Solo Indonesia is known as one of the core of Javanese culture that traditionally is one of the political center and the development of Javanese tradition. The prosperity of this region since the 19th century, encouraging the development of Java-language literature, dance, culinary arts, fashion, architecture, and various other cultural expressions. People know of "competition" between the cultural Surakarta and Yogyakarta, which gave birth to what is known as "Surakarta style" and "style of Yogyakarta" in the field of fashion, dance movement, art leather chisel (puppet), processing of batik, gamelan, and so on.