Sekaten in Yogya

once a year to commemorate the birth of Nabi Muhammad SAW,in Yogyakarta there is even called SEKATEN.his night market became part of the party yogyakarta citizens, like the other night market which we can find a variety of Islamic cultural entertainment and of course we can shop a variety of needs

situation Pasar Sekaten

The other story of Prambanan temple

Prambanan temple also we called Loro Djonggrang temple.this is one of legend about how to made this temple.
Loro djonggrang was the daughter of a giant king called king Baka.she very beautiful,she had a proposal from a young.noble,Bandung Bandawasa,he was handsome.wealhty,and powerful,but Loro Djonggrang didn’t want to marry him.Loro Djonggrang gave a task to Bandung Bandawasa.he had to make 1.000 temples in one night,to prepare his marriage to Loro Djonggrang.
Bandung Bandawasa used supranatural power to call the genies,and they made the temples with unbelieveable speed.Loro Djonggrang saw that the task was almost complete.then she ordered her servant to help her hit rice using the rice puncher,and made the sound of cooking.these actions would make the genies think that morning had come.they would tun away.Bandung Bandawasa was angry with Loro Djonggrang.he already finished 999 temples,and when he built the 1.000th.he cursed Loro Djonggrang into stone statue to fill in the 1.000 temple.

History of Yogyakarta

the southgate of kraton

History
The Yogyakarta Sultanate, formally the Sultanate of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, was formed in 1755 when the existing Sultanate of Mataram was divided by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in two under the Treaty of Giyanti. This treaty states that the Sultanate of Mataram was to be divided into the Sultanate of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat with Yogyakarta as the capital and Mangkubumi who became Sultan Hamengkubuwono I as its Sultan and the Sultanate of Surakarta Hadiningrat with Surakarta as the capital and Pakubuwono III who was the ruler of the Sultanate of Mataram as its Sultan. The Sultan Hamengkubuwono I spent the next 37 years building the new capital, with the Kraton as the centerpiece and the court at Surakarta as the blueprint model. By the time he died in 1792, his territory exceeded Surakarta’s.
The ruler Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX (April 12, 1912 – 1988) held a degree from the Dutch Leiden University, and held for a time the largely ceremonial position of Vice-President of Indonesia, in recognition of his status, as well as Minister of Finance and Minister of Defense.
In support of Indonesia declaring independence from the Dutch and Japanese occupation, in September 5, 1945, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX of Yogya and Sri Paku Alam VIII in Yogya declared their sultanates to be part of the Republic of Indonesia. In return for this support, a law was passed in 1950 in which Yogyakarta was granted the status of province Daerah Istimewa (Special Region Province), with special status that recognizes the power of the Sultan in his own region’s domestic affairs.
By this act, Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX was appointed as governor for life. During the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch after World War II (1945-1950), the capital of the newly-declared Indonesian republic was temporarily moved to Yogyakarta when the Dutch reoccupied Jakarta from January 1946 until August 1950.
The current ruler of Yogyakarta is his son, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, who holds a law degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada. Upon the elder sultan’s death, the position of governor, according to the agreement with Indonesia, was to pass to his heir. However, the central government at that time insisted on an election. In 1998, Sultan Hamengkubuwono X was elected as governor by the provincial house of representatives (DPRD) of Yogyakarta, defying the will of the central government. “I may be a sultan,” he has been quoted in Asia Week as saying, “but is it not possible for me to also be a democrat?”