one day in Jogja

Haji Amin and me waiting at station . We were accompanied by a young friend Hafidzah from Surabaya.

3 pm east java time ..we departed from Surabaya to Jogjakarta by Sancaka train at Gubeng station ( there are 3 railway station in Surabaya).

We arrived at Jogjakarta at 8.30 pm .. it was really long journey but alhamdulillah the train was nice and comfortable .. it was excutive aircondition train so much better then Airasia flight that fly us from LCCT airport Sepang to Surabaya airport.

On arrival at Jogja station I was nervoused .. worried if my host not showed up ... but alhamdulillah while I was stepping out of the train.. there I saw a sweet couple Brother Yus and wife Naning walked towards my husband and me.

The miracle of faith had build ukhuwah between 2 person who had not seen or communicate each other directly. In other term Islam teaches human to be friendly.

I had known brother Yus when a sister from Selangor Aishah sent me the Pin Kayu website. Aishah knew I was fond of Islamic item for collection. Now i had become brother Yus customer perhaps more then that we have brotherhood relation .


This is our host home .. cute, beautiful, clean and peaceful. But there are some cracks due to earth quake happen last year 2006 . We spent one night in this home.. sleeping like a log ..ZZzzzzz..

Very far far behind this home there stand Merapi mountain a volcanoe that is still active. According to brother Yus 3 great disaster happened in Indonesia .. (tsunami in Banda Aceh, earthquake in jogjakarta and mud flood in Surabaya) had created terriblly recline to Indonesia economy. So he need to take steps to go abroad introducing his product through internet.. and he really did !! Congratulation brother !!

The terrace paddy field can be seen near to our host village . This gives beautiful scenery to the village

We were standing at the entrance of the temple Borobudur .. one of the ancient Budhist temple in Jogja that still preserved although the community surrounding were majority Muslim . Borobudur temple 40 km away from brother Yus home.

This Temple is used once a year during the celebration of Vesak day. Untill now it is celebrated in peace ... This remind me to our brothers and sisters in most country where Muslim community has no freedom to practice Islam ..for example in Baitul maqdis where the Muslims were having great resistance from the Israel regime to perform worship in the masjidil Aqsa.. Muslim student cannot wear jilbab in france .. Loud speaker is not allow to use for azan in western country but the loud sound from the church bell is allowed.

This is an extraordinary bamboo ... has been kept in a muzium of Indonesian books of record and beside the funny bamboo is the biggest man's shirt. In this muzium u can see many extraordinary things , people and activities .. Peoples like to see most amazing things hopefully we not forget this all are inspired by our Most Superior Creator Allah swt ..

These 3 pictures are the residence of Jogja sultan that has no authority to rule the province .. Looking at a few statue located in this area may make u think they are hindus or buddhist .. but actually the sultan are muslim .. It seem that the kings loves statue alot . May Allah help them to understand that He forbid all these statue ...

A visit at Batik Galery near to the Sultan Istana is very exciting place to those who loves arts .. these batik are handmade call mencanting batik ... The motive of arts are mainly the traditional lifes of local people .

Thanks to Allah... it was very nice day .. not hot eventhough it seem going to rain but no rain .. the day really welcome us to Jogja...but we still need some energy input after whole day visit .. Pempek restaurant is our target for refreshment. Pempek a cuisine that was basiccally made of fish with various kind of presentation .. The name is very uncommon to me but the taste not much different from popular food in malaysia like fish ball , fish nugget or keropok lekor ...

Our last visit was at sanggar ( workshop) Brother Yus where he produce wooden items such as pin, keychain, tuding Quran (something like books mark) , and handphone accessory... with a male and a few female staff who were doing very fine arts on a tiny piece of wood .. MasaAllah hw patient there are u cant imagine !!! .. If I were going to do that I would have back pain or neck pain.



That's it !! Phew ! my one day visit in Jogja .. at abt 3 am we departed from Jogja railway station to Surabaya for anext day visit in the second biggest city in Indonesia ..

cheers and thanks for reading