Hi Guys,

For all you guys living in indonesia please be careful when you are hanging out in jakarta or in places where alot of foreign people are around christmas time.

There has just been a travel warning in australia telling all australians not to go to indonesia for non essential travel. I remember the Australian embassy it was only indonesians that died because of other stupid indonesians.

Please be careful OK. I want to see everyone posting in 2005 !

and for the guys that celebrate ..... wishing you an early Merry christmas

Merry Christmas! r u goin anywhere this yuletide?

about the travel warning, Australian DFAT always issue these warnings every Christmas, Easter, Ramadhan, 17 August, etc every year. This latest warning is nothing unexpected, so its kinda hv no impact here in indonesia. Thank for the concern, though.. Myself, im going to a mountain-top Catholic monastery in Puncak area for Christmas nite..

Are you catholic?

Merry christmas!!!
i went to taman anggrek yesterday and im feelin the christmas vibe already.i can see quite a number or foreigners there.i hope they enjoy their stay though.i always love TA's huge christmas tree and other ornaments.I should go to the church for christmas but i guess im sorta lazy considering the amount of ppl goin.i know i shouldnt be thinkin this way.LOL

chrsitmas is the best holidays!!!

Even on other days, we should be careful too. We don't know when will those terrorist ,who calls themselves hero, will strike.
Any special thing u expect this christmas?

Merry Christmas,

Question, do Catholics in Indonesia also do the Misa de Galo?

Whoever celebrate christmas here, my hope they will have great happiness with their friend and family.

i don't celebrate Christmas, but i'm wishing anyone who celebrate their Chirstmas in all the joy and happiness....
no best wishes to ppl who wants to destroy other ppl's happiness. Shall them pay for they've done.

Merry X-mas to everyone who celebrate it.

i'm christian dont celebrate it but to those who do merry christmas, hannukah, kwanzaa, whatever. and happy new year.

Feliz Navidad!

Fil-Am,
I'm not catholic. im a christian.so I dont really know about that LOL

Um catholics are christian too, were one in the same .

maligaya ang pasko or merry christmas or feliz navidad.

So your christian don't celebrate it? what kind of christian sect you practiced. I thought both catholic and christian celebrate christmast. I don't know?

He's not Catholic, he's iglesssia christos or something. Sorry forgot the exact name. And FYI Catholics are christian. And yes Catholics do celebrate Christmas.
As you can see we go to mass in the middle of the night during Christmas Eve.

^ It's the first time I heard about "iglesssia christos".
I even heard about zoroaster, achmadyah, bahai. Never heard about iglesssia christos.
Is this religion practiced by philipino or it is somthing he got it bcoz he is living in US if i am not mistaken.

LOL I think its ignatio, instead of iglessi, its like an Christian denomination. Its practiced worldwide and some in the Philippines. The Philippines is 90% Christian and like 80% Catholic.

^ OIC, that's why i could not find it in google.

I didn't know the Iglesias don't celebrate Christmas?

Okay I was wrong it does come from the Philippines.
But not all filipinos follow it. Like I said before most filipinos are catholic.
http://www.examineiglesianicristo.com/

^ thats what flipcombatmedic said, that they don't celebrate christmas.

Best wishes for all of u who celebrates christmas!!

i thought catholics pray to virgin mary and not to Jesus like us.
is it Fil-Am?

Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru 2005 !!!!

2 I don't celebrate X'mas, but i still enjoy it nonetheless ( who doesn't enjoy a holiday ? )

Yes the virgin mary is an big part of catholicism. But we still pray to Jesus to.
Were still christians like you, in fact catholics were the first christians. Who introduced christianity to indonesia?

BTW do Indonesian christians have christmas songs, I can share with you some filipino christmas songs if you like.

Jesus is one of the main icons in Catholicism.

i see now
yeah there are a lot of christmas songs here but i dont now the titles, lyrics or how to sing them.LOL

U can start first

Tagalog Christmas Songs

Tagalog Christmas songs
basically reflect the joyful spirit
of Christmas in the Philippines.
There are, however, some
songs that reflect the loneliness
of the season especially for
those whose love ones are
far away or who have been
separated.




1. Pasko Na Naman
2. Pasko Na Sinta Ko
3. Kay Sigla ng Gabi
4. Sino si Santa Klaus?


Pasko Na Naman

Pasko na naman, o kay tulin ng araw.
Paskong nagdaan, tila ba kung kelan lang.
Ngayon ay Pasko, dapat pasalamatan.
Ngayon ay Pasko, tayo ay mag-awitan.
Pasko, Pasko, Pasko na namang muli,
Pasko, Pasko, Pasko na namang muli!
Ang pag-ibig naghahari!


Pasko na Sinta Ko

Pasko na sinta ko
Hanap-hanap kita
Bakit nagtatampo't
Nilisan ako

Kung mawawala ka,
Sa piling ko sinta,
Paano ang Pasko
Inulila mo?

Sayang sinta,
Ang sinumpaan
At pagtitinginan tunay.
Nais mo bang kalimutang ganap
Ang ating suyuan at galak?

Kung mawawala ka,
Sa piling ko sinta,
Paano ang Paskong
Alay ko sa iyo?


Kay Sigla ng Gabi

Kay sigla ng gabi, ang lahat ay kay saya!
Nagluto ang Ate ng manok na tinola,
Sa bahay ng Kuya ay mayroong litsonan pa!
Ang lahat ay may handang iba't-iba.

Tayo na giliw, magsalo na tayo!
Meron na tayong tinapay at keso.
Di ba Noche Buena sa gabing ito,
At bukas ay araw ng Pasko!


Sino si Santa Klaus?

Sino si Santa Klaus?
Ang tanong sa 'kin,
Ng anak kong bunso
Na naglalambing.

you could as well add the translation so that i can understand too

damn i really dont know any christmas song! myabe just

Selamat hari natal ,selamat hari natal ,selamat hari natal
Dan tahun baru.
(we wish you a merry christmas song)

i should have known better

Selamat Hari Natal......
semoga damai selalu

Malam Kudus ( The Holy Night ) is a popular X-mas song..

Please pardon my crappy indo :

kemaren malam aku ketemu sama sodara yang kerjanya di parliment australi.

Dia salasatu ambassador indonesia.
Critanya gini, australi mustinya rapat sama indonesia representative sebelum warning begini tuh di issue. Rapatnya udah, tapi di agree kalo emang threat di indo itu benar ato ngak belum di agree sama indo reps.

Tapi Australi to udah update websitenya dia and media jadi frenzy, jadi terpaksa minister foreign oz kasih speech yang bilang berbahaya ke indonesia karana website udah di update.

Warning nya juga untuk seluruh indonesia, kan ngak benar mustinya kalo ada informasi specific dia musti kasih daerah yang berbahaya.

Anyway thats the story, i guess it was a bit of a shambles and that this travel warning was released abit early but it simply goes to show how STRONG of an impact the media can have on this situation.

Although I'm not a Christian nor Catholic but I do know some XMas songs

Selamat Hari Natal, Selamat hari Natal, Selamat hari Natal dan Tahun Baru!
We wish u a merry christmas, We wish u a merry christmas, We wish u a merry christmas, and a Happy New Year!

Malam Kudus, Sunyi Senyap ------ Silent Night, Holy Night. Actually it means holy night, silent night but it's the song.

So again, what make the Aussie always release travel warning to Indonesia? in every year and if there is every big moment in Indonesia?
Is this related to Insurance purposes (want to deny the claim if something happened) or they want to keep thier money circulated within Austarlie bcoz a lot Aussie visit Indonesia every year.

Aussies are quite paranoid , Nusantra. They always think that indonesia and the Philippinea re EXTREMELY dangerous places. LOL

That's what I thought. I guess also they want their citizen spend money within in their own country. So give travel warning it will deter people travel outside.
In other way the terorist have already achieve their purposes to give paranoid situation to Aussie.

LOL. I wonder why "other countries" think it's EXTREMELY dangerous in SEAsia, when in fact the 9/11 attacks was ..uhm you know. You know what I mean. Why uplift travel warnings here when the 9/11 attacks was on heck of an attack. Discrimination? LOL.

I'm not sure, but I think no travel warning against the US was issues, but when the Phils and Indonesia were attacked, they instantly gave out travel warnings. Grr.

I'm a Catholic, Fil-Am. Merry Xmas to you too. About Misa, we have midnight mass only on Christmas Eve and morning mass on Dec 25 at five and eight in the morning.

To Magyu, 3 weeks ago I went to PLaza Indonesia and I felt Christmas everywhere. Cool!

As far as I know Saint Fransiscus Xaverius was the first one introduced christianity to indo. My baptist name is Fransisca, taken from St. Fransiscus Xaverius.



Our christmas songs are mostly translated from english christmas songs. I think I have one original indo xmas song but I can't recall it. I also love Latin Xmas songs.

im living in a small town in the states....
i guess TA has more xmas vibe than this small town XD

You mean like Feliz Navidad?

Is Saint Fransiscus Xaverius, spanish?



Cool, thats basically the same thing we do here in the US. Since they don't do Misa de Galo here in the States?

Feliz Navidad is good, but I like this song the most but I forgot the title..."Bona voluntatis..bona voluntatis...et intera pax...Gloria, gloria..et intera pax hominibus hox verbum quam vantum et.." yeah something like that. Gosh, I'm the choir girl and was supposed to sing this song last xmas but I forgot the title!!

I think St. Fransiscus Xaverius is portuguese (I must re-open my history book )