Sonobudoyo Museum: KERIS NUSANTARA COLLECTIONS

Sonobudoyo Museum, enjoy KERIS NUSANTARA COLLECTIONS 

Visiting the Museum Sonobudoyo is an alternative if you want to see the diverse collection of keris from across the country and things associated with it. Museum store around 1200's collection of keris (mostly Java donations Institute) will cure your disappointment, because the store Kraton kris-kris heritage until now do not allow visitors to enjoy its collections. 

Sonobudoyo Museum can be reached easily from the Sultan's Palace, located across North Alun Alun Yogyakarta. To enter, you only need to pay a ticket for USD 3000.00. Meanwhile, to see the diverse collection of keris, the procedure is quite difficult because it must request permission from the head of the museum. That's because a large collection of kris still stored in collections space, not shown to the public. 

The first thing that will be found associated with the dagger is Wesi Buddhist, is the raw material used in making kris around the year 700 AD, or at the time of the triumph of the Hindu kingdom of Mataram. Wesi du Buddha can be seen in the middle of the room that holds a number of collections from the triumph of Buddhist civilization in Indonesia. Together Wesi Buddhist, also stored a variety of household utensils, weapons and crafts from the same period.

Go deeper into, you can see some dagger collection, though relatively limited in number. Some keris is a dagger placed upright, keris luk (simply a bulge in the right side and left-dagger) 7, 11 and kris keris luk luk 13. Generally, a dagger that is stored at room public exhibition can be seen this is kris from Java. Joint collection of keris, batik cloth is also stored with a variety of motives. 

Kris a more complete collection can be found in the collection room, library room behind the museum. According to museum officials in YogYES, space saving diverse collection of keris from various parts of the archipelago, a collection of accessories such as pendok from Yogyakarta and Solo and keris. More collections are from outside Yogyakarta, because supposedly there is a ban on collecting kris Kraton Yogyakarta exceed collections. 

Kris-kris Java stored in the form of keris luk 7, 11, 13 and straight kris with a beranekja prestige variety, such as rice wutah (prestige that comes from forging unintentional, such as the navel that connects), sekar fern (fern flower-shaped), etc. . Kris-kris from outside Java, which is stored among other typical rencong Aceh, the saber from Kalimantan, kris-kris Madura and Bali, and the dagger from Sulawesi. 

In the room that collection, you can also see a variety of old keris designed attractive. There keris handles shaped human head, human being, dragon, lion and so forth. There is also some pendok a hundred, divided into two styles of Yogyakarta and Solo. Nothing like a keris which has various designs, pendok kris has a relatively uniform shape.

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Jogjakarta Landmark

Tugu Jogja is a landmark city of Yogyakarta is the most famous. This monument is located right in the middle of the intersection of Prince Street Mangkubumi, General Sudirman Street, Road and Jalan Diponegoro AM Sangaji. Tugu Jogja almost 3 centuries-old has a deep meaning as well save some recording history of the city of Yogyakarta. 

Tugu Jogja established approximately a year after the sultan's palace stood. At its inception, the building was expressly described Manunggaling Gusti subjects, the spirit of unity of the people and rulers to fight the occupation. Or so-called spirit of unity that gilig golong imprinted on building the monument, shaped poles gilig (cylinder) and the peak shape golong (round), so-called Tugu Golong gilig. 

In detail, the building was built at the beginning of Tugu Jogja cylindrical conical-shaped pile up.Essentially part of a circular fence while the top round. Height of building the monument was originally reached 25 meters. 

Everything changed on June 10, 1867. Earthquake that rocked Yogyakarta when it makes the building collapsed pillar. That said, when the monument is a transition state collapses, before the meaning of unity did not really reflected in the monument building. 

The situation has really changed in 1889, when the Dutch government to renovate the building the monument. The monument is made with a square shape with each side decorated with a kind of inscription that shows anyone who is involved in the renovation. The top of the monument is no longer round, but a pointy cone-shaped. Height of the building also be lower, just as tall as 15 meters or 10 meters lower than the original building. Since then, this monument is also known as De Witt White Pal Paal or monument. 

Overhaul of the building was actually a tactic to erode the unity between the Dutch people and the king. However, seeing the struggle of the people and the king of Yogyakarta, which took place afterwards, can be found that these efforts are not successful. 

If you want to look at Tugu Jogja much as you like while remembering his philosophical meaning, is a bench overlooking the monument at the corner of Jl. Prince Mangkubumi. At 05:00 to 06:00 the morning is the right moment, when the air was fresh and not many people in motor vehicle traffic. Occasionally you may be greeted with a friendly smile that delivering newspapers daily circulation going to the office of People's Sovereignty. 

Afternoon until midnight, there were sellers warm (Yogyakarta typical cuisine) at the corner of Jl.Diponegoro. Famous for delicious warm here and the price is fair. You can eat while enjoying the scenery lesehan towards Tugu Jogja was bathed in light.

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Wonosari: The Panoramic of Jogjakarta

This is one area in Yogyakarta, located in the eastern region yogyakarta. Gunung Kidul district name his or her more popular with Wonosari. Daearh has a huge natural potential, ranging from agricultural products, food, and tourism. For tourists who want to visit this place can be a distance of about 80 km to the east. And also can use public transport both buses and cars

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