The 2025 Segoro Topeng Kaliwungu Festival has become the only cultural event from Lumajang Regency, East Java Province that successfully became one of 110 festivals listed in the Tourism Ministry's Karisma Event Nusantara (KEN) 2025. This success puts Lumajang on the national stage and bolsters its cultural stature.

National Reog Ponorogo Festival (FNRP) XXX, which is held as part of Grebeg Suro Ponorogo 2025, has succeeded in attracting foreign attention.

The Eksotika Bromo Festival returns to the sand dunes of Mount Bromo in Probolinggo Regency, East Java, on June 21-22, 2025. The event featured a variety of arts and culture activities, including music, dance, and traditional arts performances from various regions.

Blitar City in East Java Province showed the synergy between historical heritage and its vision of development by holding the Soekarno Coffee Festival 2025.

Thousands of people crowded the Surabaya Expo Center (SBEC) area in Surabaya Youth Park (TRS), or the former People's Amusement Park (THR), in Surabaya City, East Java Province to take part in the Rujak Uleg Festival 2025 on the night of May 17, 2025. The event was organized by the Surabaya City Government with "The Legend of THR" as its theme.

East Java Deputy Governor Emil Elestianto Dardak received a courtesy call from Finnish Ambassador to Indonesia H.E. Jukka-Pekka Kaihilahti at the Shangri-La Hotel in Surabaya City, East Java. The visit on Apr. 29, 2025, is a strategic moment to strengthen Finnish-Indonesian bilateral cooperation, especially in the fields of investment, trade, forestry, and sustainable industrial development.

The Bromo Sunset Music and Culture cultural event was successfully held at the Seruni Point Glass Bridge Amphitheater in the Mount Bromo area of Probolinggo Regency, East Java Province on Apr. 19, 2025. The event, which combines the beauty of a mountain sunset panorama with traditional art performances, attracted thousands of visitors.