Kamis, 30 Juli 2009

Singapore Shines by Batik Karnival


When the players Solo Batik Carnival (SBC) to appear on stage Civic Plaza, Ngee Ann City, Orchard Road, Singapore, Saturday (18 / 7), shopping center in the city of Lion nan crowded as it would explode. Thundering drum sound in the style of bulk Brazilian music combined the gamelan orchestra sound is dominated saron (perkusi from the brass plates), the vessel call their thatch ago. When they arrive, they do shown a number of dancers costumer glamor nan unique.

Faces of the dancers painting motif with bright colors placed grains silvery and golden color. Their bodies, Januar, anneke, Nining, Kwita, Uli, Asti, Ragowo, Fania, Wissyu, Suryadi, Novita wrapped and layered clothing to dress like a chicken cage people in medieval Europe.

Clothes on the sidelines of the terselip many sampur and batik shawl. Head of their full range of tassel tassel-bak swell tails peafowl. Similarly, the wing-wing cloth that sometimes they wing. They hang party toping wood in the forehead, head, waist and hip. Some dancers install two flag flag-bearer in the back of their clothes in the style of general China in the era of empire.

Thousands of visitors come see the appearance change silih SBC with astonishment. Some choose to defend SBC completed appear on stage music while following the rhythm and enjoy the dance movement gado-gado is a traditional-kontemprorer. Actually feel amazed the visitors had already felt since the dancers costumer crowded behind this present stage.

The photo interpreter and visitors while they scramble for taking still make up their end of the face. While they practice to design a small movement. When they sort out costumes. But the visitor and the interpreter is tempted photo elegancy costumes as they do not care. They were not reluctant to reprimand players berfoto together with their families. And as already trained, friendly with the players fulfill their requests and mixed.

When the players showing them the end came to the audience, going back a similar atmosphere. Envelop the audience and snapshot fight with the players. Meanwhile, the orchestra sound timpano Brazil continue intermittent sometimes heave a gamelan orchestra.

SBC spokesman, Head of Promotion and Cooperation Office of Cultural Tourism Surakarta City, General Mufti acknowledges Rahardjo, SBC adopted the dish carnival party that is held each year in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. And the result was no less excited with karnival in their countries. He does not claim to look hard to prepare like this, because, enthusiastic people who want to engage Solo SBC, high, more than that, "Solo since I first known as the city's carnival is a language other karnival or carnival," he said.

He explains, SBC was formed with the spirit and want to create tags for the branding industry with the Indonesian batik art resemble showtimes SBC as presented. Indonesian Ambassador to Singapore, Wardana add, therefore, events and tourism promotion of handicraft products in India which is packed event Enchanting Indonesia 3 involved three large companies batik, Batik Danar Hadi, Batik Keris, and Batik Semar. "We have entered the era well, mass. Therefore, the business is not enough with batik batik handicrafts. There must be a growth industry batik tower. We want beginning from Singapore," he said.

Mufti, said SBC's second appearance this mask with three themed characters, character or noble flag, rover, or anger, and gecul or scream. "In addition to practice in Pendapi Gedhe, Solo, two months before the show, we follow the workshop on how to set itself, choosing, and create costumes and the way berbusana, walk, communicate with the audience and the atmosphere, deep into one of three character mask," said Ragowo Ade is still a student at the University of Muhammadiyah, Solo, Central Java. Not surprisingly, during their appearance in the Enchanting Indonesia 3, the event they become stars. They see each camera to them, with their spontaneous photos off vessel model without the effect of charming and friendly huddle in the middle of the visitors.

The deficit

Enchanting Indonesia 3 also presents a number of dances from the region of North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau Islands, Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta Special Region, and East Java. They appear with a variety of local dance clothes that make high-quality visitor say amazed. One of the areas of art that get rave is the art reog be Reog Sadupi (Indonesian Ambassador of Peace) of Wonogiri, Central Java.

Reog formed an 80-year by Regent Wonogiri, Begug Purnomosidi this, have some time to appear abroad as in the Albert Hall, England, the Netherlands, Germany and France. According Jubir Reog Sadupi, Mrs. Ida Erawati, after Malaysia reog claimed as traditional Malaysian arts, invitations to foreign appear on stage among arts groups reog, increase, including an invitation to Reog Sadupi.

According Wardana, enthusiastic public campaign event on Singapore's tourism industry and handicraft Indonesia continues to increase. Enchanting Indonesia if the first 22,000 tourists visited in two days, then the second Enchanting visited 30,000 tourists. Seeing this, KBRI intend to make this event become a regular event every year in July.

"We deliberately chose the location in the central shopping area in order to easily attract tourists or foreign residents in Singapore. Projected we reach middle-market tourists. In addition to the quantity of more promising, more services are so simple to move the capital of tourism can be smaller. Principles I, if you want to develop the industry, start with all the things that are mass. Similarly, our tourism industry, "said Wardana.

He admitted, until now, a matter of foreign exchange earnings from this sector, Indonesia is still a deficit of Singapore. Each year if Singapore is able to attract tourists as much as 1.7 million Indonesian people, then Indonesia is able to attract new tourists to Indonesia, Singapore as 1.4 million people. However he reminded, from 6.6 million foreign tourists to Indonesia in 2007, 1.4 million of them are from Singapore. Singapore itself is able to bring in each year 10 million foreign tourists while Malaysia has reached 22 million.

Wardana hopes, the national tourism industry and a number of industry participate can be pushed by the good bilateral relations between Indonesia and Singapore, because, for Indonesia, Singapore is a strategic area for get tourists from other countries.

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