PALANG PINTU KEMANG FESTIVAL

Palang Pintu Kemang Festival is annual event which is always celebrated once a year. This festival is one of event to celebrate Jakarta anniversary. The event usually placed on Jalan Kemang, South Jakarta, so it's called Palang Pintu Kemang. This event is not far from home, where I live, so this is one of my favorite festival that must be visited each year. You also can join in the festival, it's held around of Mei and June, the entry is FREE, It's open for public, so anyone can enjoy the festival.

As capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta  always has big event to celebrate its anniversary day. Usually many event will perform Jakarta's local culture. It well known as Betawi culture, starts from food, dance, traditional clothes, Betawi marriage ceremony and many more. In Palang Pintu Kemang Festival, you can enjoy and see all Betawi culture.

Ondel - ondel traditional big doll in Betawi 

Little dancer, ready to perform traditional dance

Pretty headpiece 

Betawi Traditional Wedding Clothes

Kerak Telor Traditional Food of Betawi

There were also many stalls

Jaipong Dance

Everyone was enjoying the festival

Hope you like it and see you on the next Palang Pintu Kemang Festival :)

Cheers,

Jihan

VISIT NATIONAL GALLERY MUSEUM FOR FREE

Hi friends ??? Any plan for weekend ???

If you are too lazy to spend your weekend traveling out of city, maybe this can be your option. Spending your weekend in city is not that boring. There are a lot of fun places to be visited. One of my favorite place for weekend is to visit museum. In Jakarta, we have so many museums that worth it to be visited. One of them is National Gallery, the museum is one of art museum in Jakarta that provide art exhibition.

                       
The art that is exhibited in the museum such as ; painting, contemporary art, carving, mural etc. This museum is opened for public and free. It's located in front of Gambir Station in Central Jakarta. Sometimes it has different theme of art exhibition, but they have permanent collection that always be there whatever the season. When I visited the museum, they held Art Clay exhibition.

This colorful ceramics will start playing melody 

when you pushed the botton. It was so unique.

Absurd creatures with its skateboard.

This all buttons was made from clay.

The shelf and all bottles, remind me when I was in laboratory..haha

All bottles contained specimens from many type  of clay, some of it is edible.

I tried one that looks like a bread, actually they already cooked it as bread.

The taste was not bad, It was like I'm eating sand.

Permanent Exhibition of National Gallery of Indonesia was opened since 7 October 2015 until now. The exhibition displays 109 permanent collection that becomes state collection. 

Most of it is the work of famous maestros and artists, such as Raden Saleh, Wakidi, S. Sudjono, Affandi, Basoeki Abdullah, Hendra Gunawan, Otto Djaja, Popo Iskandar, Srihadi Soedarsono, Widayat, Djoko Pekik, Eddie Hara, Heri Dono, Jim Supangkat, Dede Eri Supria, Tisna Sanjaya, Krisna Murti, Anusapati, Mella Jaarsma, dan karya perupa internasional antara lain Victor Vasarely, Wassily Kandinsky, Hans Arp, Zao Wou-Ki, Hans Hartung, dan Sonia Delaunay. The arts that display are Indonesia modern art, international, the New Art movement, Indonesian Contemporary Art.

Need precision and art to make this oblique statue.

How to get there :

- Commuter line ---> stop at Gondangdia station, then walk or use ojek, to get 

  National Gallery   Museum.

- Busway, stop at Gambir shelter, the museum is across the shelter. 

What's on Museum ? 
Fixed Exhibition :
Tuesday - Sunday at 09.00 until 16.00 WIB (Monday and National holiday closed)
Entry Ticket : Free

Temporary Exhibition:
Everyday at 10.00 until 19.00 WIB (National holiday closed)
Entry Ticket : Free