Malang News and Photos

Wings Air began operating the new route today from Malang - Denpasar, pp every day with the flight number IW 1841, departs from Abdul Rahman Saleh Malang Airport at 14:25 pm. While the flight number IW 1840 departs from Denpasar Ngurah Rai Airport at 14.00 pm. In February 2011, Wings Air has been carrying out orders for purchasing 15 ATR 72 - 500 series units. Between Wings Air and the ATR (Avions de Transport Regional). Thus, Wings Air will operate 30 planes. Wings Air started operating ATR 72 series 500 with 72 seats in Indonesia in January 2010 and until February 2011 had been received and operates 10 planes. Expected five more planes will gradually be received until August 2011. With the addition of a new fleet, Wings Air wants to improve its services, especially the comfort and security of the flight, as well as developing markets and increasing revenue to the airline to grow in line with the development of Lion Air. Achmad Hasan - Wings Air CEO - says that this new route fr...

Unesco keeps on assisting the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism in an attempt to rescue Borobudur Temple. The project is titled "Save the World Heritage Sites Borobudur - Emergency Operation to Save the Borobudur temple area of the damage Caused by Eruption of Merapi and the Revitalization of Public Life Through Local Cultural Industry and Tourism World Heritage". It was stated in a press release signed by the Director of UNESCO in Jakarta, Hubert Gijzen via email. He states that the purpose of this project is to protect the area of Borobudur Temple and to strengthen and promote local community after the eruption of Merapi. A tree planting activity had been held at Borobudur archaeological park. Hubert Gijzen says it helps rehabilitation Borobudur after the eruption of Merapi by a grant of three million dollars for the cleaning process from the ashes of volcanic on the temple up to the economic recovery of the surrounding community. "Mr. Hubert Gijzen d...

Indonesia has what it takes to to get its tourism industry grow better. Jurgen Nauber – the Coordinator and Consultant of Tourism and Biodiversity Unit of UN’s World Tourism Organization stated. Jurgen said, every time you come to Indonesia, tourists are greeted with a smile, the people are friendly, open, and impressive. According to Jurgen, Indonesia could become an example of a country where people are so openly welcoming guests or tourists. "I find the hospitality, people are friendly, open, and rescue each time to come to Indonesia," he said. Jurgen has been visiting Indonesia for more than 10 times. Indonesia has the capital to assess potential to be developed in terms of tourism, including natural and cultural diversity. "Currently all countries in various parts of the world, including Asia and Africa, want to advance their tourism sector. Therefore, Indonesia must be competitive," he said. He argues, Indonesia should be able to perform better and more ...

Aula SKODAM V Brawijaya is a building on the northwest of Alun-alun Malang . It is actually belonged to KODAM V Brawijaya. The building itself is now often rented by the owner to hold wedding party, workshop, seminar, and exhibition. Aula SKODAM V Brawijaya has a very strategic place. It is located at the very heart of Malang . You can go there using almost any available public transportation. It is also comfortable to reach it by foot. The Alun-alun Malang in front of the Aula itself has been one of the most visited tourism spot in Malang. If you stay at Tugu Hotel Malang , probably you can see it from your window. Or if you visit Malang by train, I bet you will pass it once you step out side the Malang Kota Baru train station .

Garuda Indonesia Airlines is the national airline of Indonesia. Garuda is a mythical bird of legend puppet. Garuda Indonesian history starting in the 1940s, in which Indonesia's independence war against the Dutch. January 26, 1949 is considered as the anniversary of Garuda Indonesia Airlines. At that time the airline name is Indonesian Airways. Their first aircraft named Seulawah or Gold Mountain , the funds to buy aircraft from donations of the people of Aceh. The plane was bought for 120,000 dollars in Malaya, which is equal to 20 kg of gold. Garuda Indonesia continues to support Indonesia against the Dutch until the revolution ended. The origin of the name Garuda began when, on December 25, 1949 Dr. Konijnenburg, facing and to report to President Sukarno in Yogyakarta that KLM interinsulair will be submitted to the government in accordance with the results of the Round Table or Round Table Conference (RTC), and requested the President to name for the company because the p...

Garuda Indonesia Airlines has been flying since 1949 – originally during Indonesia's struggle to break its Dutch colonial ties. 1961 saw the beginning of international flights to Hong Kong, and in 1965 service to Amsterdam began Garuda Indonesia's Europe international flights. Today, Garuda Indonesia Airlines flies international and global routes include: Europe: London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt Middle East: Jeddah, Riyadh, Dhahran Northeast & Southeast Asia: Seoul, Fukuola, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Medan, Singapore Australia & New Zealand: Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Auckland Garuda Indonesia also expands its service throughout Indonesia Its Indonesian domestic and regional routes include: Jakarta Bali (Denpasar) Batam Pekanbaru Padang Palembang Pontianak Semarang Yogyakarta Solo Surabaya Balikpapan Banjarmasin Makassar Ampenan Menado Biak Jayapura Timika

Starting from this October, Garuda Indonesia started to fly the new state-of-the-art Airbus A330-200 aircraft on direct non-stop routes between Jakarta and Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Melbourne. This A330-200 will also be used on selected Indonesia domestic flights between Jakarta and Denpasar/ Bali, Makassar, and Singapore. Unfortunately, Malang is not on the list yet. Airbus A330-200 is really a great plane. It is equipped with Rolls Royce Trent 772 engines that is designed to lower overall environmental impact and created to offer every possible innovation in order to give the best flight experience for the guest. The Executive Class, full-flat seats are equipped with an individual power outlet; reading lamp; foot and head rests; personal storage space; and an in-arm, 11-inch, touch-screen LCD. All service classes are provided with audio-visual, on-demand, in-flight, entertainment programs. If you fly with Garuda Indonesia’s A330-200, you may choose from...

Malang held the Malang Tempo Doeloe 2010 successfully, despite of some comments from visitors who said that this 2010 Tempo Doeloe was not as big as the 2009’s. Anyway, I agree that this event is really good in attracting people to visit Malang . It means a lot to Malang which wants to be known as one of tourism destination in Indonesia. Congratulation to the committee and of course beloved Aremania. Here are some photos from the Malang Tempo Doeloe 2010,     Actually I have many other Malang Tempo Doeloe 2010 photos on my netbook , but I don’t think it is appropriate to put it here. Many of them are showing that I’m just too narciss, hehe … Those pictures above are in 360x270 pixels only due to the very slow internet connection I have. It will take more than 30 minutes to upload them. If you want to download the original ones, follow this link: download Malang Tempo Doeloe 2010 Photos .

Malang is known as a flower city . That “was” true. Nowadays, Malang is more known as educational city as there are many universities here. If you want to find flowers, then I recommend Batu . If you have already in Malang, you should visit Batu. There you will find many beautiful flower plantations. Maybe because Batu –as a place where flowers in Malang come from- had been a part of Malang, while Malang is bigger than Batu, then Malang “was” called as a flower city. This is only my assumption then. Now it depends to the Malang’s government and its citizen to reconstruct Malang, whether to let it to be a different kind of city, or go back to what the world has known about it, as a city of flower. As other Indonesian city, Malang also has Aloon-aloon, or Alun-alun in Indonesian, as a place for people to gather and enjoy their time. Alun-alun Malang also serves that function. Do you know how the Malang’s Alun-alun becomes so popular for the Dutch? There is a book entitled “...

Another affordable train service from Malang to Bandung. If you want to go to Bandung from Malang , or in vice versa, starting from April 30, 2010 you don’t have to transit in Surabaya anymore. The Indonesia Train Service launches the “Malabar” – the train that serves the Malang – Bandung train route. According to Adji Djulianto, the chief of Kota Malang Train Station , Malabar will have 9 railway coaches that consists of 2 executives, 3 business class, and two economic class, one for dining car and one for freight car. Based on the survey, Adji said that the demand for a train that serves the Malang – Bandung train route is relatively high. Before this, if people want to go to Bandung from Malang, or from Bandung to Malang, they take the bus. If they want to take the train, they have to go to Surabaya first. What about the Malabar’s ticket’s fare? For executive class, it is Rp. 220.000,- Business class: Rp. 150.000,- ; and economic class: Rp. 90.000,- The good news is...

This year, Garuda Indonesia Airways is promoting the East Java tourism to get visitor’s attention. “This tourism promotion has been the program of Garuda Indonesia to support Indonesian culture and tourism to be well known and attract people to come. Especially this 2010, East Java tourism is the target.” In order to introduce the east java tourism , Garuda Indonesia has been cooperating with East Java government. Like giving examples of east java’s handicraft, culture and art, or natural tourism like Bromo and Ijen crater. Furthermore, Garuda Indonesia also tries to bring the best east java traditional dancer to perform in a culture and art exhibition abroad to let east java known. In this promotional package, Garuda Indonesia will offer tourism package to foreign tourists. It is so lamentable to know that people only know Bali. So, by  implementing this promotional program, Garuda is hoping that people would visit East Java after or before going to Bali . This East Jav...