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YOGYAKARTA: YOGYAKARTA, YOGYA, JOGJAKARTA OR JOGJA?
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Thursday, June 26, 2008. YOGYAKARTA, YOGYA, JOGJAKARTA OR JOGJA? There are different names for Yogyakarta. Senior citizens call it Ngayogyakarta; people from East Java and Central Java name it Yogya or Yoja. Yogya is called Jogja in the slogan of Jogja Never Ending Asia. Recently, there is another name: Djokdja. All of the names refer to the same city. How could those various names for one city appear? For business purpose, the name of Jogja becomes more popular and it is used in the slogan Jogja Never E...
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YOGYAKARTA: YOGYAKARTA
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Thursday, June 26, 2008. Some people call it Jogja. Is a city with outstanding historical and cultural heritage. Yogyakarta was the centre of the Mataram Dynasty (1575-1640), and until now the kraton (the sultan's palace) exists in its real functions. Also, Yogyakarta has numerous thousand-year-old temples as inheritances of the great ancient kingdoms, such as Borobudur temple established in the ninth century by the dynasty of Syailendra. Yogyakarta is reachable by bus from Sumatra Island, Bali Island, a...