Writing in Professional Context

RIDAKA - Pekalongan Handicrafts House Industrial Ridaka is a handicraft industrial house in Pekalongan, Central Java, which is a pioneer in the use of ATBM (Non-Machine Weaving Equipment). It is located on Jl. Haji Agus Salim. The company was founded in 1940, and now has a variety of products that have been spread abroad. There, we can see a workshop in the back of the house, where employees weave yarn into pieces of cloth.  The purpose of making RIDAKA was to empower the local community by a figure named Abdul Kadir Muhammad. This he has done since 50 years ago. It turns out that the name Ridaka is a reverse reading of Abdul Kadir's name which is usually abbreviated as A. Kadir. Products that produced by Ridaka start from household appliances such as carpets, doormats, pillowcases, tissue boxes, dining mats, towels, to trinkets like wallets, bags, clothes, even shoes and sandals. In addition to using cotton and yarn, Ridaka also uses water hyacinth, ban...

Jlamprang Batik Dance This dance originally created as a welcoming ceremony for the First Lady, Ani Yudhoyono, who will visit Pekalongan City in the context of the 2012 Nusantara Batik Week. The creator of this dance is Yoyok Bambang Priambodo from the Semarang City Greget dance studio. The dance creator along with the crew from the Pekalongan City government made observations about Pekalongan City, the cultural potential of this city, and the observers found the Pekalongan City's uniqueness related to batik which is not owned by other cities in the form of Jlamprang batik. 1. Movements Jlamprang Batik dance is danced by women only. In Jlamprang Batik Dance there are two kinds of dance movements, including meaningful movements which is a dance movement in its expression containing a certain meaning or intent and pure motion that is a dance motion that does not contain a specific purpose and meaning, only for aesthetic. In the movement of the Jlamprang Batik dance...

Last Hope One day, lived a girl named Raily Asterisk at Phoebe Village with her modest family, consist of father, mother, and her big sister. Raily was 18 years old. Raily was not smart girl indeed. But, she has talent. Not all people have talent like her. She like to  drawing started she was 5 years old. Raily's parents expected that their last daughter can be Civil Servant. Because, being Civil Servant considered elite in her village. She will also be respected by people around her dwelling. However Raily unwanted to being Civil Servant. She did not interested absolutely. She more interested with fine arts world. Because of that, she decided to choosen Fine Arts Major at university. Yet, her parents did not agree and doubted. "Are you sure with your choice? Withal, after graduating from the fine arts major, what will you be?" her father asked. Raily's sister not get a work yet, whereas she graduated from  Department of Catering at Vocational School. That's...

Pekalongan Post Office Hi! My name is Nadia Kusuma Putri. Last friday at 10.30 am, I visited the post office in Pekalongan. It is located at Cendrawasih Street number 1 Pekalongan, Panjang Wetan, North Pekalongan. Across from Jatayu field. This post office open from 8.15am - 21.15pm. It has a typical Dutch colonial architectural style, which make different from the others post office. Since time in the past, the building has not changed. From the time to time, only the color of the paint changes. The color was not far from orange and beige. Because the place was strategic, people feel easy to visit this post office. To  the right of the building, actually there is a minimarket. But I did not get to take a picture. The parking area is so spacious. At that time, the first post office was built from Dutch at Batavia (now Jakarta), by General Governor G.W. Baron Van Imhoff on 26 August 1746. Pekalongan City was the seat of government in the period of Dutch colonia...