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Terung: Indonesia
By Barrie | 
No Comments » Let us turn our attention to eggplants. In the Indonesian language, the vegetable is referred to as terung. With eggplants one can cook various appetizing dishes, traditionally or creatively prepared as gastronome and epicurean el supremo Suryatini N.Ganie explains.
Total Lunar Eclipse in Indonesia
By Barrie | No Comments » The people in Indonesia will be able to see a total lunar eclipse on Tuesday, August 28, 2007. The Boscha observatory will conduct a joint monitoring and observation of the total lunar eclipse along with of the Bandung Institute of Technology`s Astronomy Department.
Barli Museum: Bandung, West Java
By Barrie | No Comments » Just 110 unsold works of the late artist Barli Sasmitawinata remain in Bandung’s Barli Museum as part of an exhibition held since the painter died earlier this year, aged 85.
Improving Traditional Tea Farmers: Bandung, West Java
By Barrie | No Comments » Dedeh Aisyah, 55, is a tea farmer in Rancabali, Bandung. The mother of six children has no other skills to support her family. But while she has worked as a farmer for the last seven years, she still lacks the technical skills required to improve her crops.
Riverboarding on the Citarum: Bandung, West Java
By Barrie | No Comments » 
Robert Carlson, a Californian surfer, once said, “Anyone who jumps into the water and grabs a log is riverboarding. It harks back to Paleolithic times.”
House of Sausage: Bandung, West Java
By Barrie | 2 Comments » 
A new culinary business in Bandung has hit upon an idea to create a food that would lure an endless stream of visitors — as well as to take advantage of tourists to the West Java capital, located only an hour’s drive from Jakarta.
Bureaucracy in West Java
By Barrie | No Comments » Doing business in West Java is expected to be simpler and less time consuming with the newly opened integrated service center in provincial capital Bandung. The center, called a one-roof integrated service management unit, will cater to businesspeople in need of permits and other recommendations from the provincial administration.
The Delights of Lumpia: Indonesia
By Barrie | 1 Comment » Being a country with two seasons, the dry and the rainy, we do not have special food for special seasons. Chinese envoys and traders long ago brought seasonal foods with them when they anchored in their ports of call.
‘People’s Pharmacies’: Indonesia
By Barrie | No Comments » The government has come closer to providing affordable drugs for the public by establishing the Apotek Rakyat (People’s Pharmacy) program to enable people to procure inexpensive over-the-counter and prescribed drugs. The People’s Pharmacy is based on a ministerial decree enacted in March 2007.
Natural Attractions in Montane Ciwidey: Bandung, West Java
By Barrie | No Comments » 
Tired of the hectic culinary or shopping tourism in northern Bandung? Visit the montane area in the south, and you can enjoy the exotic panorama and the fresh, cold mountain air.
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