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The Famous Padang Cuisine

April 14, 2009
By Brahmanto Anindito
The Famous Padang Cuisine

By Brahmanto Anindito Mostly, cities in Indonesia have Padang Restaurant, or at least Padang hut. It is popular too internationally. Do you know it? The cuisine of the Minangkabau (a land of around West Sumatra province) people is commonly called Padang cuisine, due to it is the central and largest city of the region. Padang...
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The Singer that Alerts Mentawai to Any Disaster

March 23, 2009
By Brahmanto Anindito
The Singer that Alerts Mentawai to Any Disaster

By Brahmanto Anindito This primate exclusively lives on Mentawai, the islands with 16,000 inhabitants, West Sumatra Province. Bilou or Mentawai Gibbon (Hylobates klossii) is from Hylobatidae (gibbon) family. It is similar to siamang with the same black fur, but is considerably smaller and lacks the siamang’s typical throat pouch. Bilou reaches 44 to 63 cm...
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