Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Guidelines prepared for rebuilding Kotagede old city

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, June 15, 2007

Guidelines prepared for rebuilding Kotagede old city

Sri Wahyuni, The Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta

The Jogja Heritage Society is preparing a set of guidelines for the rebuilding of Yogyakarta's Kotagede old city, which was devastated in the powerful earthquake that struck the area last May 27.

During a seminar held here Wednesday, the heritage society discussed the planned revitalization of the Kotagede Heritage District, which houses in its narrow streets silverworks, traditional buildings and other cultural treasures of the city.

One of the steps the heritage community plans is to issue conservation manuals to home and building owners in the district.

"This is a crucial time for Kotagede. Unless something is done, it is feared the city's heritage will vanish forever," heritage society director Titi Handayani told The Jakarta Post.

The earthquake that rocked Yogyakarta and parts of Central Java last year damaged or destroyed most of the buildings in Kotagede, including many of the traditional joglo-roofed houses.

Titi said a recent survey by the heritage society found more than 100 joglo buildings, each of which originally functioned as the front hall of a housing compound, suffered extensive damage in the quake.

"That figure is only from Jagalan, one of three villages in the district," said Titi.

She said the other two villages were Prenggan and Purbayan. Jagalan is under the jurisdiction of Banguntapan district in Bantul regency, while Prenggan and Purbayan are in Kotagede district in Yogyakarta municipality.

Titi said one of the problems faced in rebuilding the heritage district was, ironically, the compensation funds given by the government to the owners of damaged houses.

Owners of heavily damaged or destroyed houses receive Rp 15 million (US$1,650) to Rp 20 million in assistance from the government.

This level of funding, Titi said, is insufficient to rebuild heritage homes properly.

She said in one case a former pendopo, a large open structure in front of a traditional joglo-roofed home, was simply turned into a bathroom.

Titi said some owners were selling teakwood joglo roofs more than 100 years old for as little as Rp 40 million, and then using the money to build modern houses.

"With the new guidelines we are preparing, hopefully, homeowners will have a guide that will help them reconstruct or renovate their houses."

Another heritage society member, Laretna Adishakti, said to make the guidelines effective a binding regulation was needed.

"But only the respective local governments can pass necessary regulations," said Laretna.

She reminded authorities that Kotagede was announced earlier this month by the World Monuments Fund as one of the 100 most endangered heritage sites in the world.

To help save Kotagede, Titi said, the heritage society had introduced two programs: "foster parents" and heritage investment.

Through the "foster parent" programs, individual or group donors are encouraged to help rebuild damaged joglo houses.

The heritage investment program encourages investors to preserve traditional buildings and turn them into commercial sites such as hotels, restaurants and boutiques.

"We are currently rebuilding four joglo houses with funding from the Netherlands government," said Titi.

The guidelines for preserving houses in Kotagede, she said, were drawn up with funding by the Saudi Arabia government, through the UNESCO office in Jakarta.

She said the guidelines were drawn up only after a host of field studies and workshops involving the community were held.

"We plan to launch the guidelines by the end of July," Titi said.