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The Indonesian city is home to some of the greatest Hindu and Buddhist temples, a thriving food scene and an area known as the Cosmological Axis, a cradle of Javanese culture. Borobudur temple, ...

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Javanese Muslims welcome Ramadan in a variety of different ways, some visiting the graves of their predecessors, cleaning the environment or cooking and praying, while others drain local springs to ...

CENTRAL JAVA, Indonesia (RNS) — Every year as Ramadan approaches, those who live on the slopes of Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu honor the dead in a deeply rooted Javanese tradition called Nyadran, ...

Halloween might be the most haunting day in the Western world, but for the Javanese nothing can beat the fright of 1 Suro — the first month in the Javanese calendar, which also falls on the Islamic ...

Dedicated to preserving the essence of Javanese marriage customs, a “mak andam” (bridal make-up artist) from Indonesia embarked on a journey of over 1,500km from Ponorogo, East Java, to Johor to share ...

According to legend, when a plague came to the city of Yogyakarta, the sultan ordered his citizens to cook sayur lodeh and stay home for 49 days. And the plague ended. According to legend, when the ...