The project started Sept. 2002. The project is planned to  be ended in 2004. This site will continuously be updated.

Project idea          (Link to the complete project evaluation)                    

The project deals with culture in its various forms in Java and Sweden.
The title Ndolalak and Hambo refers to the names of two dances that may symbolize culture life in the two countries.
Our students in Bollnäs, Madania, and Purworejo will work with studies on the main elements of our cultures:

• everyday life and customs (how we live (how we build houses and plan our towns), what we eat, how young students think and plan for their future, how our schools are organized and work)

• religious traditions and ceremonies

• craft (especially wooden and textile crafts)

• tourism (folk-art, folk-music, folk-dancing, interesting places..)

•regional literature (especially tales and poems brought from one generation to another by oral tradition).

The good things: We have got contact with people from very different cultures. In spite of technical difficulties we have managed to communicate with each other and the project is still in progress.
During the Conference in Bogor all the involved teachers had a chance to meet and make plans for the future work
After the Conference in Bogor, the Swedish teachers went to Purworejo to visit the partner school there and meet the other teachers and students. This meant a lot for the rest of the work with the project.
Hopefully our contacts will not end with the project. We hope to continue the contacts and we hope to be able to have some kind of student exchange, even if it is expensive.

Problems: The discontinuity due to the graduating Swedish students. But hopefully the new students will make a great job.
The Indonesian students in Purworejo have problems with the lack of computers and e-mail of their own.
The students at Madania school are much younger than the Swedish students. This made us cancel the planning of a Indonesian visit to Sweden spring 2004 due to the problem to find host families. We hope to make new plans for exchanges at the Conference in Germany and we hope that the Indonesian teachers are able to visit Sweden.
The different holidays for the students also have been a problem. The Swedish students have long summer holiday and Christmas holiday and the Indonesian students have Ramadan holiday.

PS.
The red colour is the Indonesian colour: It is in the flag and it also symbolizes the warm climate and the warm Indonesian character.

The blue colour is the Swedish colour. It is in the flag and it also symbolizes the cold climate and the more reserved Swedish character.