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Topic: Tengger


In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  Craters Within
Tengger's misted, dark walls pressed in upon the bleak scene, but for me it was a breathtaking place, full of wonder.
Tengger is indeed a majestic sight a quality that in itself helps to keep the parks future secure, but Gunung Bromo is also the most revered volcano in Indonesia.
Tengger's height and lack of light pollution allowed the stars to be incredible clear, swathed by the dappled band of the Milky Way, they glistened from rim to rim, lighting my path.
www.volcanicimages.com /wc/withincraters.html   (2864 words)

  
 archive: The wong Tenggers of Java
There are a total of 30 Tengger villages in Java, all in the mountainous eastern part of the island settled at the base of a large volcano, Mt Bromo.
The chief festival of the Tenggers is the celebration of Kasada at the holy Mt Bromo, considered to be the abode of Brahma (Bromo), from whom the volcano de-rives its name.
The Tengger year is dotted with a number of other ritual celebrations that are also occasions for the entire community to celebrate, eat, drink and dance.
www.hvk.org /hvk/articles/0599/41.html   (1247 words)

  
 Bromo volcano (Tengger caldera), Indonesia - activity news & updates
Tengger caldera with Bromo volcano (middle left) and smoking Semeru volcano in the background.
Lava domes, pyroclastic cones, and a maar occupy the flanks of the massif.
The most recent of the Tengger calderas is the 9 x 10 km wide Sandsea Caldera at the SW end of the complex, which formed incrementally during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
www.decadevolcano.net /volcanoes/indonesia/tengger_caldera/bromo.htm   (407 words)

  
 alphaWorks : Tengger : FAQs
For each entity, Tengger creates an interface, a class implementing the attributes and associations, and an empty skeleton class that can be copied as the class in which meaningful semantic behavior is implemented.
Tengger's ability to read and write the information that you model in an extended version of the XMI standard format allows you to read and write UML models by simply using the standard physical model for UML established by OMG.
Tengger produces access code for associations in accordance with templates chosen using the stereotype you attach to the association in the UML model.
www.alphaworks.ibm.com /aw.nsf/FAQs/tengger   (842 words)

  
 GEO_PLATE_E-23.HTML   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Tengger Desert is one of three deserts on the Alashan Plain in central China.
The Tengger is in the upper half of this Plate.
The wind in the Tengger is primarily from the northwest, and the dunes are moving toward the Yellow River.
daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_8/GEO_PLATE_E-23.HTML   (515 words)

  
 The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
The name "Tengger" itself is said to be an acronymic derivation of two legendary figures from the region, Rara Anteng and Jaka Seger.
With their settlements built in clusters, Tengger villagers rely on farming as their livelihood, growing crops such as carrots, green onions, corn and potatoes grown on the slopes of Mt. Bromo, creating a panoramic view of waving green carpets.
Tengger shaman chief Mujono said ash and other materials from Bromo's emissions earlier this year caused no damage to local crops, although the volcanology agency estimated the height of the ash column at three kilometers.
www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20060528.L01   (1502 words)

  
 Tengger - Bali Accommodation Travel
You're invited deep inside Tengger houses next to the hearth because traditionally visitors must be kept warm to combat the cold outside.
The Tengger are famous for their expertly cultivated market gardens on the steep mountain slopes which surround every village in these highlands.
Although the Tengger don't believe in reincarnation, their caste system and calendar are similar to that of the Balinese.
www.baliforyou.com /indo19/tengger.htm   (269 words)

  
 Tengger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tengger Caldera, a volcanic depression in East Java, Indonesia
Tengger Desert, a desert in the Gansu province of China
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tengger   (99 words)

  
 indonesiaphoto.com - Bromo-Tengger national park
Tengger is a huge, old caldera with the Bromo volcano inside.
A legend tells the story about how the Tengger caldera was dug out with just half a coconut shell by an ogre in love with a princess.
After breakfast at one of the hotels on the edge of the Tengger caldera, the car will bring you down the green and fertile valley passing a few villages.
www.indonesiaphoto.com /content/view/117/40   (714 words)

  
 hefner hindu javanese exc
Tengger Javanese, the man added, were known to visit the site but were not its most frequent visitors.
The fact that Tengger joined in a spiritual cult which was in no way exclusively "Tengger" provides testimony to the changing self-perception of this people in the face of a revitalized Javanese Islam.
Even in those accounts in which Tengger reportedly identify these ritual events with the servants of Mohammad and Ajisaka, villagers are also heard to identify these ritual activities with sexual and fertility themes not mentioned in the Aji myth.
www.bu.edu /cura/about/hefnermaterials/hefnerhindujavaneseexc.htm   (6642 words)

  
 Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
P.O. Bromo Tengger Semeru National Parks is a technical field authority unit under Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation -Department of Forestry declared by Decision Letter of Ministry of Forestry number 1049/Kpts-II/1992, dated November 12, 1992.
Declaration of Bromo Tengger Semeru area as a National Park is bassed on some considerations, i.e : rare and endemic flora, habitat of migrant wildlife, unique ecosystem, active volcano, scenery of nature, cultural and traditional lives of local people, as a catchment area for waterresources around the area, etc.
The word TENGGER deriving from the coining of the last syllable of their name this TENG-GER, from the word ' Tenggering Budi Luhur" which symbolises High Morality and Piece.
www.geocities.com /RainForest/4466/bromo1.htm   (1263 words)

  
 Basa Jawa Tengger - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Basa Jawa Tengger, dipituturake karo wong-wong Tengger sing urip ing imbange Gunung Brama.
Basa Jawa Tengger tansah nyimpen cara pangucapan lan ukara-ukara sing asaling saka Basa Kawi, lan kadang ora dipangerteni karo wong-wong Jawa liyane.
Wong Tengger ngarani basa Jawa biasa iku "Basa Ngisor".
jv.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basa_Jawa_Tengger   (100 words)

  
 BROMO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Bromo - Tengger is an active volcano that is lying on volcanic inner arc, caused by the collision of the Eurasia and India-Australia plates.
Hirokawa (1980) stated that the most volcanoes in the volcanic inner arc are stratovolcanoes built up mainly of andesite, many of which are active, but some of them have cinder cones and or lava domes as central and parasitic volcanoes.
There are three peculiar aspects to in G. Bromo - Tengger which attracted them, the Sapikerep valley, the Cemara Lawang ridge and the Sand sea caldera with its flat surface.
www.vsi.esdm.go.id /volcanoes/bromo/geology.html   (1712 words)

  
 Kasada Ceremony at Mt. Bromo
To the south is a rolling upland plateau dissected by valleys and dotted with several small scenic lakes, extending to the foot of Mount Semeru, a towering grey forest-skirted cone dominating the southern landscape.
In the full moon night (the 14th day) in Kasodo month, Tengger tribe who is the descendant of Roro Anteng and Joko Seger and believed in Hinduism go togather to Poten Bromo sand sea to see the examnination of medicine men memorizing prayers.
And then early in the morning, the medicine man and Tengger tribe climbed to the peak of Bromo Mountain to throw the gifts, that is crops and cattle, into the crater of Mountain Bromo.
www.petra.ac.id /tourism/kasada.htm   (1075 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The topography is dominated by the 10km Tengger Caldera, which is one of the largest and most well-defined of its type in Java.
A mean annual temperature in the lowlands of 18°C varies with altitude, and frosts occur regularly (Beudels and Hardi, 1980).
Fauna Despite the extensive grasslands, the Tengger caldera fauna is characterised by a lack of grazing mammals which may be due to anthropogenic disturbance.
www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0229v.htm   (1557 words)

  
 kesada_ceremony.htm
At its northern end is the spectacular Tengger Caldera, Java's largest, with its 10 km barren desert-like sea of sand.
The word 'Tengger' itself is said to have been derived from a combination of the last syllables of the two rulers names: 'Teng' and 'Ger'.
Another meaning of the word Tengger is 'Tenggering Budi Luhur', meaning eternal peace and high morality.
www.baliglobalmarket.com /go_around/kesada_ceremony.htm   (1078 words)

  
 Photos of Bromo volcano, the Tengger caldera and Semeru volcano, Java (Indonesia)
In the foreground, ancient Semeru, in the background the Tengger caldera, seen from Semeru's summit.
Sunrise on the rim of the Tengger caldera.
Dust devil on the Sand Sea, Tengger caldera.
www.decadevolcano.net /photos/java_photos_tengger_volcano_01.htm   (165 words)

  
 Dialek Tengger - Wikipedia
Dialek Tengger dipituturke ing tlatah Gunung Bromo sing kalebu wilayah Pasuruan, Probolinggo, Malang lan Lumajang.
Ing Pasuruan, cara Tengger ditemokake ing kecamatan Tosari, sabanjure ing Probolinggo, tlatah kecamatan Sukapura, menawi Malang, cara Tengger dituturke ning wilayah desa Ngadas, kecamatan Poncokusumo.
Dialek iki dianggep turunan basa Kawi lan tansah akeh mertahanke ukara-ukara kunaan sing wis ora digawe maneh ning Basa Jawa anyaran.
jv.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dialek_Tengger   (124 words)

  
 EO Natural Hazards: Dust Storm in the Tengger Desert
A dust storm swept through the Tengger Desert in north-central China on February 12, 2006.
In this image, the dust storm appears as a pale beige swath spreading from the southeast toward the northwest.
The Tengger Desert is an inland drainage basin far from any ocean.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov /NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=13371   (141 words)

  
 Tengger desert on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Photo was taken in the margins of the Tengger Desert, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, West China.
Tengger Desert covers an area of 36,700 square kilometers,
The word "Tengger" origins form the Mongolian, which means "as immense as the sky".
www.flickr.com /photos/84731106@N00/34521052   (150 words)

  
 Indonesian Religions
Besides the growth of Neo-Hinduism there has been a Neo-Buddhist expansion.
This is rooted in the Tengger, the only extant folk-Buddhist population, living near the volcano of Mount Bromo on Java.
Since 1965 the Indonesian Buddhist Association says it has built ninety monasteries and has won fifteen million followers.
philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/indon/geness.html   (1873 words)

  
 TrekEarth | Tengger Kid Photo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Tengger is local tribe lives in Bromo highland, East Java Indonesia.
Different from most Javanese who's Moslem, Tengger people is Hindu.
Shallow DOF was achieved by using tele lens and wide aperture, to isolate main subject from its surroundings
www.trekearth.com /gallery/Asia/photo122295.htm   (92 words)

  
 Tengger Caldera, Java, Indonesia
The massive Tengger volcanic complex dates back to the early Pleistocene and consists of five overlapping stratovolcanoes, each truncated by a caldera.
The most recent of the Tengger calderas is the 9 x 10 km wide Sandsea caldera, which formed incrementally during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
Link to Global Volcanism Network's Tengger Caldera Information
users.bendnet.com /bjensen/volcano/indonesia/java-tengger.html   (256 words)

  
 ukirsari Tengger Caldera Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
Speaking about this Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park, the whole of this area simply known as Mount Bromo.
But in fact, there are three mountains in the caldera [known as Tengger Massif], a volcanic landscape with Gunung Bromo, Batok and Kursi laying on its flat sea of lava sand.
This page is very useful and helpful to me as I plan a trip to the Tengger Caldera.
members.virtualtourist.com /m/2da47/126153   (555 words)

  
 Acclaim Images - tengger photos, stock photos, pictures, tengger stock photography
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