Saturday, November 15, 2008

Major of culture and tradition in Indonesia

Based on geography Indonesia is big country and has a lot of varieties. Indonesia has 300 ethnics and all ethnics have different tradition and culture, examples languages in every provinces are different such as in north Sumatra they using Batak languages, in West Sumatra they using Minang language and Bali they using Bali languages.

Indonesia also has different traditional costumes such as in Java their traditional costumes is Batik, North Sumatra is Kain Ulos, Baju Bodo comes from southern Sulawesi, Baju Berkoteka comes from Papua and so on.

Indonesia has five religion and majority by Islam which is 88% based on 2000 census, 9% of Christian (Protestant and Catholic, 2% of Hindu and 1% of Buddhist.

Actually tradition and culture in Indonesia also influenced by foreign culture and tradition such as Candi Borobudur is Influenced by Hindu Temple, Dangdut is Indonesian Music which influenced by India and Melayu music, Baju Kebaya belief influenced from China clan who was visit Indonesia in 1600.

Indonesia is really beautiful because Indonesia has different- different culture and tradition, isn't it you think the same way?

References:

http://budaya-indonesia.org/iaci/Galeri_Pakaian_Tradisional, 16th November 2008
http://www.heritage.gov.my/kekkwa/upload/gambar_isi_web/sel015.jpg
http://www.padang.go.id/v2/images/zoom/tradisional/viewsize/PakaianAdatPengantenPadang.jpg
http://www.urban-crib.com/assets/images/Borobudur_01_H.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Indonesia, 16th November 2008
http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baju_kebaya, 16th November 2008
http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia, 16th November 2008