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Marriage certification? What for?

Marriage certification?  What for? Is this policy has benefit?  The government requires couples who want to get married to have a proper marriage certification for all regions in Indonesia.  Including in Jakarta. This rule will begin to be implemented in 2020. Some brides have also questioned the terms of the rule. The DKI Jakarta Provincial Health Office has also socialized the process and requirements to obtain a marriage-worthy certificate for the bride and groom. The Government said this program aims to determine the health condition of the bride and groom, provide physical and psychological health information, and ensure the bride and groom are ready to get married. This marriage-worthy certificate is contained in the Governor Regulation of the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (DKI) Number 185 of 2017, that the bride and groom who is going to get married can have a health check at the nearest health center or hospital. The bride and groom will do a medic...

Pare

PARE You must have been  go to a place and that place was  unique. Well, n o exception in the English village, Pare, Kediri. In addition to the large number of English language institutes,  Pare in this English village certainly has its own uniqueness.  One year ago, I studied at Pare  in   Jawa   Timur .  There  were many unique things that I got on that place. The first unique thing was cycling. Someone once said "If you go somewhere, there are a lot of traffic jams and the traffic jams of the bicycle users means you are in Pare" ... that sentence sounds funny didn’t it? but it's real guys ... there were several road locations in Pare that it was indeed jammed   onthel  bicycle users. If we were  in a big city, usually the traffic is motor vehicle users, well, if this pare was also jammed, but the traffic of the bicycle users was because there was a means of transportation everywhere using bicycle. When I was in pare...
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Ngarot ​ Ngarot  i s a traditional festival from   Lelea , West Java. Th is is an annual festival that held before the planting season of rice.  Ngarot  is a sign or symbol to tell villagers that it is the time to plant rice on the rice field. The first rice plant to be planted will be on the head of village’s rice field which named as  carik . There are many interesting thin gs on  Ngarot  festival based on its’ history, meaning and how it is celebrated. ​ First, from the historical background,  Ngarot  is from  Sundanese  language which means “drink”. The festival first celebrated was in a long time ago when the village was led by  Ki   Ngawi  and became the culture and annual event to celebrate in  Lelea  village until now. ​ Then, from it is meaning,  Ngarot  now becoming the big festival that is a form of gratefulness of the villagers for welcoming the plant season.  In t...