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The Most Expensive Coffee in The World Named Luwak Coffee

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Location of Indonesia that is geographically in the right on the equator makes the area rich in natural resources including rich flora and fauna that has been and continues to develop into part of the national culture of Indonesia. One of the natural wealth of Indonesia which has a high economic value and cultures that together we need to keep and preserve is a Luwak coffee/ Civet coffee. Civet coffee is steeping coffee use coffee beans taken from the remaining dirt mongoose / palm civet. Coffee beans are believed to have different tastes when eaten and passed through the digestive tract mongoose. Notoriety of this coffee in Southeast Asia has long been known, but only became widely known in the gourmet coffee enthusiasts after its publication in the 1980's. Civet coffee beans is the most expensive in the world, reaching U.S. $ 100 per 450 grams. Why are coffee beans that come from Civet have high quality? Mongoose, or mongoose civet, happy to look for fruits th

GIANT FLOWER (The Truly Indonesian Flower)

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Rafflesia Arnoldii is one of Indonesia's unique flora as a "rare Indonesia's national flower." It has the name of a diverse language population in accordance with the growth areas, such as "sekedai", "ambun", flowers parasite, ghost flower, "ambai-ambai" and others. There are several types of Rafflesia flowers Acehencis such as Rafflesia, Rafflesia Rochussenii, Rafflesia zollingeriana and others that the growth in some areas in the region Malenesia which includes Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. But the kind of size is generally smaller with each other differently. Rafflesia Arnoldii huge and there are known only in Sumatra and is spreading along the "Bukit Barisan" back from Aceh to Lampung with ecological center in Bengkulu. The Flower blooms start to open it with one at lobur perigonium or approximately at the time of bud berdiameter 30-35 cm. The length of the development of the bud berdiameter up to 4 cm flowers b