Pekalongan

Pekalongan (Dutch: Residentie Pekalongan) is a region of Central Java in Indonesia.

Cities

🌍 Batang — dense forestry regency
🌍 Brebes — shallot agriculture and salted duck egg industry
🌍 Kajen — the capital of Pekalongan Regency
🌍 Pekalongan — a Batik city has become a part of UNESCO Creative Cities
🌍 Pemalang — Comal river and pineapple agriculture
🌍 Slawi — the capital of Tegal Regency
🌍 Tegal — a lively north coast town with a strong colonial past

Talk

Pekalongan dialect Javanese language is used in Tegal (western part), Weleri (eastern part) and the Kendeng Mountains area (southern part).

Get in

By train

Some cities, Brebes, Tegal, Pemalang, Pekalongan, and Batang is served by train services from Indonesia's capital Jakarta or Central Java's capital Semarang.

Get around

By car

Cities are connected by good condition Great Post Road and Trans-Java Toll Road.

See

See Batik Museum in the city of Pekalongan.

Do

Take a hot bath in Guci natural hot spring in Tegal.

Eat

Warung Tegal (abbreviated as "Warteg"), a general term for middle to lower class food and beverage stalls on the side of the road in Indonesia. Most of them were managed by people from two villages in Tegal Regency back then.

Drink

As an area with a Muslim majority, it is very difficult to find alcohol drinks in the area. Try specialty tea drink teh poci (hot tea in claypot teapot with rock sugar) in Tegal.

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