Author: Elisabeth Oktofani

2014 Bogor Care Jazz Festival

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The 2014 Bogor Jazz Festival will raise donation for the unfortunate cancer patients in Bogor. Antanan Event Focus and Paguyuban Bogor will hold a charity music concert for two days, June 6-7, 2014. ‘Jazz Leisure and Care’ will be the theme of the first edition of Bogor Jazz Festival. The festive will be held at Padjadjaran Suite Resort and Jungle Mall Bogor Nirwana Residence Bogor. During the two days music event, there would be a blood donor section as well as an auction section. Prior to the event, the organiser will also launch ‘Toko Cinta’. Toko Cinta is an offline and online shop that would sell a great variety of second-hand products and new products from the donors such as book, cooking equipment and also clothes. However they would only sell stuff at price range of Rp10,000 to Rp100,000. The offline shop Toko Cinta will be opened at the secretariat office of Paguyuban Bogor in Jalan Pandu Raya No 43, Bogor for three days, on February 1, March 1, and April 5. According to official website of Bogor Jazz Festival, 90% of the sale of the goods would be donated to the cancer patients in Bogor. The donation will be symbolically given to the cancer patient or cancer foundation in Bogor by the Bogor Regent scheduled for June....

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Don’t Miss it! The 2014 Indonesia Fashion Week Starts Tomorrow

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – The opening ceremony of 2014 Indonesia Fashion Week will be held Thursday (20 Feb) at the Plenary Hall of the Jakarta Convention Center. The major Indonesia’s fashion event will take four days. In this third annual event, the Indonesia Fashion Week will be featuring over 512 brands with 208 fashion designers. The designers will bring their latest collection on women wear, men wear, children wear and also accessories. The 2014 Indonesia Fashion Week will also highlight the green movement, the Indonesia’s traditional costume of Kebaya, Digital Fashion Show and also the rise of Indonesia Muslim Fashion....

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When Your Fashion Is Dangerous to Your Health

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Are you one of the big fans of luxury fashion product? Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani or Christian Dior? If so, here is some bad news for you. Just before the 2014 Milan Fashion Week, Greenpeace International issued a report waterway pollutants in luxury fashion brands on Monday (17 Feb). Those brands include Dolce&Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Versace, Hermes, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs. In 2011 Greenpeace found a variety of hazardous chemical in fashion products made by 20 global fashion brands. The chemical included the high level of toxic phthalates in four of...

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Cleaning Up Kelud’s Ash, Borobudur Temple Closed for 10 Days

JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Central Java Cultural Heritage Preservation Agency (BCPB) officers Monday morning (Feb 17) start cleaning up the ash and sands of erupted Kelud mountain covering the temples in central Java region such as Borobudur, Plaosan, and Prambanan, Kompas.com reported. The cleaning up of temples might take 7-10 days and the temples’ authority decided to close for tourists and visitors during the cleaning up period. As a result, the temples would face potential loss of Rp500 million per day. Marsis Sutopo, the head of Borobudur Conservation Agency, said Mount Kelud’s ash was more corrosive than Mounth Merapi’s ash,...

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Last Minute Valentine’s Dinner Venue

It’s Friday again and today is Valentine’s day. So, have you decided what you are going to do with the beloved one? Perhaps going out for a romantic candlelights dinner, giving a box of chocolates, bouquet flowers or are you not going to do anything at all? Well, here we have some recommendation of good restaurant that you can go to celebrate the day of love with your beloved one. Loewy Located in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, the retro yet classic restaurant invites the lovebirds to have an intimate Valentine’s day dinner for lovebirds with a special set menu of Classic French Dishes with Wine pairing. But if you are single, don’t be worry about it! You can still enjoy the Valentine’s day in Loewy because they offer an array of romance-inspired cocktails. Loewy Jalan Lingkar Mega Kuningan E 42 No 1, South Jakarta Telephone (021) 2554237 Cacaote Valentine is identical with sweets and chocolate and if tonight you want to have some sweet and cakes, you can try Cacaote. Located in Jalan Senopati, Cacaote offers various different of cake and western dishes in an elegance yet classy restaurant in South Jakarta. Cacaote Jalan Senopati Raya No 80, South Jakarta Telephone 021-2930 6127 Bengawan Have no idea what to eat but want to try any kind of dishes for romantic dinner in a buffet restaurant? Well, you can try...

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