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J+ Online: Millenials rush to Bali
This week, we’ve compiled four shortened versions of the articles published at Life channel on www
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span>This week, we’ve compiled four shortened versions of the articles published at Life channel on www.thejakartapost.com. If you are keen to read the full articles or want to look for more interesting lifestyle pieces, complete with photos and videos, pay a visit to the Life channel in our website. However, for quick access, download QR scanner application in your smartphone and scan the codes display next to the articles.
Millennials are moving to Bali
No longer seen as just a spot for a vacation getaway, Bali is fast becoming the hottest place for millennials to live.
Thriving with startups, with a relatively low cost of living, Bali is a prime location for millennials who are always on the look out for something different and exciting. The flourishing startup industry is supported by an abundance of co-working spaces and an environment that encourages creativity.
Businessman Andrew White who has lived in Bali for 10 years agrees. Previously an actor in several local television series, he, along with his wife and two children, chose to leave Jakarta to enjoy life.
“I want my children to be in nature; soaking up the sun, playing at the beach, enjoying space that is not a mall,” he said.
“I can go straight to the beach after I get home. I can take my children and spend two hours there. Imagine trying to get home in Jakarta; the two hours it would take to beat the traffic is what I could spend leisurely at the beach,” he added.
Nine Surakarta kampung ready to host tourists
At least nine kampung are currently being developed by the Surakarta administration in Central Java to be turned into new tourist destinations.
Among the concepts planned for the thematic kampung program are history, art, ecotourism, gems and batik. Meanwhile, the nine kampung involved are Kampung Mural Joho in Manahan, Kampung Sayur in Mojosongo, Kampung Batik Kauman, Kampung Batik Laweyan, Kampung Ekowisata in Bumi subdistrict, Kampung Blangkon in Serengan, Kampung Permata in Jayengan, Kampung Kepatihan and Kampung Kemlayan.
“We will kick off this urban tourism program with the Urban Kampung Tourism Festival in mid-March, where visitors will be able to explore the different kampung,” Surakarta Tourism Agency head Basuki Anggoro Hexa told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
Kampung Kemlayan, he added, is of particular historical significance as it once served as a home to gamelan (traditional Javanese orchestra) artisans during the era of King Surakarta Pakubuwono X. It was also known as a center of music and dance.
Will global changemakers ever come from Indonesia?
“An iPod, a phone and an internet communicator… Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device. And we are calling it iPhone,” said Steve Jobs confidently in his keynote iPhone presentation ten years ago. The journalists and analysts at the Macworld Expo instantly responded with cheers and claps.
The speech at the Macworld Expo was welcomed with skepticism by many tech company CEOs at that time. Despite the doubts, in just a few years two things were irrefutable: First, they had to bitterly agree that Steve had been right when saying in his presentation that the entrenched incumbents’ flagship devices were ‘ugly’ and ‘not so smart’. Second, in order to survive in the mobile phone market, there was no other way for them but to make radical changes to their products by getting rid of the physical keyboard and throwing away the stylus, replacing them with a new wide-screened device just like the iPhone.
Steve Jobs has changed the world as other innovators have, such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few. None of them is Indonesian. With its improved economy, more democratic politics, rich natural resources, population of 250 million, and demographic dividend (more people at productive ages), will Indonesia be able to produce world changemakers?
To answer the question, Indonesia first needs to deal with its internal problems.
ART|JOG to return to Yogyakarta in May
Yogyakarta’s annual art exhibition ART|JOG is set to return on May 4, and will run until June 4. The event will once again take place at the Jogja National Museum (JNM), which used to be the building of Indonesia’s Fine Arts Academy.
The theme this year is ‘Enlightenment: Towards Various Futures’, and will showcase the works of 40 invited local and international artists, including participants from the Philippines, Singapore and China, according to a statement issued to The Jakarta Post.
The statement further noted that enlightenment, for the event, is interpreted as a momentum that can free humans from the isolation of the cult and the triumph of rationality.
