Yogyakarta, The Culture City

Yogyakarta has several titles such as education city, gudeg city, culture city and tourist city. It is called culture city because this city is the center of culture. This place is the special teritory province located in Java island, Indonesia. It is about 500 kilometers from Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. Yogyakarta used to be a kingdom called Yogyakarta Hadiningrat. The leader is called Sultan. Now Yogyakarta is one of provinces of Indonesia. Although its part of Indonesia, we still can find keraton (sultan palace. This Keraton is popular not only for Indonesian people but also foreigners from other countries. The kinds of high culture from Yogyakarta are Gamelan, the javanese music instrument, Wayang Kulit The puppit show performnce, Ketoprak, the stage show (popular opera), and so on.