Yogyakarta, Yogya or Jogja

Yogyakarta Province

Formally, the name of district is Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Province. Daerah Istimewa means special district refers to special status of province. The reasn is explained partly by its long history of Yogyakarta during the colonial rule of Dutch regime, and then important role of Yogyakarta played during the struggle for nation independence. This special ststus has been constitutionally recognized by the Republic Government eversince..

The yogyakarta itself derived from the name of the great Javanese Kingdom ‘Ngayogyokarta hadiningrat’ that was found in 1755 ( see : Kasultanan Jogja). The “Yogyakarta” or “ yogya” for short, is usually pronounced ‘jogja’. Because of its easier to be pronounced, both be Indonesians and foreigner, the word jogja is used by local goverment for the slogan “ Jogja never Ending Asia”.The slogan was designed in order making a certain position of jogja amongs the important country of Asia, such as Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

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