Saturday, January 28, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia
*BOROBUDUR
TEMPLE*
Borobudur is a ninth-century
Mahayana
Buddhist monument in
Magelang, Central
Java, Indonesia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Solo Batik Carnival in Indonesia
It’s Solo Batik Carnival in Indonesia, which is celebrated every year
in Solo is known as Solo Batik Carnival. It was first started in the
year 2008. Solo Batik Carnival is cooperation between the traditional
and modern fashion. Batik is a never-ending creativity and has a
background of a long history in Indonesia, the philosophy, design
motifs, creators and community supporters. Models present creations made
from traditional batik cloth.
Indonesia's tallest man, Suparwono falls short to be world's tallest
Indonesia's tallest man Suparwono, 24, walks with a relative at a shopping mall in Jakarta December 2, 2009. Museum Record Indonesia named Suparwono as the tallest man in Indonesia with a height of 2.42 metres (8 feet ) and a weight of 160 kg (353 pounds).
An
Indonesian laborer who hoped to be named the world's tallest man is
actually five centimeters (almost two inches) shorter than record-holder
Sultan Kosen of Turkey, an official said Wednesday.
Suparwono,
who like many Indonesians goes by just one name, was said to be 2.71
meters (8.89 feet) tall compared to Kosen's record height of 2.47
meters.
But
official measurements taken by Indonesia's Museum of Records found the
25-year-old Suparwono stood at 2.42 meters, enough to make him
Indonesia's tallest man but not enough to qualify for the Guinness World
Records.
"After our team from the Museum of Record measured him lying down and in the standing position we found that his height is 2.42 meters," museum director Ngadri told AFP.
"We
had reports this morning including the result of measurements from a
hospital which were 2.71 meters. But we have to stick to our
measurement," he said.
Suparwono shot to fame this week after one of his relatives in his home village of Tri Tunggal Jaya, in Sumatra island's southern Lampung province, invited neighbors to take pictures of him.
Within days he was appearing on television talk shows in Jakarta as the "Giant of Lampung."
Suparwono
said sometimes he felt "proud" of his height but "it also gives me
problems because I can't live like normal people", citing the difficulty
of fitting into public buses and finding clothes large enough for his
frame.
"I
started to realize my exceptional height when I was 10 years old. At
that time, I was already the tallest at my school and in my village," he
told AFP between television appearances.
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