In conjunction with International Museum Day 2012, museums in Jakarta gather at Kawasan Kota Tua for Jakarta Museum Day Festival 2012.

43 out of 50 museums in Jakarta participate in this event and have their exhibition booth at the location. Many people come to see each museum booth and interact with the staff.  (more…)

December 2011, we got a chance to visit Bangka Island for a short 3 days trip. Unfortunately, weather condition at December was really frustrating to go out hunting some nice scenery.

Got a compliment to stay at Parai Beach Resort, one of the best resort in the Island! Despite the unfriendly weather condition, we managed to go around the island and took pictures at some tourism spots the island got to offer.

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Last night we went to The 3 House Bistro & Lounge to attend Wego Party, a party to celebrate the new website of Wego Indonesia using completely Bahasa Indonesia. A lot of travelers, travel bloggers, and many others show up at the party.

Wego Indonesia Community Manager, Achmad Alkatiri, came to us a couple of days before the event, asking whether is it possible to create a VR360° of the event. What kind of question was that? It was very unlikely that we would say impossible! Other than the VR360°, we also took some pictures of the event. (more…)

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This year, we will be shooting museums in Indonesia.

The long run goal of this project is to have an online website with simple information and attractive 360° virtual tour of museums in Indonesia. This way, everybody will have a “virtual access” to every single museum in Indonesia! Thus, in the end, everybody will realize that Indonesia has a lot of beautiful museums to be proud of! Not to mention the historical & cultural information we might get from the museums when we actually visit the museum.

Click on each respective logos at the end of this post and you’ll be redirected to its 360° virtual tour.

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PictFest 2011 is an event organized by salingsilang.com in conjunction with kufoto.com and fX LifeStyle X’enter, starting December 9th to December 10th (that is today!).

PictFest is all about photography and also social media…to find out more about the event (and also the schedule) you can go to their official website at www.pictfest.com. (more…)

Last month, idVR360 got a great opportunity to travel to Lombok Island for 12 days. Collaborating with www.indonesiavirtual.com, we are assigned to capture some VR360° at many possible tourism spots.

Once we’re back in Jakarta, we started processing the frames and end up with 89 VR360°. We will share some of them here, but  the rest of the VR360°s are available at our other online portfolio page at 360cities. (more…)

As part of Canon Photo Marathon Asia 2011, this event is one of the biggest photo competition event in Indonesia. Other participating countries are Singapore, India, Vietnam, and Malaysia.

Canon Photo Marathon Indonesia 2011 took place in Yogyakarta (September 24th) and Jakarta (October 1st), and we are attending the Jakarta event. Managed by PT Datascrip as an exclusive distributor of Canon camera products, claimed that more than 3000 photographer, both from Yogyakarta and Jakarta, participated in this event . Besides photo competition, there are also some photography workshops conducted by professional photographers in Indonesia. Winners of the photo competition will receive, of course, Canon cameras, and tickets to Photo Clinic to Tasmania, Australia.

During the event, we managed to shots some pole panoramas at the location, which is Ancol Eco Park. This place is amazingly huge, even with 2500+ participants wandering around to get their best shots for the competition, there are still many areas un-explored by them. Below is 10 panoramas (out of 18) that we took using a 9 feet pole to get a ‘different perspective’ of the event. (more…)

On Saturday, August 13th 2011, there was a great event held at Fine Arts Theater building at Jakarta International School complex. This year is JIS 60th anniversary year, and quoting from Ariz Azis closing speech, this is the first time JIS open up its door for such public event! (more…)

Cycling community is booming in Indonesia. At first, Pasar Sepeda was an offline event, held for the first time at JPG Mountain Bike Park, the largest mountain bike track in Indonesia, on January 3rd 2010.

After several offline events, the domain PasarSepeda.net was first introduced on February 6th 2011.

Now, during the final phase of the portal development, we are commissioned to take some 360° photos of a bike shop, plus and a bike track (part of JPG Mountain Bike Park) known as “Roller Coaster” to be showcased at Pasar Sepeda portal. (more…)

@america is a cultural center, own and managed by US Embassy Jakarta, and they claimed to be the first and most high-tech U.S. cultural center in the world!

Located at One Pacific Place, 3rd floor, the center open for public from 10am – 9pm, 7 days a week, and they have lots of event/seminars/discussion/workshops covering a wide range of topics. For those whom plans to continue their study in United States of America, can also meet & have discussions with advisers from EducationUSA and get more detailed information. (more…)