The number of foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia in the first semester 2007 was up 12.2 percent compared to the figure for a corresponding period in 2006, a tourism ministry official said. 

The native peoples of Mount Bromo, East Java, called Tengger Clan have unique traditional thanksgiving ritual, the Yadnya Kasada, will take place at Mount Bromo, Probolinggo district, on August 26-27 or 10 days earlier than last year when it was held September 6-7. 

Buddhist sites that constitutes location to get asceticism monk, found at Cermee's hillside at silvan Jireg, Cermee's district, Bondowoso's regency, East java.
 
"That constitute consecration place monks the only one at the world," say chairman Board Of doyen Sangha Therapada Indonesian (STI or Ulama's Ceremony Indonesian / MUI in Buddha's religion), Dhammasubha Mahatera's monk, at Surabaya, Monday.