Jember Fashion Carnival

Jember & Watu Ulo Beach

Point of interests in Jember, are as Watu Ulo Beach. By God’s will theybecome stone’s and visitor could still observe the “Snake Stone” about 33 km South from Jember. A walk along the white sands of Pampuma Beach is a pleasant activity. It has calm waves and is suitable for jet skiing, parasailing, fishing and sunbathing. Cerutu Tour, since Dutch occupation, Jember was well known with tobacco, cigar’s materials. Now the tobacco industry has developed an interesting and nostalgic agrotour, besides other plantation tours of Jember, visitors could enjoy a tobacco walk and handmade cigarprocessing. Gunung Gambir Tea Tour, 1,100 m above sea level is the tea plantation of Gunung Gambir of Sumberbaru. Visitors could do tea walk and some tasting and witness the processing of what’s known as Bir Tea.

Jember Fashion Carnival

The World's Longest Catwalk is Jember Fashion Carnival (JFC) in Jember Regency, East Java Province.Exactly in 2003, the first JFC began to show the city of Jember to the world’s fashion spotlight. After a decade of persistent efforts, with a full financial support from the local sponsors, organization and the community, the carnival has come to a level of global attention and vivid excitement. Previously, the longest outdoor catwalk was only a mile long in Copenhagen. Recently hailed as the world’s longest catwalk set up on a staggering 3.6-kilometer street at the city’s central park, JFC attracted some 500 registered photographers and hundreds of unregistered ones from around the nation and overseas. Around 600 participants, mostly students from around the city, were strikingly put into marvelous costumes. Instantly, this third largest city in East Java became exceedingly Lively, bringing joyous moments to the entire residents and local businesses.

With ten different costume themes from the past nine bests and butterflies theme in this particular carnival, in addition to the creativity of the people, the runway was amazing. Spectators did not mind the scorching sun as the event was commenced in the afternoon. The carefully planned spectators’ fences on the road sides finally failed preventing the curious residents and amateur photographers from getting so close to the models. This highly spirited moment with extraordinary enthusiasm is predicted to be another thriving success.