Today is Wednesday. But for some Indonesians, it's not just any Wednesday — it's a "Pon Wednesday". Pon Wednesday exists in the Javanese calendar and has been picked three times by Indonesian ...

The Indonesian city is home to some of the greatest Hindu and Buddhist temples, a thriving food scene and an area known as the Cosmological Axis, a cradle of Javanese culture. Borobudur temple, ...

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According to legend, when a plague came to the city of Yogyakarta, the sultan ordered his citizens to cook sayur lodeh and stay home for 49 days. And the plague ended. According to legend, when the ...

DEMAK, Indonesia — The Java Sea has pursued Sunarti for years, first submerging her birthplace in Timbulsloko village, before forcing the mother of two to flee inland on the northern coast of Demak ...

Dedicated to preserving the essence of Javanese marriage customs, a “mak andam” (bridal make-up artist) from Indonesia embarked on a journey of over 1,500km from Ponorogo, East Java, to Johor to share ...

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