Hotel & Resort at Oar Island, Coming Soon

KOMPAS.com - Foreign tourists to Indonesia each year, growing five to six percent. In 2012 growth in the number of tourist arrivals reached six percent compared to the previous year.

Therefore, in the midst of hectic business hotels established in Indonesia, a new national hotel chain that Parador Hotels & Resorts still plans to bring a kind of resort hotels are more for pleasure needs.

"The overwhelming domestic traveler. This is supported by an increase in the upper middle class. This encourages people start traveling. That was just a vacation in Jakarta, began traveling to nowhere, "said Vice President of Parador Hotels & Resorts, Ricky Theodores to Kompas.com.

he said, the number of domestic travelers in the last three years, especially from areas like Tangerang, Jakarta, Bandung, booming. When he saw the trend, the Parador Hotels & Resorts to develop the resort hotel.

One is Paramount Island. As told Ricky, one empty island near Pulau Umang, Banten, has been acquired by Parador Hotels & Resorts.

"His name Oar Island, the island was empty. We made Paramount Island. The extent of a total of 4 acres and the whole island will become the resort, "said Ricky.

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Oar Island so close to Umang Island, just need only 5 minutes from Oar to Umang. In there, you can enjoy the beauty corals and fish.  There a lot of fun,. Waters for snorkeling located between Java and Oar. Besides, there's nothing wrong along the ocean with jet ski hire, or get wet with friends and family when you ride banana boat.

After a day of leisure activities, the afternoon is the best time to close the day. Umang island have white sand feast for the eyes, straight as an endless horizon. Western end side is the best place to see the sunset.

And then at night, the bridge trap fish in the sea full of point lights. Fascinating and beautiful. The fishermen doing their routines at the platform, where the fish congregate under artificial light.

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Polaroid iM1836, Snap, Connect and Easy Share

Documenting activities and interesting things during the trip is a must, then this should be supported by the top technology.

There are many options that you can take a camera, but Polaroid iM1836 provide an interesting experience. Its small, gives you the chance to do candid, street photographers used to do, and very useful when you are documenting the rituals and ceremonies that usually prohibit the use of flash from DLSR Camera, because DLSR too big, and striking.

Polaroid looks to add to the budding market segment that offers mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras with Wi-Fi connectivity through the release of the iM1836 Camera. Complete with a 10-30mm lens kit, additional hardware features include an 18.1MP sensor capable of 1080p video, a pop-up flash, Bluetooth, and a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen LCD display. 

That’s still not it however, as the iM1836 will ship with a software package that consists of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which is expected to assist users in sharing photos via social networks, as well as edit them on the fly through the multitude of apps in the Android marketplace.

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Tenun Lurik Batik Banyumas

The loom of wood continues to move, twist yarn into cloth one striated. Striated woven fabric used for batik painting is a form of batik Banyumas effort to save from extinction. "If you are not creative and to innovate, Banyumas batik could become extinct," said Hadi Slamet Priyanto, homeowners batik Banyumas, in Banyumas district, on Sunday, February 10, 2013.

He is now one of 10 businessmen batik remaining in the center of the former capital of batik Banyumas it. In the old city of Banyumas, he collects an average of batik is batik elders to return. Not only batik, stamp and print, since 2008 she began to make batik cloth made of woven base striated. Looms he got from a silk weaving factory was bankrupt in that area.

Batik business families have been built since 1957 by his grandfather, Kwee Lie Go. He himself is the third generation to continue the effort. At that time, in fact many entrepreneurs Banyumas batik Banyumas batik making. One of the famous Batik R or Rosidi once based in Villa Krandji. Villa oldest in Banyumas has now been razed to the ground because it will be built Supermal.

Batik Banyumas, he said, hard to develop because of the lack of interest young batik. The young generation today, he said, preferring to work in the formal sector and are reluctant to learn batik from her parents. Batik Banyumas, he said, more marketable in Central Java to West Java. "The difficulty receiving Yogyakarta and Solo batik Banyumas, because different grip," he said.

Within a day, he said, the house is able to produce 60 pieces of batik cloth batik. The batik is mostly agricultural laborers. When the planting and harvest seasons, the batik production almost since the batik go into the fields. Currently, it employs about 20 batik. In addition, there are dozens who do batik batik in her home with a contract system. He sold batik at the booth located in front of his house. The price of Rp 100 thousand to Rp 3 million, depending on the complexity of batik.

Hadi said he also employs five special batik fine. This type of batik can be done within a period of one year. "Batik is very complicated subtle. The thickness of the wax, scratch lines, and patterns are very complicated. Not everyone can do it, "he said.

In addition to fabric, fabric defects Hadi deal with making a variety of crafts such as batik clothes, blankon, bags, trinkets and batik. As an entrepreneur, he also experienced adversity. When the economic crisis of 1997, he even go out of business because their batik none behavior.

Currently, its turnover could reach Rp 50 million per day. "Batik cloth of woven striated would I developed in order to continue to innovate," he said. He is concerned with the decline of batik business today. Of about 165 entrepreneurs batik in about the 1970s, then remained about 10 businessmen who still survive.

For him, batik Banyumas batik has its own characteristic pattern that is characteristic of inland batik, which inspired many plant and animal motifs. In accordance with their environment, such as forests and mountains. The process of coloring too much use of dark colors or dark the image is straightforward and resolute, like the Banyumas culture is.

source: Tempo.co

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