in
East Java became exceedingly Lively, bringing joyous moments to the entire
residents and local businesses.
With ten different costume themes from the past nine bests and
butterflies theme in this particular carnival, in addition to the creativity of
the people, the runway was amazing. Spectators did not mind the scorching sun
as the event was commenced in the afternoon. The carefully planned spectators’
fences on the road sides finally failed preventing the curious residents and
amateur photographers from getting so close to the models. This highly spirited
moment with extraordinary enthusiasm is predicted to be another thriving
success.
Tretes
We
could visit to Tretes, one of the most beautiful in East Java, just 54
kilometers Southeast of Surabaya, in the
foothills of Welirang, the “Sulphur Mountain”. It’s has waterfalls, hot
springs, breathtaking, scenery and clean, cool air lure visitors from
throughout Java and a regular flock of weekenders escaping the busttle of
Surabaya. Spas, bathing pools and resort hotels line the sleep, wooded
hillsides, along with traditional houses and ellegant villas dating from the
colonial era whwn Dutch residents of Surabaya established Tretes as their
mountain retreat.
Trekking
and horsriding are among the many attractions of Tretes and for history
enthusiasts there are almost one hundred temple sites in the area. Tretes is
pleasant holiday resort, lower at the foot of the volcano is the village of
Pandaan, with a 20.000 seat open air theater for the staging of dance drama.
Pandaan has it’s own asortment of bungalows, hotels, restaurants and meeting
facilities. Classical Ramayana ballet performances are held during the full
moon in the huge Candra Wilwatika open air theatre on the slopes of the sacred
Mount Penanggungan.
Baluran
National Park
East Java’s best known and most often visited
nature reserve is the Baluran National Par. Near the town of Situbondo on the
north coast. It is a dry land of open forests and shrubs, which make way for
mangrove lines marshlands along the coast. Wild oxen, wild buffalo, dear
peacocks, wild fowl are among the animals which inhabit, this land.The Meru
Betiri nature and wildlife reserve, on Java’s southeastern tip, is home to the
las of the surviving Javan Tigers, Panthera tigris sonnaica, still common about
a century ago, only four of five of them are now left.
Banyuwangi
Java’s
eastermost port on the Bali Strait is a popular crossing point for people
making the trip to Bali over land. The town itself is little different from
others in Java its size. Banyuwangi is interesting because of the blend of
Javanese and Balinese influences that colour it’s music and dance.
Accommodation
Outside
the city of Jakarta and the island of Bali, Surabaya has the largest number of
big hotels with modern facilities. Surabaya with a variety of restaurants,
nightclub, swimming pools, and also convention facilities. There are supperior
standard, all with TV sets, restaurants, and refrigerator as well as telephones
in the rooms, also air conditioning.
Transportation
Surabaya, the provincial capital, is
Indonesian second largest city and an importan center of commerce and industry.
Accordingly, it is well served by all sorts of means of air, land and sea
transport as well as telecommunications with the rest of the island and the
country.For flights coming from and going to Jakarta are consisted of
aircrafts. Train and intercity buses run services to places all over Java. Fro
trips insidethe city, there are the usual means of buses, minibuses, taxis,
pedicabs, and also ferries to the island of Madura across the strait.
Sumber Investigasi:
F.
I. Fatrick & www.guidingtoindonesia.blogspot.com
