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Coffee, Past and Now

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jateng.tribunnews.com Coffee that cultivated in Indonesia has been highly valuable plant and selling at the world market on 1830’s. The Netherlands that colonize Indonesia took advantages from it. At that time, Netherlands commanded Indonesian people to inculcate coffee in their fields. Coffee seeds from local and oversees imported. For those who do not have land must be worked at The Dutch Coffee Plantation. The Netherlands tasted the sweetness of planting coffee. State finances had been increased, but vice versa the colonies became more miserable. As the time goes by, coffee had declined at the international market. The Netherlands did not get a big income again. Nowadays, coffee becoming popular again. We can find coffee shops in every town of Indonesia. Coffee becomes trend and lifestyle among youths. Currently, hanging out without drinking coffee seems awkward. These become opportunities for many people open the coffee shops. ...

Kicau Mania

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gettyimage Most people love to hear the birds chirp in the morning. Because of their melodious voice, many people make the birds as a pet at home.  Especially for Javanese Men, birds are not just pets. Bird (kukilo) is one of the miners of Javanese men, besides Wismo (house), Wanito  (women), Turonggo (horse), and Curigo (Kris). Whatever it is, and what philosophy means behind it all, I will discuss it on another occasion. So this paper will focus on birds. In Indonesia, we often find birds at home. It does not matter whether the house is big or small. It does not matter whether he lives in residential or a narrow alley. You will easily see the birds with the hanging cage in front of the terraces of the house. The birds have their own level. For those who have more money,  they usually do not hesitate to keep a bird that has quite expensive like White-Rumped Shama and Straw-headed Bulbul. But for those who have limited money can ...

Paradise in Mandalika, Lombok

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In the last 10 years, West Nusa Tenggara, Lombok is very famous with Gili Trawangan, Rinjani Mountain, and Mataram, but did you know that in 1980, there was a famous destination in South of Lombok Island, Mandalika. It places had been one of the tourist destination besides Bali Island. It has a large bay and wide white sand that make local and foreign people fall in love at the first sight. Now, Mandalika has become one of the priority destination in Indonesia besides Borobudur, Tanjung Kelayang, Tanjung Lesung, Danau Toba, Labuan Bajo, Morotai, Wakatobi, Bromo Mountain, Kepulauan Seribu. Rony AN/Kompas Travel Actually, there are several beaches in this area like Gerupuk Beach, Tanjung Aan Beach, Serenting Beach, Kuta Beach, and Seger Beach. If you like surfing, there is Ubrug Beach that has beautiful scenery. The unique thing in Mandalika, there is a Bau Nyale Festival. It's present the tradition of taking earthworms that have been hundred years. And if you...

Sragen's Attractions

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Randy/detikTravel Sragen regency is about 20 km from Surakarta City. It's adjacent with Ngawi and Karanganyar. If you want to go East Java through southern, you have to traverse Sragen. Furthermore, you can enjoy some place such as historical attraction and cultural heritage. 1. Sangiran Early Man Site Sangiran is a place that fossil of Meganthropus Palaejavanicus and Phitecanthropus Erectus were discovered.  Moreover, many fossils of ancient human had discovered at that place. So far, there were 13.685 fossils in Sangiran. and you have to know that Sangiran had been enacted as World Heritage by UNESCO. 2. Kemukus Mountain Kemukus is one of the popular destination for looking wealth. People usually have a sex ritual at Kemukus to get rich. 3. Batik from Kliwonan  Batik is a part of Javanese culture and acknowledged by UNESCO as a representative list of the intangible cultural heritage humanity. Kliwonan village located at Masaran district

Condemning Ahok's Blasphemy

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Instagram Rumah Lembang Hot news from Jakarta is about blasphemy allegation did by Jakarta Governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok). Ahok was known as Jakarta gubernatorial candidate became a target of Muslim troops. It's because he cited surah Al-Maidah 51 on his speech in Kepulauan Seribu Regency. Ahok said that Muslim should not be affected by his political rivals that always campaigned for not voted a non-Muslim candidate. Ahok says, "You are deceived by other people by surah al-maidah 51" Poorly his sentence in the speech was cut by someone named Buni Yani. In the caption of his video, Buni erased the word "by other people" and then he uploaded the video. It's made people infuriated and provoked "the action to defend Islam". Millions of people demonstrations and thronged the downtown. They wanted Ahok to be punished. Finally, Ahok suspected and his electability decreased sharply. Survey Indikator Polit...

A 'Flirtatious Policy' of New Minister of Education and Culture

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Only on a couple of days, Minister of Education and Culture tried to seek a public attention. He planned that students in Elementary and Junior High School will have full day school. cnnindonesia.com The reasons were if you had stayed at school, your character will build and to avoid the deviant behavior. Moreover, full day school will make children always in the control of their parents. Related to the hour of school, Indeed Our country is shorter than the other. In Singapore, the junior high school takes almost 9 hours at school. Whereas Cina Elementary school go on about 8 hours, junior high school 10 hours, and senior high school approximately 13 to 15 hours. Maybe Minister of Education and Culture use those countries as a benchmark to formulate a policy of education in Indonesia. The fact says that both of them are developed countries. However, Finlandia, the country that always be a reference in developing education only let their student ...

Paradise in Raja Ampat, Indonesia

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twisata.com Raja Ampat is a regency in West Papua Province, Indonesia. It has an area about 46.108 km2, and almost 85% of it is the sea. It coastline is about 4.860 km. It region has 60.000 residents that spread out in 35 over 610 islands. There are 4 big islands: Misool Island, Waigeo Island, Batanta Island, Salawati Island. The local communities work as a fisherman. People in Raja Ampat are warm and kind. They are welcome to tourists. The residents of Raja Ampat are Christian and Moslem. But they are living in peace though different beliefs. I suggest you bring areca to Raja Ampat, because it is the symbol of peace.  Raja Ampat just like a paradise. As far as you see, your eyes will be spoiled by beautiful scenery. It place has amazing underwater biodiversity (the best in the world) with the coral reef that rises to the top.  The study says that Raja Ampat Islands has 75% of world's coral species. So it is not surprisingly that many biodiversity life unde...