Tag: Coffee, Culture, Luwak, Toba Lake
Early morning Luwak coffee on Pahoda Hill, Lake Toba
Horas is the word for Batak people to greet each other. It’s more than just hello. It could mean how are you, good morning, afternoon and evening, wishing good health...
Hanging on a Limb: Indonesia’s Endangered Orangutans
The orangutan lives in the wild in only two places on earth: Sumatra and the island of Borneo. This means that most of them live within the borders of Indonesia. And...
Lake Toba Festival: dances, rituals and boat races
From Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, it is a 5 hour drive to the much cooler town of Balige (800 m above sea level) on beautiful Danau (Lake) Toba. We are invited...
Lampung’s sugar-coated elections
By: Ward Berenschot and Darmawan Purba Ridho’s campaign sugar- LampungOnline: http://www.lampungonline.com/2014/03/bagi-gula-cagub-cawagub-lampung-ridho.html On 9...
Subaltern cosmopolitans, Riau Islands
When people think of cosmopolitans, they think of jet-setting elites or the chattering classes, flitting between countries and consuming the ‘global’ through food,...
Book review
Margaret Kartomi’s life-long devotion to bringing Sumatran music to the world is revealed in her major contribution to analysing and preserving this musical...
A Gado-Gado Recipe while Dreaming about a Mansion
By: Jacobus E. Lato September is Food Month at Latitudes. After Krupuk and Baso now it's time to learn about Gado-Gado, a popular vegetable mix. Gado-Gado is an...
Lake Toba, Sumatra’s Gem!
By: Isaac Olson Coming across the words, "supervolcano" and "largest known explosive eruption anywhere on Earth in the last 25 million years" were enough to spark my...
Food Heaven in a Medan Alley: Jalan Selat Panjang Medan
By: Labodalih Sembiring Medan, 9:45 p.m. The city’s commonly unruly traffic has died down. But this is not the case in a narrow street tucked behind Jalan Semarang,...
