Indonesia 41 posts
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Celebrating Chinese New Year in Indonesia
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May 15, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article written by: Edwin Solahuddin ASEAN-Korea blog correspondent, Indonesia Like any other country that has sizable Chinese population, the Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is also celebrated in Indonesia. People of Chinese decent are not the only ones who celebrate this festival, nearly all the Indonesian people warmly welcome the event. During the New Order regime from 1966 to 1998, the ...
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Top Five Most Popular Traditional Children’s Games in Indonesia
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May 8, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article written by: Edwin SOLAHUDDIN ASEAN-Korea blog correspondent, Indonesia Like any other children in any other parts of the world, Indonesian children love to play games. As an archipelagic country inhabited by hundreds of different ethnic groups, Indonesia is rich in traditional children’s games. The traditional children’s games in Indonesia are varied, and unlike their more “...
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Korean Wave Rocks Indonesia
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March 30, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article by Edwin SOLAHUDDIN (Indonesia) Blog Correspondent of ASEAN-Korea Centre South Korean Flag Forget Bollywood, Paris, or even Hollywood. Now it’s Korean time! When it first entered the entertainment world in Indonesia back in early 2000′s, no one would have thought that the Korean pop culture “invasion” known as “Korean Wave” or Hallyu would one day become so extremely popular...
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Beast Performs Its First Concert in Indonesia
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March 30, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article by Edwin SOLAHUDDIN (Indonesia) Blog Correspondent of ASEAN-Korea Centre Beast’s Performance During One of Their Tour Stop Korean pop band BEAST performed its first concert in Indonesia at Jitec Mangga Dua Square, Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday, March 17, 2012 as part of its “Beautiful Show 2012” tour. The concert was began on 8 p.m. after the audience yelled “We Want Beast” a co...
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Koreans in Indonesia: Sharing a Way of Life
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March 13, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article by Veronika Kusuma Wijayanti (Indonesia) Blog Correspondent of ASEAN-Korea Centre Cha Kang Wong, a South Korean employee, got to know Jakarta for the first time in the middle of the 2009s. Cha, a friend of mine in Korea has been living in Indonesia until now and this month I took him to see Jakarta for several times since our first Indonesia meet up in May 2010. He likes the city very m...
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Copying K-Pop or Evolution to Creativity
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March 13, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article by Veronika Kusuma Wijayanti (Indonesia) Blog Correspondent of ASEAN-Korea Centre South Korean popular culture has taken off across Southeast Asia in recent years and Indonesia is no exception. Perhaps the most defining feature of the so-called Korean Wave is pop music, or K-pop, with its spunky lead singers, sickly sweet lyrics and over-the-top fashion enough to make any Indonesian tee...
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Dragon Year Across Indonesia
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March 8, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article by Veronika Kusuma Wijayanti (Indonesia) Blog Correspondent of ASEAN-Korea Centre In the sprawling capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta, many major shopping malls have already brought “Imlek”, locally named for Chinese New Year celebration atmosphere to buildings, dominated by the color of red with all required accessories, bazaars, art performances, and other activities also highlight th...
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Reog: Dancing With Your Teeth
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February 8, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article by Veronika Kusuma (Indonesia) Blog Correspondent of ASEAN-Korea Centre Reog is an Indonesian traditional mask dance where the dancers carry a very heavy, ornamented tiger head with peacock feathers in wide winged. This dance depicts a fight between a tiger and two noblemen on horseback. These masks are almost 50 kg heavy, worn by one man (called warok) by biting the wood inside the mas...
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Dangdut: Let Its Rhythm Shake and Flow
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January 31, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article by Veronika Kusuma (Indonesia) Blog Correspondent of ASEAN-Korea Centre Dangdut is a genre of Indonesian popular music that originated in the 1960s. The vibrant and constantly evolving musical form that draws on Arabic, Malay, Indian and rock influences exploded in the 1970s. These influences exploded with acts such as Rhoma Irama and Elvy Sukaesih. Rhoma added Western rock to the music...
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Sail Your Boat: The Old Phinisi Sails To Modernity
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January 16, 2012
ASEAN Correspondents > Indonesia
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Article by Veronika Kusuma Wijayanti (Indonesia) Blog Correspondent of ASEAN-Korea Centre A man loads in some goods to be delivered by Phinisi boat Phinisi boats, a masterpiece of traditional Bugis-Makassar design are exceptionally strong, and are famous for their ability to break through high waves and sail vast distances. The wooden boats have sailed the Pacific to Japan and Vancouver as well...
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