Funny Toilet from Yogyakarta

A sculpture from artist in Yogyakarta

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Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia

 

*BOROBUDUR TEMPLE*

Borobudur is a ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist monument in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.

 

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Solo Batik Carnival in Indonesia

It’s Solo Batik Carnival in Indonesia, which is celebrated every year in Solo is known as Solo Batik Carnival. It was first started in the year 2008. Solo Batik Carnival is cooperation between the traditional and modern fashion. Batik is a never-ending creativity and has a background of a long history in Indonesia, the philosophy, design motifs, creators and community supporters. Models present creations made from traditional batik cloth.

Indonesia's tallest man, Suparwono falls short to be world's tallest

Indonesia's tallest man Suparwono, 24, walks with a relative at a shopping mall in Jakarta December 2, 2009. Museum Record Indonesia named Suparwono as the tallest man in Indonesia with a height of 2.42 metres (8 feet ) and a weight of 160 kg (353 pounds).

An Indonesian laborer who hoped to be named the world's tallest man is actually five centimeters (almost two inches) shorter than record-holder Sultan Kosen of Turkey, an official said Wednesday.

Suparwono, who like many Indonesians goes by just one name, was said to be 2.71 meters (8.89 feet) tall compared to Kosen's record height of 2.47 meters.

But official measurements taken by Indonesia's Museum of Records found the 25-year-old Suparwono stood at 2.42 meters, enough to make him Indonesia's tallest man but not enough to qualify for the Guinness World Records.

"After our team from the Museum of Record measured him lying down and in the standing position we found that his height is 2.42 meters," museum director Ngadri told AFP.

"We had reports this morning including the result of measurements from a hospital which were 2.71 meters. But we have to stick to our measurement," he said.

Suparwono shot to fame this week after one of his relatives in his home village of Tri Tunggal Jaya, in Sumatra island's southern Lampung province, invited neighbors to take pictures of him.

Within days he was appearing on television talk shows in Jakarta as the "Giant of Lampung."

Suparwono said sometimes he felt "proud" of his height but "it also gives me problems because I can't live like normal people", citing the difficulty of fitting into public buses and finding clothes large enough for his frame.

"I started to realize my exceptional height when I was 10 years old. At that time, I was already the tallest at my school and in my village," he told AFP between television appearances.

"I eat three kilograms (almost seven pounds) of rice every day and at least 15 eggs," he added.

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Tuban – The Earth-Eating Village of Indonesia

In Tuban, a village in the East Java  province of Indonesia, earth is used to make “ampo” a creamy snack believed to have medicinal properties.

According to Rasima, the ampo cook of Tuban, there is no real recipe to making this bizarre snack. All she does is look for clean, gravel-free soil, in the village’s rice paddies, pound it into a solid block, using a stick, and scrape rolls out of it,with a bamboo dagger. The rolls of soils are then baked and smoked for an hour. Rasima then takes the earthy snacks to the village market, where she earns about $2, to supplement her family’s income.
Tuban is the only earth-eating village on the planet. There are people, around the world, who enjoy eating sand, or kaolin, but not baked soil. Villagers believe ampo is a natural pain-killer, and that it makes babies’ skin softer, if eaten by their pregnant mothers.
As for the taste of ampo, “it’s nothing special, it feels cold in my stomach” says one of the Tuban locals, who has been eating ampo, ever since she was a child.












via REUTERS
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