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Traveling to Magelang, Central Java is not only about Borobudur Temple. Not far from Borobudur Temple, there is a tourist village of Karangrejo that you should visit.This tourist village is not only beautiful with a variety of tourist activities, Karangrejo is also one of the villages that has managed to obtain Sustainable Tourism Village certification from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy in early March 2021. The location of this tourist village is in Borobudur subdistrict, Magelang, Central Java.

Karangrejo Village through the Village Economic Center (Balkondes) and Tourism Awareness Community (Pokdarwis) offers a variety of attractive tourist activities. This 174-hectare village has several tourist attractions. There are Punthuk Setumbu, Chicken Church or Bukit Rhema. There is also Karangrejo Orchard and Barede Hill.Besides tourist spots, this village also offers tour packages around the village, including to these tourist spots. If you want to visit these tourist spots, you can take the "Dolan Desa Karangrejo" tour package offered by the village-owned enterprises, the Village Economic Center and Tourism Awareness Community. Some of the packages available include Short, Medium, Long, Sunrise and Comparative Study packages.  For the Short package, the price is IDR 250,000 per pax. The facilities include two visits to the selected tourist attractions, transportation around the tourist village as well as food and drink. Medium package, the price is IDR 350,000 per pax. The facilities are two visits to the selected tourist attractions, visits to the village micro, small and medium enterprises (UMKM) products, transportation around the village as well as food and drink. Long package, the price is IDR 450,000 per pax.The facilities are three visits to tourist destinations, visit to micro, small and medium enterprises (UMKM) or educational practices, transportation around tourist villages as well as two-times food and drink. Sunrise Package, the price is IDR 350,000 per pax, minimum of four pax, including sunrise facilities at Punthuk Setumbu, breakfast, visit to the village micro, small and medium enterprises (UMKM) and transportation around the tourist village.The last one is Comparative Study Package, the price is IDR 250,000 per pax, a minimum of 20 pax. The facilities include two sources from the village-owned enterprises and Tourism Awareness Community, two sightseeing tours, food and drink as well as transportation around the tourist village.

You can also enjoy the beauty of Karangrejo by traveling around in a Volkswagen (VW) car. The price is IDR 175,000 per pax. The tour duration is 4 to 4.5 hours. You can also get around by jeep, andong or horse carriage and ontel bicycle. Karangrejo village has water tourism too. You can also choose a rafting tour, which stimulates adrenaline.You will be invited to go down the river for about 12.5 kilometers in 3.5 to 4 hours. This tourist village also offers outbound tour package at a price of IDR 100,000 per pax. It includes welcome drink and snack, a place for outbound, sound, outbound trainer, outbound equipment and lunch. The outbound duration is 4 to 4.5 hours. That was Indonesian Wonder.

Lombok Island in West Nusa Tenggara offers many beautiful and amazing beach tourism destinations. One of them is Tanjung Aan Beach. You will feel different things when you take a walk on this beach because of the texture of the sand which is not common compared with most other beaches where the beach sand is usually small and fine grains. But on Tanjung Aan beach, the grains of sand are in large round shapes like pepper, so that the local people call it pepper beach or flour beach. The beach is surrounded by several hills. You can easily reach the hill to see beautiful beach views from a height.Around this beach, you will see several wooden umbrellas with knitted straw as the roof which is one of the attractions of Tanjung Aan Beach where you can lie down under the umbrella while enjoying young coconuts that are sold on this beach. On this beach there is also a restaurant that provides a variety of cuisines from local and other regions.

Tanjung Aan Beach is located about 75 kilometers from Mataram City. If you are from Mataram City, you can use a private motor vehicle, which takes approximately 1.5 hours. You can also rent a motorbike or car from Mataram City to reach this beach, because if you use public transportation, it’s only wasting time and is quite inconvenient.

Besides lying down and relaxing under a thatched umbrella while enjoying the beauty of the beach, visitors can also swim and surf, because the waves at Tanjung Aan Beach are not too big so it is perfect for swimming, snorkeling, and surfing. The right time to surf is in the afternoon, because at that time the sea level will start to rise, making Tanjung Aan Beach the right place for surfing.

If you want to spend the night at Tanjung Aan Beach, you can stay at a Rotel (hotel house) or inn belonging to the local residents. With the Rotel, visitors can stay with the house owner and eat together, so that intimacy is formed between visitors and local residents. Each Rotel has a different price, depending on the facilities offered by the homeowner.

Voice of Indonesia presents Let’s Speak Indonesian, a program that introduces the Indonesian vocabulary and guides you to speak in the language. Mari Berbahasa Indonesia or Let’s Speak Indonesian is a joint initiative of Voice of Indonesia and the Language Development Agency of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.  Today’s topic is about Kesehatan which means Health.

Here is the conversation entitled “Uji Usap Covid-19” which means “Covid-19 Swab Test”. This dialog is between Kevin and Mela on the phone. Kevin asks Mela doubtfully.

After listening to the conversation, now I am going to introduce some vocabulary and expressions related to the topic of the day.

In the dialog, you listen to an expression Uji usap (2X) which means Swab test. It is an expression related to theCovid-19 pandemic. Swab test is done to detect corona virus.

Other examples:

Let’s listen to the other examples of using the expression tes usap (2X) which means swab test.

If someone asks Siapa yang perlu tes usap? (2X) which means Who needs swab test?

You may answer Saya (2X) which means Me

Hari ini kantor menyelenggarakan tes usap untuk seluruh karyawan (2X) which means Today the office holds swab tests for all employees

Oh begitu (2X) which means Oh I see

hat was “Let’s Speak Indonesian” for today. Hopefully, this edition can be useful for those of you who want to know more about Indonesian language. 

To attract visitors to the Indonesian product exhibition at the "Indonesia Bazaar", the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo held a Japanese-language shadow puppet show with Indonesian diaspora puppeteers. Indonesia Bazaar aims to promote Indonesian products, including food and beverage products, namely coffee, tea and herbal, as well as clothing products. Indonesian Ambassador to Japan, Heri Akhmadi appreciated a leather puppet performance at the exhibition because it combines Indonesian art and culture with Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises products, originally made in Indonesia, which are marketed. Indonesia Bazaar is held throughout the month of July.

Universitas Surabaya (Ubaya) invites hundreds of foreign students from 12 countries to join Javanese Calligraphy. The twelve countries are the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Korea, the Republic of China, India, Bangladesh, Kenya, the United States and Indonesia. This activity is one of the Ubaya Online Summer Program 2021 series with the theme "Creative Industries: During the Covid-19 Pandemic". 625 students from various leading universities in the world learned to write Javanese script virtually last Wednesday (7/7). The Ubaya Online Summer Program is a routine activity held virtually once to twice a year with a series of activities to get to know and learn about Indonesian arts and cultures.