For Indonesians, Ied (Idul Fitri, Lebaran) is definitely linked with mudik and ketupat. Ketupat is special food in Idul Fitri in Indonesia. Yes, it’s menu that have to ready in Idul Fitri. So a lot of people often assume that no ketupat in Idul Fitri like soup without salt. Tasteless. Ketupat is really a food constructed from rice covered by janur (young coconut leaf). Janur is created and filled by rice and cooked. 

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Idul Fitri, additionally referred to in Indonesia as Lebaran, may be the celebration that comes towards the end from the Muslim month of fasting, Ramadhan. The Arabic specification of Idul Fitri is “becoming holy again”. The dates with the ninth month on the Muslim calendar, Ramadan, changes from year to year, because the Muslim calendar (Hijrah) is based on a lunar cycle of 29 or thirty days. The date depends upon the sighting from the new moon. These lunar calculations produce the state run announcement from the government on the eve of Ramadan and Idul Fitri so your faithful know when you start and end the fasting month. In 2012, Ramadan is anticipated to start around July 20th and Lebaran will fall on 19-20 August, with "collective leave" on 21-22 August.

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Merti Dusun Krebet is a form of cultural ceremony which is held as a thankfulness to the Almighty God and begins with gunungan (daily foods arranged in mount shape). It is similar to the gunungan made by Keraton Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta palace) at Muludan commemoration at Alun-alun Utara (North square). 

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Making batik on a sheet of cloth is common, but by the craftmen in krebet, small village in pajangan district, bantul,batik is developed further using  wood as the media. Krebet Wood Painting Tourism Village is located at Sendangsari Village, Pajangan subdistrict, Bantul. 

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Jamu  is the term used for traditional herbal remedy in Indonesia, which prescriptions are handed down between the Jamu maker’s generations. It is made from natural ingredients, Healing herbs, roots, flowers, seeds, bark, etc.

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Not only in Bali we can find a beach with white sand and blue sea. In Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta province there are no less beautiful coast with the beaches in Bali. Indrayanti beach offers extraordinary beauty.  This beach is located about 30 km from Jogjakarta (can be reached during the 2 hours of Yogyakarta through road trip). This beach is alongside with Sundak beach as one of newest tourist object at Yogyakarta. The main point from this beach are white sand beach and clean environment. It is different with other beaches at Jogjakarta, like Parangtritis, Parangkusumo,etc.

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The Snake Fruit (Salacca zalacca, syn.  S. edulis, Calamus zalacca) tree is native to the Indonesian island of Java and Sumatra where it grows wild. It is given this name because its fruit has skin which looks scaly like a snake’s skin. It is a palm tree in the Arecaceae family and is related to the date palm. It is a very short-stemmed palm, with leaves up to 6 m long; each leaf has a 2 m long spiny petiole and numerous leaflets.However it has a shallow root system and although it loves humidity and rain, it is not tolerant of floods. Salak means tree bark, and the dark brown scaly skin of the snake fruit or salak is similar to the colour of bark.

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