Surabaya

Surabaya is the second largest city in Indonesia. Located on the north-eastern shore of east Java, it is the capital city of East Java. Surabaya is famous for its swell cuisines and rich culture.
It is also known as the hero city for it was the place where historical grand battle of the Indonesian people maintaining their freedom from the ambush of the west colony. From that historical event, the people of Surabaya have been well known as generally brave people with flaming spirit.

Nowadays, Surabaya has been a metropolitan city as it has a lot of modern infrastructures and a great deal of shopping centers and hotels or apartments. Its population has grown into an approximate number of 3 millions people. It has also become one of the biggest cities in south east Asia.

Lately, Surabaya had succeeded in hosting the longest bridge in south east Asia, the Suramadu bridge (along with bangkalan, Madura) which connect the island of Java and Madura. This is expected to also bridge the economical growth between the two islands. Not only that, as mentioned before, shopping centers are found along almost every main street in Surabaya. It is also the host of the eastern armada; so proud with its maritime power that Surabaya has a monument of Jales viva jaya mahe and a submarine monument. Two mosques also might become a point of interest of Surabaya. The great mosque with its calm persona and the cheng hoo with its uniquely oriental design. The museum of Mpu Tantular could be a very interesting stop for history hunter as well as the Surabaya zoo to the animal lovers and youngsters. The heroic monument is also built here to symbolize the bravery of the people of Surabaya in fighting for their nation. Wants a refreshing moment? Try Kenjeran beach, an exotic beach in the east of the city.

Surabaya is a multi-ethnic city. But here in Surabaya, you will commonly hear the people talking in a unique dialect of Javanese called the Suroboyoan language. It is very straightforward as it has been noted for the equality. Most people here earn money from retailing. Shops are scattered all over the town. The young people of Surabaya are probably very happy to live here as it has numerous of excellent schools and colleges, hanging out places, and good friends. Surabaya even host a very popular young convention such as DBL basketball competition cooperating with NBA and Deteksi convention for the young people.


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Hey there! We're the delegations from Surabaya to Busan of this year! After tight selection held by the government of Surabaya, we are having the honor to be sent to Busan in order to participate in the cross cultural program and international youth forum (that will be held in Busan, South Korea, on 4th until 6th of august, 2009) as a national mission. FYI, Surabaya is one of the metropolitan cities in Indonesia. We'll tell you a lot about Surabaya later :) There are six students who excels at various subjects, but the most important thing is that, we put a huuuuge interest towards the country of South Korea that we're very very glad to have a chance to visit it :)) We're building this site to keep you in touch of what's new from our team. This site is dedicated to the people of Surabaya and Busan. Last leastly, we realize that we're not perfect, so we're counting on your participation for the sake of the development towards our team. Enjoy! waiting for your feedbacks :D