Solo City

Solo Restaurant

Ayam Goreng Kleco
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street
Phone: (0271) 717819

Oriental
Pujasari SW Complex
Phone: (0271) 771508

Padang Bundo
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 279
Phone: (0271) 712479

Wong Solo
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 299
Phone: (0271) 713931

Kentucky Fried Chicken
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 310
Phone: (0271) 722104

Mc. Donald Restaurant
Dr. Rajiman Street 35
Phone: (0271) 630100

Soto Gading 2
Veteran Street 285

California Fried Chicken Restaurant
Dr. Rajiman Street 27
Phone: (0271) 661490

Manna Fast Food
Urip Sumoharjo Street 107
Phone: (0271) 646041

Kartika Sari
Arifin Street 16
Phone: (0271) 633036

Kusuma Sari II
Kalimasodo Street 3
Phone: (0271) 656406

Sari bundo R.M Padang
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 43
Phone: (0271) 651211

Semanggi
Kyai mojo Street 90
Phone: (0271) 643521

Waroeng Steak WS
Dr. Rajiman Street 261
Phone: (0271) 632935

Adem Ayem
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 342
Phone: (0271) 712891

Sari R.M
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 421
Phone: (0271) 719317

Ayam Bakar Malioboro
Diponegoro Street 14
Phone: (0271) 635914

Ayam Goreng Madukoro
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 400
Phone: (0271) 665080

Minang Raya R.M Padang
Mongisidi Street 108
Phone: (0271) 663442

Pandan Sari R.M
S. Parman Street 47
Phone: (0271) 646819

Arum Manis
Ir. Sutami Street 130
Phone: (0271) 641775

Ayam Goreng Widuran
St. Syahrir Street 71
Phone: (0271) 637661

Ice Cream Tentrem
Urip Sumoharjo Street 97
Phone: (0271) 635597

New Alang - Alang Cafe
Gajahan Street 7
Phone: (0271) 654842

Diamond
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 319
Phone: (0271) 715007

Boga
Museum Street 1
Phone: (0271) 714963

Golden
Urip Sumoharjo Street

Bima
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 120
Phone: (0271) 653034

Andalas R.M
Ronggowasito Street 111
Phone: (0271) 644361

Atria Cafe & Restaurant
Kartini Street 33 Timuran
Phone: (0271) 642477

Timlo Solo
Urip Sumoharjo Street 94

Sriwijaya
Yosodipuro Street 75
Phone: (0271) 710525

Pizza Hut Restaurant
Brigjend Slamet Riyadi Street 380
Phone: (0271) 721577

Solo City / Surakarta Tourism Map

Rokok Kretek: The Culture and Heritage of Indonesia's Clove Cigarettes

Rokok is cigarettes, kretek is clove flavored, so rokok kretek means clove flavored cigarettes or clove cigarettes. For many millions Javanese and Indonesians, kretek is enjoyable companion, tasteful, it gives a feeling of relief & relaxation and its price is nothing compare to the comfort given.

Clove tree In restaurants, pubs, bars, discotheques, public buildings and in many other places outdoor, the sweet smoke from kretek are smelt. This is a common sight, but nowadays, many sites are divided to smoking and non smoking areas. Some air conditioned buildings even declared as non smoking.

Brief history
Rokok kretek was invented by a man from the town of Kudus, 50 km eastward of Semarang in the early nineties AD. The man Noto Semito was from a long time suffering from cough and asthma. Desperate to cure his illness, he rolled tobacco mix with crushed cloves in dried corn leaves - this is the original kretek cigarettes.

The rokok klobot (klobot is dried corn leaves). After smoking these kretek he was cured and become healthier. He began to manufacture his new kretek cigarettes with trade mark of BAL TIGA (three balls). He actively marketed the kretek every where, through radio, touring vans with music and dancers, even by air dropping promotion leaflets.

He become a very successful business man, a billionaire. His steps was followed by many others and soon kretek industry was mushrooming also in other cities. The fate of Noto Semito, The Father of Kretek, ended tragically, he was bankrupt in 1953, crashed by his invented kretek vast industry.

The Present Day
The kretek follows 'modernization' in cigarettes industry. The new filter kretek are major products, the contents of crushed cloves are smaller, changed with clove essence. The crushed cloves are kept to maintain the voice of burning kretek - crakling : tek, tek, tek, from here comes the name of kretek.

The leaders of kretek nowadays are Djambu Bol, Sukun, Nojorono, Djarum (in Kudus and Central Java), Bentoel (in Malang), Gudang Garam (in Kediri) and Sampoerna (in Surabaya). There are also smaller manufacturers, such as Menara (in Solo), Pompa (in Semarang), etc. More than 95% of local smokers prefer kretek than rokok putih or white cigarettes - non clove cigarettes.

No one denies that kretek industry brings a huge sum of tax to the state purse and millions of people depend their income to this chains of business, starting from the tobacco and clove farmers, workers at the factories, sellers in many shops and stalls, truckers, involved in this industry and it's worth to note - their families.

Tobacco Connoisseur
The kretek factories absorb a lot of tabacco. The buyers - mainly the kretek producers, they hire several connoisseurs, experts of tobacco, to secure the quality of their products. They are very well paid. No doubt of their specific expertise. Only by smelling the wet tobacco leaves or dried cut tobacco leaves, high qualified connoisseur should know precisely the origin of the tobacco. It is from Wonosobo , Magelang or Boyolali (Central java) or from Besuki (East Java), and knows the harvest year of every tobacco tested. The testing is important as prices differs from region to region.

Where to Buy
Most tobacco stores carry clove cigarettes. Try the local mall, Some convenience stores carry them, but not the major chains. You will have much better luck finding clove cigarettes at family-owned and operated convenience stores, especially stores owned by recent immigrants to the United States (since they tend to have more knowledge of clove cigarettes). But due to the high taxes of cigarettes people like to look for altervative sources. The best place to get your clove cigarettes without have to pay these high taxes is the internet. You can search the internet and you will find lots of websites selling clove cigarettes. One of the most trusted website that sells clove cigarettes is myKretek.com - The Original Indonesian Clove Cigarettes Online Store .With a long history in the clove cigarettes business and over 6 years of online experience, myKretek.com not only offers genuine products at competitive prices they also guarantee that all of their products are freshly supplied to the customers for their full satisfaction.

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Gamelan Music

Almost every where in Solo and other cities in Central Java, in Keraton, in the market, in the villages, in the hotel's lobby, you should hear the magical melodious percussion music - the gamelan Javanese orchestra.

In his book 'music of Java' Jaap Kunst says, "Gamelan is comparable to only two things, moonlight and flowing water. ...mysterious like moonlight and always changing like flowing water...".

Gamelan music is an integral part of all cultural activities in Java such as wayang kulit (leather puppets) performance, court dance, uyon-uyon (symphony orchestra performance), etc. There are two kinds of laras (tuning) in gamelan, namel slendro (comparable to minor key in Western music) and Pelog (major key). A complete set of gamelan consist of two sets of different instruments of Slendro and Pelog, such as :

1. Kendang (double ended drum beaten by hands)
It is a leading instrument. The pengendang (drummer) is the conductor of the gamelan orchestra. There are five (5) different sizes of kendang from 20 cm to 45 cm.

2. Saron
A glockenspiel with bronze bar struck with wooden mallet. There are three kinds; Saron Barung, Saron Peking, Saron Demung.

3. Bonang Barung
A double row of bronze kettles resting on a horizontal frame, played with two long stick bound with red cord at the striking end.

4. Bonang Penerus
Plays an octave higher than the bonang barung. It usually plays a fast melodic strain based on that played by the bonang barung. In some pieces, both bonang play a fast interlocking pattern called imbal

5. Slentem
Thin bronze bars suspended over bamboo resonating chambers, struck with a padded disc on the end of a stick.

6. Gender
Similar to slentem with more bronze keys and smaller bamboo chamber, struck with two disc-shaped hammers.

7. Gambang
Wooden bars laid over a wooden frame struck with two sticks of supple buffalo horn, ending with a small, round, padded disc.

8. Gong
Each slendro and pelog set had three gongs. Two big gongs (Gong Ageng) and one gong Suwukan about 90 cm, made from bronze, suspended on a wooden frame. It marks the end of the largest phrase of the melody.

9. Kempul
Smaller gongs, marks a smaller phrase. In each slendro and pelog set, there are 6 (six) or 10 (ten) kempuls

10. Kenong
Smaller gongs lay horizontally on crossed cord, inside a wooden frame. A complete set of kenong in each slendro and pelog consist of 10 (ten) kenongs.

11. Ketug
The kenong player also plays it smaller kenong, marks subdivisions of phrases.

12. Clempung
A string instrument, each slendro and pelog set needs one clempung.

13. Siter
Smaller cemplung, each slendro and pelog set needs one siter

14. Suling
It is a flute, each slendro and pelog set, needs one suling.

15. Rebab
A two stringed viol, the same as slendro and pelog.

16. Keprak and Kepyak
Needed for gamelan to accompany dances.

17. Bedug
It is a very big drum.

The bars of the gamelan instruments can be made either from iron, copper or bronze. The bronze bars are the best choice. All the gamelan players are sitting cross-legged on a mat during a performance.

In a gamelan music concert or karawitan performance, the Kendang player or pengendang conducts the Tempo, while the melody is led by the bonang player. The gamelan orchestra includes some singers (Pesinden), female as well as male. There are some very famous Pesindens, their names are almost known by everybody in this region.

Some believe that in the ancient time, the first set of gamelan, by the name of Lokananta was created by gods and played in Mount Lawu, Eastward of Solo.

In short the history of gamelan was as follow:
The first gamelan was the three-toned Munggang, then the five-toned slendro gamelan and the last: the seven-toned pelog gamelan.

Patet :
In the laras slendro, there are:
* Slendro patet nem
* Slendro patet sanga
* Slendro patet manyura

In the laras pelog, there are:
* Pelog patet lima
* Pelog patet nem
* Pelog patet barong

Patet is a place to lay the gending or to establish the gending. In the wayang kulit (shadow puppet) whole night show, the gamelan plays,
Slendro patet nem from 9.00-12.00 p.m.
Slendro patet sanga from 00.00-03.00 a.m.
Slendro patet manyura from 03.00-06.00 a.m.

For an experienced gamelan player it should not difficult to determine the patet of a particular music. Or it can be said that patet is used to create mood, with the gamelan accompaniment. It is already known that various gamelan tunes are played to create different atmosphere of the situation or feeling such as joy, sorrow, anger etc.

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