TV has become the cheapest entertainment means beside radio, and many families own CD and videocassettes. Some people prefer outside amusements such as cinema, karaoke, pub and discotheque. Sometime, in weekend, they go picnicking to some places of interest, to the mountain, to the beach or some good holiday resorts. Fishing is also a popular entertainment. The favorite domestic pets among other are dogs, cats and birds.
Some richer people have peacocks - the elegant birds.
The birds of poksay, cucakrawa and perkutut are very popular, especially perkutut is a bird of pride according to local tradition. A Javanese gentleman can sit hours, while sipping his sweet tea and smoking his kretek cigarettes, listening to his perkutut gentle songs. Perkutut is treated with special care, placed in a special cage designed only for this bird. The local fascination towards perkutut dates back centuries. It could be valued from its physical characteristics, which could bring safety and fortune to the owner and from its magical voice.