For users of mobile phones, coverage is excellent in most of the major tourist areas, however service is limited in more remote areas of Yogyakarta. We advise anyone traveling to Yogyakarta with their mobile phone to check with their network operators for their international roaming status prior to traveling. Read more…
Countries that do not require a Visa to enter Yogyakarta: Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Hongkong Special Administrative Region,Macao Special Administrative Region,Malaysia, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam Read more…
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Sail Bunaken 2009 which will involve 24 warships and 150 sail boats as well as cruise ships from 26 countries will be the largest maritime event ever organized in Asia. Read more…
The Department of Justice and Human Rights has officially determined that as of August 2005: Indonesia Government had granted visa on arrival favor to 52 countries to be able to purchase the visa on arrival facility upon their arrival in Indonesia’s designed “International Gateway” at 15 airports and 21 seaports. Read more…
Pekalongan (ANTARA News) - Indonesian batik is superior to similar products from Malaysia or China, and therefore the country`s batik producers should not worry about the competition, Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said. Read more…
In just two days after the Health Minister played down the potential of swine flu (H1N1) pandemic, the Office of the Coordinating Minister for Peoples Welfare announced that the danger of a pandemic is imminent as it reached phase five. Read more…
Denpasar (ANTARA News) - The number of Australian tourists visiting Bali in the first quarter of 2009 rose 24.85 percent to 71,970 from 57,647 in the same period last year. “The Australian tourists accounted for 14.67 percent of the total tourists coming to the Island of Paradise in the first quarter which reached 490.454,” Head of the Bali Office of the Central Statistics Board (BPS) Ida Komang Wisnu said here on Sunday. Read more…
Mount Merapi, at 2911 meters, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Selo village is the place Trekkers start climbing the mountain with incredible scenery! Only takes 4 hours to climb to the top of the mountain, and 3.5 hours for the fall. Read more…