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JAVANESE traditional music in Indonesia, named Gamelan , is now beginning to rarely favored the younger generation. However it's proved to be attractive to tourists or foreigners from European countries. Having schedule to travel to Kulonprogo Regency , about 18 students Dominicus College in Nijmegen, the Netherlands , visited Indonesia, especially Kulonprogo Regency. What do they do on those kinds of Travel Destination agenda? It's to know and practise Gamelan. It is on Thursday July 30, 2015, when the students being spent a week at Wild Rescue Center (WRC) Yogyakarta , take the time to visit the studio of Karawitan Lestari Budaya in Cumethuk RT 22 RW 11 Kedungsari Pengasih Kulonprogo. Not just to be a spectator, these students are even involved plays gamelan music. For some of them this is the first occasion. One of the students, Jimmy Banken , was deeply curious about the traditional gamelan music. Teens who used to play drums or percussion instruments have a different se

STATE -owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I and the Yogyakarta administration will build a new airport in Temon in Kulonprogo regency, a Transportation Ministry official says. “Based on our feasibility study, Kulonprogo is the most suitable location for the new airport. The provincial government is currently waiting for a permit from the Transportation Ministry to start the master plan,” spokesman Merpin Butarbutar said. The company had previously considered building the province’s second airport in Sanden in Bantul regency. Merpin said that PT Angkasa Pura I was working with India’s GVK Power and Infrastructure to complete the airport feasibility study and master plan. “We are going to build the new airport on a 700-hectare plot that will be able to accommodate 6 million passengers,” he said. bpmptKP/image PT Angkasa Pura I would need at least Rp 1.2 trillion (US$127.2 million) investment to build the new airport, which would start some time next year, he added. Yogyakarta