Trimurti Theatre, Prambanan Temple, Yogyakarta
The conference dinner will take place at Prambanan Garden Restaurant, Prambanan Temple complex - Yogyakarta – Indonesia on December 5th.
Prambanan, named after the village, is the biggest temple complex in Java. There are 224 temples in the complex; three of them, the main temples are Brahma Temple in the north, Vishnu Temple in the south, and the biggest among the three which lies between Brahma and Vishnu temples is Shiva Temple (47 meters high).
These three ancient masterpieces of Hindu Architecture are locally referred to as Prambanan Temple or Lorojonggrang Temple. One of its appeals is the rich sculptural detail. The well known one is on the inner wall of the balustrade, the wonderfull vital and utterly engrossing Ramayana Epic.
Buses will be available to transfer the participants from the venue to Prambanan Temple complex at 18:00 (HARD). Dinner will be served at Prambanan Garden Restaurant from 18:30 to 19:30. Dinner will be served outdoor with Prambanan Temple as background.
At 19:30, the participants will proceed to Trimurti Theater to enjoy the Sendratari Ramayana Ballet presented by more than 50 professional dancers.
Buses will transfer the participants at the end of the ballet to the hotels.
Dinner Menu
Main Buffet:
- Rice
- Meat balls with tomato sauce
- Vegetable stir fry
- deep fry Shrimp
- rolade
- Fry Soybean-cake
- Gudeg (sweetened jackfruit vegetable dish) + fried chili sauce
- pickles, chili, rice crackers
Booth Menu:
- Candi Soup
- White Rice
- frikadel
- Rice Crackers
Live Cooking Menu:
- Fried Noodle
- Noodle
Menu Live Cooking:
- Fried dumplings
Dessert:
- Seasonal Fruit
- Wedang secang (traditional drink)
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Soft drinks and water are included in the menu. However, alcoholic drinks will be ordered separately and charged on personal account.
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Participants with accompanying persons need to buy extra tickets at the registration desk
Synopsis of Ramayana Ballet
Introduction
Prabu Janaka, the King of Mantili Kingdom has got a very beautiful
princess named Dewi Shinta. A competition is conducted in order to
decide who will be the right person to marry Dewi Shinta. Rama Wijaya,
The Prince of Ayodya Kingdom at last wins the competition.
Prabu Rahwana, the ruler of Alengkadiraja Kingdom is eager to marry Dewi Widowati. but after knowing Dewi Shinta he changes his mind since he assumes that Dewi Shinta is the incarnation of Dewi Widowati whom he searching for a long time.
Dandaka Forest
Rama Wijaya along with his wife Shinta and accompanied by his younger
brother Leksmana is adventuring until arrive in Dandaka Forest.
Unfortunately they meet Rahwana -who adored Dewi Shinta so much Shinta
in the place. Rahwana becomes eager to possess her, and in order to
realize his idea, Rahwana commutes one of his followers named Marica to
a deer called Kijang Kencana so as to attract Shinta.
Being interested in the beauty of the deer, Shinta asks Rama to capture it for her. Rama accept and leaves Shinta accompanied by Leksmana and start hunting the deer.
After waiting for a long time, Shinta becomes nervous as Rama has not arrived yet. She asks Leksmana to look for Rama. Before leaving Shinta alone, Leksmana draws a magic circle on the ground just to protect her from any possible danger.
As soon as Rahwana notices that Shinta has been left alone, he tries to kidnap her but he fails because of the magic circle which protects her life. Then he changes himself to be an old Brahmana. Shinta fels pity to the old Brahmana and that makes her to get out from the magic circle. As a result Rahwana - who becomes the old Brahmana takes her and fly away to Alengka Kingdom.
Running after the Deer
Rama shoots the deer with the bow and arrow, but the deer commutes to a
giant. A war out breaks between Rama and the giant. The giant is shot to
the death by Rama's arrow. Later on Leksmana arrives and requests Rama
to return to Shinta's place.
The Kidnap of Shinta
On the way to Alengka, Rahwana meets a garuda bird called Jatayu. But
then they fight each other since Jatayu knows that Rahwana kidnapped
Dewi Shinta -the princess of Prabu Janaka, his friend. Unfortunately
Jatayu was defeated by Rahwana for his effort to release and escape her
from Rahwana.
Finding out that Shinta is not supposed to be in her place, Rama and
Leksmana decides to search for her. In the way of searching they meet
Jatayu who is seriously wounded. At first Rama thinks that Jatayu who
has kidnapped Shinta so he decides to kill him but then Leksmana
prevents him to do so. Jatayu explains what has happened to them before
he dies.
A moment later, a white monkey named Hanuman arrives. He is delegated by his uncle, Sugriwa to look for two heroes who are able to kill Subali. Subali is a sacred man and has taken Dewi Tara, Sugriwa's beloved woman. At last Rama decides to help Sugriwa after being insisted.
Kiskendo cave
At the moment of Subali, Dewi Tara and his son are chatting suddenly
sugriwa arrives and attacks Subali. Then Sugriwa helped by Rama defeats
Subali. Sugriwa takes Dewi Tara with him again. To return Rama's
kindness, Sugriwa decides to help him in searching for Dewi Shinta. For
this purpose Sugriwa delegates Hanoman to find and investigate the
Alengka Kingdom.
Argasoka Garden
Rahwana's niece, Trijata is comforting Shinta in the garden. Rahwana
arrives to ask Shinta's willingness to be his wife. Shinta refused it.
This makes him angry and try to kill her but Trijata prevent and tells
him to be patient. Trijata promises to look after Shinta.
When Shinta feels so sad, she suddenly hear beautiful song sung by Hanoman, the white monkey. Hanoman tells her that he comes and sent by Rama to ascape her. After he explain his purpose, Hanoman starts to find out the total power of the Alengka army. Then he destroy the garden.
Indrakit. Rahwana's son succesfully captured Hanoman but Kumbokarno prevents him so that he is throwm out the Kingdom. Hanoman is sentenced burnt alive till die. But then Hanoman is able to set himself free and burn the kingdom with the fire around his body.
As soon as burn the Kingdom, Hanoman comes to Rama and explains for what has happened. Rama then goes to Alengka along with his monkey's army. He attacks the Kingdom and makes the Alengka's army in a difficult position because Indrajit-the leader of the army is death.
Since the army doesn't have a leader Rahwana orders Kumbokarno-the wise giant to be the leader of the army and fights for the Alengka Kingdom. But then Kumbokarno killed and deah by Rama's heirloom arrow. Rahwana takes over the army and starts to attack Rama and his soldiers. Rama also kills him at last. His corpse is put under the mountain of sumawana carried by Hanoman.
Rama Meets Shinta
After the death of Rahwana, Hanoman takes Shinta to meet Rama. But Rama
refused her because he thinks that she is not purified anymore. Shinta
is disappointed and to prove her faithfully to her husband she comes
into a fire and burns herself. Because of her holiness and God of fire's
help she is not burnt and safe. That makes Rama happy and finally
accepts her to be his wife again.