Surabaya is a second metropolis city in Indonesia. It's thecapital city of East Java. Surabaya is a reference of East Indonesian Region in the field of industry, trade, education and also ocean. In Indonesian history, Surabaya has a big role in freedom struggle of Indonesia. Once upon a time, something that would be an unforgettable moment by this nation is the struggle of people in Surabaya known as the "10 Nopember 1945" incident. The well known spirit of "Rawe-rawe Rantas Malang-malang Putung" had driven the citizen of Surabaya to fight against the Ally troops which is intruded by NICA. This troops had a mission to take over Surabaya once again. In this incident, the ally general, Mallaby, was killed. They torn the blue color of Dutch's flag in the hotel and set it in the Yamato Hotel. Because of that incident, people of Surabaya or who has ever settled in Surabaya proudly being called "Arek Suroboyo". To memorize the spirit of people in Surabaya at the moment, built a monument called "TUGU PAHLAWAN" in the heart of Surabaya. This monument has been a symbol of Surabaya for years. Geographically, Surabaya locate on a tropical area. So, it can be easily visited through the air, the sea and also from the land transportation. It takes around 9 hours from Jakarta using railway train and 1 1/4 hour using plane. The East and North of Surabaya are directly facing the Madura Strain. They form coastal area along the beach. The Surabaya citizen is now around 2.941.820 people living in this city which is 90 people / Hectare dense, and grows around 1,749% /year. The citizen of Surabaya consists of a plural culture. The most are came from Javanese and Madurese. But these cultures have been living for years in peace. It's so, because of the people's characteristic is open mind. They prefer to say something they don't loke to others rather than keeping in their mind as a venge. Surabaya has been the center of industry for the area surrounding the city, extending to the East Indonesia. The regions, e.c. Tandes, Benowo, Asemrowo, Rungkut (PT. SIER), Gunung Anyar are the main industrial areas which consists of food, trade, chemical, cloth, etc. Surabaya is a maritim city which is well known since the Kingdom of Majapahit. At that moment trade activity concentrate in the Ujung Dock, which is now known as Tanjung Perak Harbor. As a second biggest harbor in Indonesia, many kinds of supporting industry such as shipment and workshop fascilities are built in the area. P.T. PAL as a repair shop and ship building has turned into a trend settler from many other similar commpany in Indonesia. Along with the progress of industrial sector, the economic rate of Surabaya growth rapidly. The growth is around 7,5 % per year. Many trades center can be found is Surabaya. Some of them are the Tunjungan Plaza, World Trade Centre (WTC), Tunjungan Centre, Surabaya Plaza, Jembatan Merah Plaza, Surabaya Mall dan Galaxy Mall. Hoe to Travel to Indonesia? You can fly directly to Indonesia from just about anywhere.People can travel from Europe and the US arrive on direct flights to Surabaya. But most traveling trips to Indonesia will arrive at Jakarta Airport or Denpasar Airport then we can travel by domestic flight to Juanda Airport in Surabaya. There are also non-stop flights from several Asian cities, including Singapore, Malaysia, and Hongkong. How to Get to Hotel From Airport? If you prefer to travel by yourself; When you arrive at Juanda (Surabaya) International Airport, you can go directrly to the Hotel. We recommend you to take a taxi for your convenience. There are many city taxi services within the city of Surabaya. Recommended taxi companies for transportation inside the city are "Blue Bird", "Silver Bird", all are from "Blue Bird Group" Taxi. Taxi rates (Argo meter) are estimated at Rp 3.000 for the starting KM plus Rp. 1300/1KM.

Surabaya is a multiple ethnic city enriches with many cultures. In Surabaya there are many kinds of ethnics, such as : Malay, Chinese, India , Arab, and Europe . Indonesian archipelago ethnics are also could be found, such as : Madura, Sunda, Batak, Kalimantan, Bali Sulawesi which mixed with native Surabaya citizen and establish cultural pluralism, hence, it become a special characteristic for surabaya . Most of surabaya citizen are original from Native Surabaya and Madura peoples Hence, it makes Surabaya being different with other city in Indonesia, then this special characteristic is really blending to coloring in this daily life. Associate with each other without any differences, open minded, critic and being critic is a daily lifestyle that could be found in here. More over, traditional art and special food define for surabaya cultural pluralism Bambu Runcing Monument Jenderal Soedirman Monument Mayangkara Monument Gubernur Soeryo Monument Tugu Pahlawan Monument Wira Surya Monument Kapal Selam Monument Bahari Monument Jalasveva Jayamahe Monument Perjuangan POLRI Monument Ronggolawe Monument Sura & Baya statue Joko Dolog statue Museum Loka Jaya Srana Museum Mpu Tantular Art living in Surabaya grew well. Traditional and modern art complete each other to create various Surabaya art. Traditional art grew because of the colonialism defense history that has been preserved nowadays. Traditional art is very various. there are dancing art, musical art and stage art. Ludruk, Gending Jula Juli Suroboyo, Remo dancing, Kentrung, Okol, Seni Ujung, Besutan, Loro Pangkon ceremony, Lenggang Suroboyo dance, and Hadrah dance. While modern art is also grew slightly, many dance studios focus in developing traditional and modern blended. Yet, many dance groups developed modern creation, such as Marlupi dance, gito Maran. In realizing art living in Surabaya, Surabaya Art Council (Dewan Kesenian Jakarta) and Musical, theatre, painting association create many efforts to increase it. Painting art exhibition and Theatre art are often held in Balai Pemuda. While, traditional dance art show always held in Taman Hiburan Rakyat (THR) and Taman Budaya. Surabaya Symphony Orchestra (SSO) is also have a role to make musical art grew well in Surabaya. Tari Remo Cak Dan Ning Surabaya Ludruk Tari Lenggang Surabaya Undukan Doro Tari Hadrah Jidor Penganten Pegon Musik Patrol Wayang Orang In every year, almost many various festival held in Surabaya. Festival celebration not only has been held by government, but also many organizations take a role in celebrating these festivals, such as Layang-layang festival,Surabaya's food festival, fisherman's boat festival, Panen Raya, and many more. Since a year ago, in July has been held Yosakai dance festival which comes from Kochi, Japan. This festival is a form of cooperation relationship Surabaya and Kochi, hence, it became routine agenda for Surabaya. Semanggi Surabaya Rujak Cingur Kupang Lontong Lontong Balap Jongkong Surabaya

The earliest record of Suyabaya was in a 1225 book written by Chau Ju-Kua, in which it was called Jungala[1], the ancient name of Surabaya. By early 15th century, Admiral Zheng He's Treasure ship visited Sulumayi. Ma Huan who accompanied Zheng He wrote in his 1433 book Ying-yai Sheng-lan : "after travelling south for more than twenty li, the ship riched Sulumayi, whose foreign name is Surabaya. At the estuary, the outflowing water is fresh"[2]. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Surabaya was a sultanate and a major political and military power in eastern Java. It entered a conflict with, and was later captured by, the more powerful Sultanate of Mataram in 1625 under Sultan Agung. It was one of Mataram's fiercest campaigns, in which they had to conquer Surabaya's allies, Sukadana and Madura and to lay siege to the city before capturing it. With this conquest, Mataram then controlled almost the whole of Java, with the exception of the Sultanate of Banten and the Dutch settlement of Batavia. The expanding East Indies Companies took the city over from a weakened Mataram in November 1743. Surabaya became a major trading center under the Dutch colonial government, and hosted the largest naval base in the colony. In 1917 a revolt occurred amongst the soldiers and sailors of Surabaya, led by the Indies Social Democratic Association. The revolt was firmly crushed and the insurgents given harsh sentences. During World War II Surabaya was captured by the Japanese in 1942. It was bombed by the Allies in 1944. After that it was seized by Indonesian nationalists. However, the young nation was soon put into conflict with the Allied-backed Dutch who tried to retake their colony. The Battle of Surabaya was one of the most important battles of the Indonesian revolution. It was started after British Brigadier General Mallaby was killed in October 30, 1945 near Jembatan Merah (the "Red Bridge"). The Allies gave an ultimatum to the Indonesian freedom fighters inside the city to surrender, but this was refused. The ensuing battle took place on 10 November, nowadays celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).The incident of red-white flag (Dutch' red-white-blue flag in the top of Yamato Hotel's tower was teared into Indonesian red-white flag) in Hotel Yamato is also recorded as a heroic struggle of this city. Because of prolonged international pressure, the Dutch transferred sovereignty of Indonesia in December 1949.