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Two interesting places will be visited during post-conference tour, as follows.

Ambarawa Railway Museum is a museum located in Ambarawa, 30 km away from Semarang. The museum focuses on the collection of steam locomotives, the remains of the closing of the 3 ft 6 in (1067mm) railway line. This museum formerly was a station (the Willem I Railway Station) that was originally a trans-shipment point between the 4ft 8½in (1435 mm) gauge branch from Kedungjati to the northeast and the 3ft 6in (1067 mm) gauge line onward towards Yogyakarta via Magelang to the South. It is still possible to see that the two sides of the station were built to accommodate different size trains. The museum collected 21 steam locomotives. Currently four locomotives are operational. Other collections of the museum include old telephones, morse telegraph equipments, old bells and signals equipments, and some antique furnitures.


Borobudur Temple is a ninth-century Buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The temple comprises six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorates with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. A main dome, located at the center of the top platform, is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues seated inside perforated stupa. Approximately 90 kilometers Southeast of Semarang, Borobudur is located in an elevated area between two twin volcanoes, Sundoro - Sumbing and Merbabu - Merapi, and two rivers, the Progo and the Elo. According to local myth, the area known as Kedu Plain is a Javanese 'sacred' place and has been dubbed 'the garden of Java' due to its high agricultural fertility.



 

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