Javanese Traditions

In 2007, the government declared that Indonesia was entering the era of a "fourth-wave" economy" – creative industries. This should be the chance for our creative producers and workers to show what they can do.

What about traditional Javanese values? Apart from the heritage of literary texts, such as the Serat Centhini, which was recently translated into English, Java has a huge variety of cultural assets in physical form – handicrafts, handmade batik, and the traditional Joglo architectural form – which have been adapted to meet modern needs. Designers have been inspired by classical Javanese works, which they reinterprert in their own designs for sale and export.

Consider the comfort of the joglo house; go inside and you are soothed by natural coolness, because the joglo design allows for optimum air circulation; then feast your eyes on the glorious décor from Central and Eastern Java. Examine the furniture, ornaments, wall hangings, dressing tables and so on; you'll be enchanted immediately.

Or run your hands over an antique grobog – a rice storage vessel – now recycled for use as a coffee table. Partition screens, called gebyog, are also on display at Rumah Jawa, as well as various knickknacks from the VOC era as adornments for the Javanese furniture. Try a lenong chair, or look at an 18th-century colonial style wardrobe. Sit out on the terrace in the afternoon, order some hot tea, and stretch yourself out like a noble on a kanjengan chaise longue, near the veranda at Rumah Jawa; it will remind you of the romantic ambience of the Java of your childhood. et in their own designs for sale and export.

Unique Javanese Traditional Houses

The simplest Javanese houses have bamboo frames, posts of coconut or teak wood, and roofs of dried palm-leaf or earthenware tiles.The walls are usually made of plaited bamboo sheets, called gedek. Such houses are normally rectangular in shape, with few or no frills.
The houses of those who can afford them however, are much more elaborate and can take many shapes. Limasan is the most often seen and joglo is among the grandest.

Types of Javanese Traditional Houses

Joglo House
Limasan House
Kampung House
Panggang Pe House
Mesjidan (Tajugan) House

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Traditional architecture Java House
Typology home or residence often called "Omah", the shelter is intended for people on the island of Java. It covers the life of the 3 conditions as a living expression of the need for adequate clothing (clothing that is reasonable), Food (eating and drinking) and Board (residence). For the third condition, namely the need for housing must be met for it as a requirement to achieve a prosperous life, as if already have their own houses so they will not rent a place of shelter or often called "ngindhung". Formation is a simple expression of simplicity of life masyarakaat it. It may be seen from the depiction of the blueprint is quite simple. Usually the form of a blueprint that is applied to the square-shaped square and rectangular. This is in accordance with the aesthetics of living people who have bred firmness in carrying out the principle of responsibility of his life. While the typology of rounded or oval blueprint does not exist in the form of a blueprint home-bred people live. The form of this four-square in its development experience with the addition of a change-room addition on the side of the building and keep the unity of the form of sketch square.
Based on the history of the development of home-bred person can live dikategorikaan into 4 types of derivative mendasarinya as a form of housing. That is the traditional home of "Panggangpe", the form of "village", the form of "Limasan" and form "Joglo". Traditional forms of home "Tajug" is not used as a dwelling house, but used as a house of worship. Actual form of the above category separate based on differences in the formation of the roof as described below: