Modern Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta is a stronghold for tradition and culture. However, it still manages to strike a balance between the traditional and modern. Throughout the years, the monarchy has continued to demonstrate its readiness to adapt and embrace the best of both worlds.
For example Sri Paduka Sultan means Glorious Sultan Hamengkubawono eigth , who ruled Yogyakarta Sultanate from 1921 to 1939, prohibited many designs, such as the Parang Rusak, the Semen Agung Sawat Garuda, the Semen Agung Sawat Lar, and the Udan Liris. Cloths with these designs were to be used only by the royal family. He further decreed that members of the family of certain ranks were only allowed to wear cloths with particular forbidden designs. For instance, the Parang Rusak (‘broken knife’) design, which resembles a twisted oval shape, could only be worn by those in the Yogyakarta Kraton (the Court) – the royal family. He also decreed that the higher the rank of the wearer the larger the motifs in the pattern could be used, indicating social status by the size of the design.
Target : Traveling around the world
Travel reminds those paying attention that they are not the only man in the world, that this is a huge world and that they are only a small, insignificant human in it. This is quite a leisure experience – to go to another country or another state and see large numbers of peoples living differently, and coming to understand how large the world actually is. When people who learn return home, they keep with them this perspective for the rest of their life and they benefit from this is knowledge and perspective.
Another benefit to traveling is coming to see one’s native country in a different light, in a different way. This is done through being able to compare and contrast home from a foreign location, done most always through traveling. A new perspective may be formed