Word: yogyakarta
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...Beale visited Java and fell in love with a ship. To be precise, it was a picture of a ship, a sculptural relief of a jaunty schooner, its bow thrust upward by a swell, carved some 1,200 years ago at Borobudur, the magnificent Buddhist monument not far from Yogyakarta. Roaming across the Indonesian islands on a grant to study traditional ships, Beale had read that sailors from the Malay Archipelago regularly crossed the Indian Ocean, and even established colonies in East Africa, centuries before Borobudur was built. As he gazed at the sculpture, a great idea possessed him: this...
...Warwick Purser, a tall, lanky, ginger-color man from Sydney, has made the dream a reality. Seven years ago, when the peripatetic entrepreneur established Out of Asia, Indonesia's largest exporter of handcrafted goods, he set up shop in the village of Tembi, half an hour's drive from Yogyakarta. Today, Purser rules as the beneficent panjandrum of a small yet stately demesne there, employing hundreds of villagers and subcontracting to thousands more throughout Java, Bali and Lombok...
...pleasant pavilion in the center of town to construct nested rattan boxes for Marshall Field's, the Chicago-based department store chain. As Purser wanders through a clean-swept clearing sheltered by what he calls a "hugely important" banyan tree, where a member of the royal house of Yogyakarta is buried, residents make way for him with discreet Javanese gestures of respect. "When someone gets married, I'm there. When someone dies, I'm there. It's like a huge family...
...beyond, however, the exported and willfully internalized American dream has been punctured by months of failed and feckless diplomacy, by the Bush Administration's disregard for international opinion and now by sandstorms, alleged errant missiles and the fact that war is rarely quick and never clean. Last month in Yogyakarta, Indonesia's intellectual center, numerous students told me that yes, they would like to work in the U.S.?because there were no jobs at home, not because they admired America. Religious and community leaders expressed anger toward the Bush Administration?not, they stressed, at the American people?as well...
...country obsessed with thy neighbor's morality, Inul's dancing was deemed pornographic. In early February, the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI), concerned that Inul's performances encouraged lustful acts, declared that her dancing and costume were circumscribed by its July 2002 fatwa against pornography. Authorities in devout Yogyakarta banned Inul from performing, fearing that she would "degrade the morality of the highly civilized and educated residents" of the city. Tabloids had a field day when Taufik Kiemas, President Megawati Sukarnoputri's husband, was photographed shaking his considerable booty behind Inul after a TV performance. Even the television stations profiting from...