Amazing Malioboro

Malioboro. In The Field Project 2010 (KKL 2010) the Commitee decided to visit Malioboro as one of the Tourist object to visit. Malioboro or Malioboro street is one of the Most Popular tourist object in Jogjakarta. No one forget with Malioboro when they visit Jogjakarta.

Located in the central of the Jogjakarta city, makes Malioboro street always and always be crowded everyday. Many people say, or even the tourists say that "Malioboro Never sleeps". We can see from the crowded in all over the street by the sellers of many things and tourists from the evening till morning ofcourse.

Malioboro as one of the Main / Protocol street in Jogjakarta is also be one of the Most crowded business centre. We can find so many business activities in this place. Beside that, it also has connection with the Jogjakarta's History, as we know that Malioboro street is also near with the Keraton Jogjakarta ( Jogjakarta Palace ).

Business activities in Malioboro, mainly dominated by the trading activities or shopping activities, in small context ofcourse. Souveniers, Batiks, and everything special from Jogjakarta are here. The visitors and tourists mostly are local people outside of Jogjakarta. But, we still also find several Foreigners came and did sideseeing there, or even buy several souveniers.

KKL 2010 visited Malioboro, seemed nice to us. Shopping is the one thing that could not be left away. Evening, all participants of KKL arrived in Malioboro, but there were raining. But shopping desire could not be held on. Waited for a moment, and we did the action to see and to buy something special there. One most important rule that we have to remeber when we are shopping in Malioboro is "BARGAIN". Because the seller might make the price of the stuffs be more and more expensive than before, if You are a great bargainer here is the place for you to hunt and to get better.

Malioboro today is different than in several years ago. We can see the differences are from the Facilities for example ; Parking area, and the location of the sellers. Now is better than before, we think.

Not only about Batiks, Shirts, T-shirts, and all kind of special souveniers in Malioboro, but also special food from Jogjakarta are sold here too. We were so surprissed with the number of the special food sellers in Malioboro, more and more than before. And finally we found so many kinds and brands of special foods of Jogjakarta. Bakpia pathok, Geplak, and many others are there.

Beyond all experiences about shopping there, In Malioboro we can also see the great thing that is The Cultural Transmission. If we analyze, not all the sellers in Malioboro are from Jogjakarta, most of the are from Outside of Jogjakarta. We saw how the visitors who came from different places did bargaining with them, and the differences with us. And the greatest is several or many sellers are College students from the biggest University in Jogjakarta, they worked there and some of them said the money is for paying the Fee of their Study. We think, we can compare with our Condition nowadays. ahmad.syukur // eed.ttef.umk // 2008