The Royal Palace of Yogyakarta Indonesia

The Royal Palace of Yogyakarta is a palace complex in the city of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. It is the seat of the reigning Sultan of Yogyakarta and his family. The complex is a center of Javanese culture and contains a museum displaying royal artifacts. It is guarded by the Yogyakarta Kraton Guards.

The complex was built in 1755–1756 (AJ 1682) for Hamengkubuwono I, the first Sultan of Yogyakarta. It was one of the monarch's first acts after the signing of the Treaty of Giyanti, which recognized the creation of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta under the Dutch East India Company. A banyan forest, protected from flooding due to its location between two rivers, was chosen as the site for the palace.

On 20 June 1812, Sir Stamford Raffles led a 1,200-strong British and Irish force to attack the walled royal city of Yogyakarta. Although they outnumbered the British, the Javanese were unprepared for the attack. Yogyakarta fell in one day, and the palace was sacked and burnt. The attack was the first of its kind on a Javanese court, and the Sultanate briefly became subject to British authority before the British government returned control of Indonesia to the Dutch. Most of the current palace was built by Sultan Hamengkubuwono VIII (who reigned from 1921 to 1939) and was rebuilt after earthquakes in 1876 and 2006.

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The Gedung Agung, Yogyakarta

The Gedung Agung is one of seven presidential palaces of Indonesia, it is located in the city of Yogyakarta. The palace complex covers an area of approximately 4.4 hectares. It is located in front of Fort Vredeburg

It was initially built in 1824 on an estate owned by the 18th Dutch resident of Yogyakarta, Anthonie Hendriks Smissaert. The first building was designed by an architect named A. Payen, with typical Indies tropical architecture design. The construction of the building was delayed by the ongoing Java War, a rebellion led by Prince Diponegoro and was only completed in 1832.

An earthquake shook and toppled the first palace on 10 June 1867 and the building was initially rebuilt in 1869. The status of Yogyakarta was changed from Resident to a province on 19 December 1927, thus the building changed its purpose as the governor's office.

During the struggle for Independence, the capital city of Jakarta was occupied by Allied forces and the government was moved to Yogyakarta on 6 January 1946. The palace became the residence of president Sukarno between 1946 and 1949, until the government was moved back to Jakarta on 28 December 1949.

After Suharto's became the 2nd president of Indonesia, the palace was made a venue for afternoon parade on every 17 August to commemorate Indonesia's independence. Later in 1991 the building is used to celebrate every moment of seconds of the declaration of the independence.

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The General Offensive of 1 March 1949

The General Offensive of 1 March 1949 was a military offensive during the Indonesian National Revolution where the city of Yogyakarta was held by Indonesian troops for six hours. This played an important role in causing international pressure to be exerted on the Netherlands.

Frustrated at negotiations with the republic and believing it weakened by both the Darul Islam and Madiun insurgencies, the Dutch launched a military offensive on 19 December 1948 which it termed Operation Crow. By the following day it had conquered the city of Surakarta and Yogyakarta, the location of the temporary republican capital. By the end of December, all major republican held cities in Java and Sumatra were in Dutch hands. The republican president, vice-president

, and all but six Republic of Indonesia ministers were captured by Dutch troops and exiled to Bangka Island off the east coast of Sumatra. In areas surrounding Yogyakarta and Surakarta, republican forces refused to surrender and continued to wage a guerrilla war under the leadership of republican military chief of staff General Sudirman who had escaped the Dutch offensives. An emergency republican government, the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (PDRI), was established in West Sumatra.

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Ketandan, the Chinatown areas in Yogyakarta Indonesia

Indonesia has many diversity including acculturation of culture. Contact from the meeting of two different cultures into one adds to the cultural richness in Indonesia. One of them is Chinese culture that has long existed in Indonesia. In Yogyakarta, the Chinatown area entered since the 1860s, where Ketandan village was the center of Chinese settlements in the Dutch era. Ketandan, located east of the Malioboro area, is one of the Chinatown areas in Yogyakarta that has a strong identity and history. Based on observations, the author see that the Ketandan village area in Yogyakarta is only crowded if there are certain events, so that on weekdays it seems quiet especially in the village corridors. Over time, some of the inhabitants of the village changed the facade of the original building that led to the modern style and the lack of attributes and other Chinese components in Ketandan. This can trigger the fading character of the Chinatown in Ketandan. 

(Source : Wikipedia, Foto : Sabudi and   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gapura_Kampoeng_Ketandan.jpg# /media/Berkas:Gapura_Kampoeng_Ketandan.jpg 

Amal Beach Tarakan Indonesia

Amal becomes the most famous beach in Tarakan City. The beach is located in Tarakan City, North Kalimantan Province, Indonesia which is a favourite amusement in Tarakan. Amal is one of the villages in East Tarakan District. 

Tough the beach doesnt have white sand it is often visited for its particular beauty of brown sand, blue sky and waiving coconut trees. You need to see it, then the beauty of this beach becomes clear.

Right now, the Tarakan City Government continues to expand the beach and adding facilities to support the coast, mainly because the planning to make Amal Beach became the best destination tourist in Tarakan city in the name as Ratu Intan Beach.

(Source : Foto : Sabudi Prasetyo and inditourist)