States of Splendor
Known in Javanese as the “Land of a thousand temples”, Sewu temple is a great marvel of buddhist architecture in Indonesia. For a very long period, it was praised as a wonder of perfection. For a long tme, the temple complex was shrouded in mystery. It’s origins were associated to a story relating it to…
Widely remembered for it’s 2011 eruption, Mount Bromo is a subject of ancestral worship amongst the people living at it’s foot, in East Java’s Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, Indonesia. /Lai-Kuen Tang Recognized as a Réserve de biosphère (biosphère reserve) in 2015 by UNESCO, Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, is a land of wonders containing, amongst…
Bat meat cuisine from North Sulawesi, Indonesia Indonesia has many typical culinary traditions spread throughout the archipegalo. In Manado, North Sulawesi, there is one food which slightly creepy when we imagine eating it. Even for a native Indonesian such as myself, this food brings up images of something that is not unlike what some Americans…
Yellow rice As many people know, rice is essential to most of asiatic cuisine.The majority of Indonesia’s populations consume rice as a staple food. The rice can also be used in the practice of certain traditional rituals such as honoring ancestors; therefore rice is an important staple food in the daily life of the Indonesian…