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Kraton Yogyakarta Palace

Have you ever been to Kraton Yogyakarta? Let me tell you a bit of Kraton. Kraton Yogyakarta is a palace where the sultan live, sultan is the king or the person who rules the city. If you go to Kraton Yogyakarta you will probably see people with traditional costumes walk around in the kraton, they usually greet the tourists, clean the traditional items such as golden chariots, traditional weapons, and more. They are abdi dalem, abdi dalem is person who work for sultan and dedicated their times in Kraton Yogyakarta. But here come the interesting fact, they work for Kraton Yogyakarta voluntarily and sincere, so they don’t expect to be paid. That’s just unbelievable right? in this era who want to dedicated their times and work for someone without getting paid. Well, it turn out that abdi dalem have 4 knight characters that motivate them to do their job. The characters of abdi dalem is very contrast to teenagers nowadays or Gen-Z. The Gen-Z characters many described by people that they are lazy, less commitment to their job, and many more.

This make us interested to do research about abdi dalem, what is 4 knight characters?can the 4 knight characters be applied to teenager nowadays or Gen-Z? is this characters suitable for this era of globalization? in this blog we will share about our research that talk about abdi dalem 4 knight characters and Gen-Z