16/03/13

Article of Jelok in English

 Enjoyment Traveled on Rural Tourism Jelok

Village Tourism Jelok, you will be spoiled by the village atmosphere with friendly and welcoming people. You can be adventurous, farming, learning even dinner on the river Oya.
Jelok hamlet, village of Beji, Patuk Gunungkidul, supposedly isolated as road access is very difficult to cross the river 80 meters wide Oya. To attend, students crossing times with gethek made ​​of bamboo. In 1996, the bridge was built on community and student inisiatis.
82 meter long bridge with a width of one meter could become the only way to Jelok, which from 2010 known as the Tourism Village

Since then, Jelok becoming known as community-based rural tourism, culture and environment. Tourism in the village area of ​​75 hectares is divided into adventure tourism, the white water rafting, fishing, biking, camping, outbound. Tourism education, reading in the library, painting, drawing, farm oragnik, making biogas, compost and charcoal. While cultural attractions, such as performances of traditional art.
The most attractive tourist village located 30 kilometers from the city of Yogyakarta is friendly and welcoming people. You can spend the night in homes, rustic dishes from the experience learned from the organic fields with a very low cost, Rp 50,000 per night for 4 people. Eight tourist guides were very friendly, they will be facilitating type you choose.
in Jelok you can not only have fun, but get an amazing experience. Beginning in late June 2012, dinner on the river can be enjoyed. Just like in other parts of Europe, dinner on a floating bamboo gethek time oya is growing steadily, entertained the music and song macapat on a sampan. Dinner is usually held in the afternoon after the visitors tired outbound. 
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Jelok Tourism Village, Going Back to Bounded Solidarity


About
Jelok Village was an isolated area because of the difficult access road. To reach this village was not easy since people had to cross Oyo River that was about 80 meters in width, by rafts made of bamboo, as long as the stream flowed friendly. However, around 1996, there was students from UNY (Yogjakarta State University) who did their community service in this village. With the locals, they started to build a bridge that could facilitate the access to this village.
With the principle of cooperation and solidarity, locals with students became the key of the growing village. Unfortunately, the earthquake in May 2006 that shook Yogyakarta became the beginning of locals’ disharmony. It happened because the unequal distribution of government subsidies to the victims of the eartquake in this village. But there was a Wonosari-born young man who concerned about this condition. He was Aziz, one of UNY students who also did his community service there. For the first time, he was suspected of what he did as he was not one of the locals. Slowly, this young man, by involving some young people from this village, tried to get back people’s trust and started to build again the solidarity spirit that was almost gone.

They built a hut on the government’s property as a place where people could hang out or chitchat so they could strengthen their solidarity between the locals. Nowadays, this hut is till there and used as a study hall or as a hang out place in the night time.
This was the place where the idea of creating a tourism village was initiated. This brilliant idea which came from locals lively chat was proposed to increase locals’ quality of life but without ignoring to keep the local culture and values and also to preserve the beautiful environment. Jelok Village that is located in Beji, Patuk, Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta with 75 hectares wide, in 2010, held a festival and merti (a locals tradition or ritual) of Oyo River. There were some activities that was aimed to unite the locals to help each other and to pray together in the Oyo River. Because of that moment of festival, this village was started to be well-known. This potential has made Jelok as one of tourism villages in 2010 based on locals traditions and cultures and also the neighborhood.

Location
Jelok Tourism is located in Jelok Sub-village, Beji Village, Patuk Sub-district, Regency of Gunung Kidul. It is precisely at Wonosari Street Km 25. It is about 30 kilometers away from the southeast of Yogyakarta, or 15 kilometers from the west of Wonosari, Gunung Kidul.

What to Do     
There are few kinds of tourism that visitors can enjoy in Jelok, such as adventure tourism by rafting in Oyo river, fishing, riding a bike, camping, and having outbond. There is also an education tourism, such as library, painting, drawing, organic farming, making biogas, making compost, and also making charcoal. For the traditions or cultures for tourism, you can also see merti kali (locals tradition and ritual held along the river), jathilan (locals traditional dance), and mocopat (Javanese traditional poem).

Admission Fee & Visitor’s Info
Visiting Jelok Tourism Village does not require any entrance ticket. However, since you are here to get new experience, you are suggested to bring enough money to take some tourism packages. To experience the hospitality and the intimacy of the locals, you can also stay in the residents’ home by only paying Rp 50.000,- per night for 4 people. You can taste their foods that come from ingredients planted in their organic farm. There are 8 tour guides to guide you to do several activities and adventure in this village. One special thing you can get from this village is that the experience of dinner on the river. Like what European do, having dinner on the bamboo raft, accompanied by music and mocopat songs.

How to Get There
  • By taking public transportation, take the bus with route of Yogyakarta-Wonosari, stop at Putat village, near the Putat circuit, and then take the bike taxi. It is 2 kilometers from Putat village.
  • By taking private vehicles, two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicles
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