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Lombok hotels
Lombok hotels
ranging from luxurious five star to simple
backpacker home stay. Most of the hotels and
resort are
located in Senggigi. The star rate hotels
and boutique resort are nestled in lush
tropical gardens, directly located on the
beach with the tranquil surroundings and a
minutes away from airport or seaport. |
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Let's Go To
Mt. Rinjani
Trekking to the Second Highest Peak in
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Yogyakarta Indonesia
Jogjakarta
Tourism Board Courtesy
Located within the
Yogyakarta province, Yogyakarta city is known as a
center of classical Javanese fine art and culture such
as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry and puppet shows.
It is also famous as a center for Indonesian higher
education. At Yogyakarta's center is the kraton, or
Sultan's palace.
 While the city sprawls in all
directions from the kraton, the core of the modern city
is to the north.
Special Region of Yogyakarta (Indonesian: Daerah
Istimewa Yogyakarta, or DIY), is the smallest province
of Indonesia (excluding Jakarta). It is located on the
island of Java. It is the only province in Indonesia
that is still formally governed by a pre-colonial
Sultanate, the Sultanate of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat.
Geography
Yogyakarta is located in south-central Java. It is
surrounded by the province of Central Java (Jawa Tengah)
and the Indian Ocean in the south. The city is located
at [show location on an interactive map] 7°47′S,
110°22′E.
The population of DIY in 2003 was approximately
3,000,000. The province of Yogyakarta has a total area
of 3,185.80 km˛. Yogyakarta has the second-smallest area
of the provinces in Indonesia, after the Jakarta Capital
Region. However it has, along with adjacent areas in
Central Java, some of the highest population densities
of Java.
History
The Yogyakarta Sultanate, formally the
Sultanate of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, was
formed in 1755 when the existing Sultanate
of Mataram was divided by the Dutch East
India Company (VOC) in two under the Treaty
of Giyanti. This treaty states that the
Sultanate of Mataram was to be divided into
the Sultanate of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat
with Yogyakarta as the capital and
Mangkubumi who became Sultan Hamengkubuwono
I as its Sultan and the Sultanate of
Surakarta Hadiningrat with Surakarta as the
capital and Pakubuwono III who was the ruler
of the Sultanate of Mataram as its Sultan.
The Sultan Hamengkubuwono I spent the next
37 years building the new capital, with the
Kraton as the centerpiece and the court at
Surakarta as the blueprint model. By the
time he died in 1792, his territory exceeded
Surakarta's.
The ruler Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX
(April 12, 1912 - 1988) held a degree from
the Dutch Lei den University, and held for a
time the largely ceremonial position of
Vice-President of Indonesia, in recognition
of his status, as well as Minister of
Finance and Minister of Defense.
In
support of Indonesia declaring independence from
the Dutch and Japanese occupation, in September 5,
1945, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX of Yogya and
Sri Paku Alam VIII in Yogya declared their
sultanates to be part of the Republic of
Indonesia. In return for this unfailing support, a
law was passed in 1950, in which Yogyakarta was
granted the status of province Daerah Istimewa
(Special Region Province), with special status
that recognizes the power of the Sultan in his own
region's domestic affairs. Hence Sultan
Hamengkubuwono IX was appointed as the governor
for life. During the Indonesian National
Revolution against the Dutch after World War II
(1945-1950), the capital of the newly-declared
Indonesian republic was temporarily moved to
Yogyakarta when the Dutch reoccupied Jakarta from
January 1946 until August 1950.
The current ruler of Yogyakarta is his son, Sri
Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, who holds a law degree
from Universitas Gadjah Mada. Upon the elder
sultan's death, the position of governor,
according to the agreement with Indonesia, was to
pass to his heir. However, the central government
at that time insisted on an election. In 1998,
Sultan Hamengkubuwono X was elected as governor by
the provincial house of representatives (DPRD) of
Yogyakarta, defying the will of the central
government. He remains the only governor in Java
without a military background: "I may be a
sultan," he has been quoted in Asia Week as
saying, "but is it not possible for me to also be
a democrat?
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