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Yg gw ga suka..tu acara yg harusnya 2 jam ud klaar bisa nyampe 6 jam..dr jam 6 sore ampe jam 12 atau 1 malam..ud melenceng jauh acaranya..
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Kebanyakan komentar sama ngelucu.
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Indonesia's Daud becomes new IBA, WBO Oriental world's super LW champ
Xinhua | Updated: 2019-11-18 09:35
JAKARTA - Indonesian fighter Daud Cino Yordan on Sunday defeated South African opponent Michael Mokoena by a technical knockout (TKO) in the IBA Super Lightweight World Title bout in Indonesia's East Java province.
With his win at the 8th round, Daud became the new IBA and WBO Oriental world's champion of the super lightweight category.
At the seventh round, Mokoena suffered an injury at his left shoulder, but he attempted to keep launching strikes.
Finally, at the eighth round the South African fighter gave up and retired.
With his victory, the Indonesian 32-year-old pugilist now has 40 wins (28 of which were knockouts) and four losses.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201911/18/WS5dd1f568a310cf3e35577f78.html
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And they're not even funny. All they do is throwing dirty jokes and insults toward each other. Ever since that abomination of a show called "Dahsyat", our music and entertainment has plunged into the mud because everybody else follow their style. smh.
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Xinhua | Updated: 2019-11-18 09:35
JAKARTA - Indonesian fighter Daud Cino Yordan on Sunday defeated South African opponent Michael Mokoena by a technical knockout (TKO) in the IBA Super Lightweight World Title bout in Indonesia's East Java province.
With his win at the 8th round, Daud became the new IBA and WBO Oriental world's champion of the super lightweight category.
At the seventh round, Mokoena suffered an injury at his left shoulder, but he attempted to keep launching strikes.
Finally, at the eighth round the South African fighter gave up and retired.
With his victory, the Indonesian 32-year-old pugilist now has 40 wins (28 of which were knockouts) and four losses.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201911/18/WS5dd1f568a310cf3e35577f78.html
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And they're not even funny. All they do is throwing dirty jokes and insults toward each other. Ever since that abomination of a show called "Dahsyat", our music and entertainment has plunged into the mud because everybody else follow their style. smh.
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KPI should intervene.
And now those show must compete with satellite TV and Youtube channel.
This channel is quite entertaining, particularly the one who like fishing and eating
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Earliest known cave art by modern humans found in Indonesia
Pictures of human-like hunters and fleeing mammals dated to nearly 44,000 years old
Cave art depicting human-animal hybrid figures hunting warty pigs and dwarf buffaloes has been dated to nearly 44,000 years old, making it the earliest known cave art by our species.
The artwork in Indonesia is nearly twice as old as any previous hunting scene and provides unprecedented insights into the earliest storytelling and the emergence of modern human cognition.
Previously, images of this level of sophistication dated to about 20,000 years ago, with the oldest cave paintings believed to be more basic creations such as handprints.
“We were stunned by the implications of this image,” said Adam Brumm, an archaeologist at the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University. “This was just mind-boggling because this showed us that this was possibly the oldest rock art anywhere on the face of this planet.”
The painting, discovered in 2017, is one of hundreds in South Sulawesi, including a red hand stencil, which was dated to at least 40,000 years ago. But the latest finding is exceptional as it is more than twice as old as any previously known narrative scenes and hints at ancient myths and an early capacity for imagination.
“It suggested to us that this extraordinary scene suggests a story or some kind of myth,” said Brumm.
The 4.5-metre-wide panel shows six fleeing mammals – two Sulawesi warty pigs and four dwarf buffaloes, known as anoas, small but fierce animals that still inhabit the island’s dwindling forests. The animals are being pursued by human-like figures with some animal features (academics call these therianthropes), who seem to be wielding long swords or ropes. Their bodies are human-shaped but one appears to have the head of a bird and another has a tail.
Human-animal hybrids occur in the folklore of almost every modern society and are frequently cast as gods, spirits or ancestral beings in religions across the world.
“The most fascinating aspect is it has all the key elements of modern human cognition,” said Prof Maxime Aubert, an archaeologist at Australia’s Griffith University. “Hand stencils, a narrative scene, human-like figures that were conceived of something that doesn’t really exist in the real world. Everything is there by 44,000 years ago.”
The cave is in a well-explored system, which researchers had visited frequently over the past decade. The discovery was made after an expedition member noticed what appeared to be an entrance to a high level chamber above and climbed up a fig tree to investigate. “And then, bang, there’s this incredible new rock art site in there that’s essentially like nothing we’ve ever seen before in this entire region,” said Brumm.
Rock art is difficult to date, and the scientists relied on analysing mineral growths known as cave popcorn, that had formed over the painting. Measuring the radioactive decay of uranium and other elements in the deposits gave dates ranging from 35,100 to 43,900 years as a minimum age for the Sulawesi discovery. The findings are described in the journal Nature.
“It’s just amazing and to me it just shows how much more rock art that is out there waiting to be discovered that completely changes our understanding of the human story,” said Brumm.
Before this latest discovery, the oldest undisputed examples of figurative cave art date to about 35,000 years old. The oldest cave art on record is abstract forms attributed to Neanderthals, which have been dated to 64,000 years old. The art features lines, dots and animal-like shapes.
https://amp.theguardian.com/science...-cave-art-by-modern-humans-found-in-indonesia
Pictures of human-like hunters and fleeing mammals dated to nearly 44,000 years old
Cave art depicting human-animal hybrid figures hunting warty pigs and dwarf buffaloes has been dated to nearly 44,000 years old, making it the earliest known cave art by our species.
The artwork in Indonesia is nearly twice as old as any previous hunting scene and provides unprecedented insights into the earliest storytelling and the emergence of modern human cognition.
Previously, images of this level of sophistication dated to about 20,000 years ago, with the oldest cave paintings believed to be more basic creations such as handprints.
“We were stunned by the implications of this image,” said Adam Brumm, an archaeologist at the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University. “This was just mind-boggling because this showed us that this was possibly the oldest rock art anywhere on the face of this planet.”
The painting, discovered in 2017, is one of hundreds in South Sulawesi, including a red hand stencil, which was dated to at least 40,000 years ago. But the latest finding is exceptional as it is more than twice as old as any previously known narrative scenes and hints at ancient myths and an early capacity for imagination.
“It suggested to us that this extraordinary scene suggests a story or some kind of myth,” said Brumm.
The 4.5-metre-wide panel shows six fleeing mammals – two Sulawesi warty pigs and four dwarf buffaloes, known as anoas, small but fierce animals that still inhabit the island’s dwindling forests. The animals are being pursued by human-like figures with some animal features (academics call these therianthropes), who seem to be wielding long swords or ropes. Their bodies are human-shaped but one appears to have the head of a bird and another has a tail.
Human-animal hybrids occur in the folklore of almost every modern society and are frequently cast as gods, spirits or ancestral beings in religions across the world.
“The most fascinating aspect is it has all the key elements of modern human cognition,” said Prof Maxime Aubert, an archaeologist at Australia’s Griffith University. “Hand stencils, a narrative scene, human-like figures that were conceived of something that doesn’t really exist in the real world. Everything is there by 44,000 years ago.”
The cave is in a well-explored system, which researchers had visited frequently over the past decade. The discovery was made after an expedition member noticed what appeared to be an entrance to a high level chamber above and climbed up a fig tree to investigate. “And then, bang, there’s this incredible new rock art site in there that’s essentially like nothing we’ve ever seen before in this entire region,” said Brumm.
Rock art is difficult to date, and the scientists relied on analysing mineral growths known as cave popcorn, that had formed over the painting. Measuring the radioactive decay of uranium and other elements in the deposits gave dates ranging from 35,100 to 43,900 years as a minimum age for the Sulawesi discovery. The findings are described in the journal Nature.
“It’s just amazing and to me it just shows how much more rock art that is out there waiting to be discovered that completely changes our understanding of the human story,” said Brumm.
Before this latest discovery, the oldest undisputed examples of figurative cave art date to about 35,000 years old. The oldest cave art on record is abstract forms attributed to Neanderthals, which have been dated to 64,000 years old. The art features lines, dots and animal-like shapes.
https://amp.theguardian.com/science...-cave-art-by-modern-humans-found-in-indonesia
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‘Pencak silat’ given UNESCO intangible world heritage distinction
Pencak silat, a traditional Indonesian martial art married with dance that has found a wider audience in film in the past few years, was recognized on Thursday as a piece of intangible world heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
UNESCO's inter-ministerial General Assembly announced the inscription of pencak silat onto its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at its meeting in Bogota, Colombia, said Kamapradipta Isnomo, a Foreign Ministry official.
The committee found that the discipline had elements of comradeship and helped preserve social order, whether in Indonesia's regions, nationally or even internationally, said Kama.
"The inclusion of pencak silat as intangible cultural heritage [...] is proof that the international community recognizes the importance of this martial art that has been passed down in Indonesia for generations and even to this day," said the director of the international organizations for developing countries.
"Indonesia is committed to preserving the tradition of pencak silat, not only through its instruction as a sport or martial art, but also in arts and culture."
As a sport and art form, pencak silat contains both self-defense and artistic aspects. Each region in Indonesia pursues its own distinct style while maintaining common fundamental principles.
The variety of schools across the archipelago attest to the popularity of pencak silat within the country, but the martial art has enjoyed a wider audience outside of Indonesia in recent years thanks to practitioners like Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian and Cecep Arif Rahman, who have appeared in film franchises such as The Raid, John Wick and Star Wars.
With the inclusion of pencak silat, Indonesia now has 10 traditions recognized as world cultural heritage: wayang (shadow puppet theater), Indonesian batik, education and training in batik, the angklung (bamboo tonal percussion instrument), the Saman dance from Aceh, the Noken netted bag from Papua, three types of Balinese traditional dance, South Sulawesi's Pinisi boat making and the kris dagger. (tjs)
https://www.thejakartapost.com/amp/...co-intangible-world-heritage-distinction.html
Pencak silat, a traditional Indonesian martial art married with dance that has found a wider audience in film in the past few years, was recognized on Thursday as a piece of intangible world heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
UNESCO's inter-ministerial General Assembly announced the inscription of pencak silat onto its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at its meeting in Bogota, Colombia, said Kamapradipta Isnomo, a Foreign Ministry official.
The committee found that the discipline had elements of comradeship and helped preserve social order, whether in Indonesia's regions, nationally or even internationally, said Kama.
"The inclusion of pencak silat as intangible cultural heritage [...] is proof that the international community recognizes the importance of this martial art that has been passed down in Indonesia for generations and even to this day," said the director of the international organizations for developing countries.
"Indonesia is committed to preserving the tradition of pencak silat, not only through its instruction as a sport or martial art, but also in arts and culture."
As a sport and art form, pencak silat contains both self-defense and artistic aspects. Each region in Indonesia pursues its own distinct style while maintaining common fundamental principles.
The variety of schools across the archipelago attest to the popularity of pencak silat within the country, but the martial art has enjoyed a wider audience outside of Indonesia in recent years thanks to practitioners like Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian and Cecep Arif Rahman, who have appeared in film franchises such as The Raid, John Wick and Star Wars.
With the inclusion of pencak silat, Indonesia now has 10 traditions recognized as world cultural heritage: wayang (shadow puppet theater), Indonesian batik, education and training in batik, the angklung (bamboo tonal percussion instrument), the Saman dance from Aceh, the Noken netted bag from Papua, three types of Balinese traditional dance, South Sulawesi's Pinisi boat making and the kris dagger. (tjs)
https://www.thejakartapost.com/amp/...co-intangible-world-heritage-distinction.html
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The Straits Times Asian of the Year 2019: Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo
10 December 2019
Joko has been able to navigate both domestic and international affairs, and taken his country forward.
Mr Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s seventh and current President, has been named as The Straits Times Asian of the Year 2019.
Every year the editors pick a person, a group or an institution that has impacted the Asian continent significantly for the past year, and the 58-year-old’s rise has been stellar. Mr Joko won a resounding victory earlier this year to retain power, but he first came to national attention 14 years ago, as the Mayor of Solo from 2005 to 2012.
Today, he presides over South-east Asia’s biggest nation and economy. While seemingly focused more on attending to domestic challenges initially, Mr Joko has in more recent times put Indonesia, widely regarded as the most significant voice in the 10-member Asean, at the heart of the regional group. Earlier this year, Jakarta hosted a regional meeting that first proposed the Asean Outlook on Indo-Pacific and played a key role in getting the document adopted by Asean leaders at a Bangkok summit in June.
Said The Straits Times in its citation for the award: “As the steward of a vast and disparate archipelagic nation that has more than 17,000 islands that faces Australia at one end and India at the other, he confronts many challenges, he has shown dexterity and nous in navigating the tricky cross-currents of domestic politics and international affairs. His grounded personality, ability to connect with people and empathise with the common folk have won him many admirers at home. Abroad, his ability to gaze beyond the horizon and grapple with strategic challenges facing his country and the region, has lately also been recognised.
“While cognisant of the challenges he faces, we nonetheless express the hope that the President will give no quarter and make no compromise in his quest to build a democratic, corruption-free, open, tolerant and inclusive Indonesia.”
Mr Warren Fernandez, editor, editor-in-chief of the Singapore Press Holdings’ English, Malay, Tamil Media Group, and editor of The Straits Times, said: “Each year, ST editors seek out a person, team or organisation that has not only made or shaped the news, but helped contribute positively to Asia in the process. President Joko Widodo has done that to great effect. Not only has he won a second term, he has done his part to keep a vast and disparate Indonesia together and taken it forward. Likewise for Asean. There is much scope for him to lead both further if he marshalls his considerable political skills and the goodwill that he enjoys with people all around Asia.”
Now in its eighth year, The Straits Times Asian of the Year award, announced towards the end of the year, has become an important part of the Asian calendar since 2012. The inaugural award went to then-Myanmar prime minister Thein Sein, followed by a joint award for Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2013, and to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014. In 2015, the award was given posthumously to Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding Prime Minister. In 2016, five Asian pioneers working in the intersection of technology and commerce were honoured as The Disruptors – the first time the award went to a group.
Mr Xi was Asian of the Year in 2017 while editors picked The First Responders, a bunch of people of courage and commitment who stepped up in the moment of greatest need during natural disasters, as Asians of the Year 2018. This year, the award reverts to a single person.
Jeremy Au Yong, foreign editor of The Straits Times, said: “The team debated long and hard about who should win the award but the decision was ultimately unanimous that President Jokowi was the most deserving candidate this year. In a year when disputes grabbed the headlines – our recent Straits Times Global Outlook Forum focused on how to navigate a world in conflict – Jokowi stood out as a someone who united rather than divided.”
(photo : SuaraSurabaya.net)
https://thepeakmagazine.com.sg/life...f-year-2019-indonesias-president-joko-widodo/
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KPI is total joke, they are useless. All they do is sit on the side waiting for something bad went viral before doing some "action". Their "action" is usually in the form of warning and very light infraction. They're in part responsible for the dwindling quality of our local TV contents.
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10 December 2019
Joko has been able to navigate both domestic and international affairs, and taken his country forward.
Mr Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s seventh and current President, has been named as The Straits Times Asian of the Year 2019.
Every year the editors pick a person, a group or an institution that has impacted the Asian continent significantly for the past year, and the 58-year-old’s rise has been stellar. Mr Joko won a resounding victory earlier this year to retain power, but he first came to national attention 14 years ago, as the Mayor of Solo from 2005 to 2012.
Today, he presides over South-east Asia’s biggest nation and economy. While seemingly focused more on attending to domestic challenges initially, Mr Joko has in more recent times put Indonesia, widely regarded as the most significant voice in the 10-member Asean, at the heart of the regional group. Earlier this year, Jakarta hosted a regional meeting that first proposed the Asean Outlook on Indo-Pacific and played a key role in getting the document adopted by Asean leaders at a Bangkok summit in June.
Said The Straits Times in its citation for the award: “As the steward of a vast and disparate archipelagic nation that has more than 17,000 islands that faces Australia at one end and India at the other, he confronts many challenges, he has shown dexterity and nous in navigating the tricky cross-currents of domestic politics and international affairs. His grounded personality, ability to connect with people and empathise with the common folk have won him many admirers at home. Abroad, his ability to gaze beyond the horizon and grapple with strategic challenges facing his country and the region, has lately also been recognised.
“While cognisant of the challenges he faces, we nonetheless express the hope that the President will give no quarter and make no compromise in his quest to build a democratic, corruption-free, open, tolerant and inclusive Indonesia.”
Mr Warren Fernandez, editor, editor-in-chief of the Singapore Press Holdings’ English, Malay, Tamil Media Group, and editor of The Straits Times, said: “Each year, ST editors seek out a person, team or organisation that has not only made or shaped the news, but helped contribute positively to Asia in the process. President Joko Widodo has done that to great effect. Not only has he won a second term, he has done his part to keep a vast and disparate Indonesia together and taken it forward. Likewise for Asean. There is much scope for him to lead both further if he marshalls his considerable political skills and the goodwill that he enjoys with people all around Asia.”
Now in its eighth year, The Straits Times Asian of the Year award, announced towards the end of the year, has become an important part of the Asian calendar since 2012. The inaugural award went to then-Myanmar prime minister Thein Sein, followed by a joint award for Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2013, and to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014. In 2015, the award was given posthumously to Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding Prime Minister. In 2016, five Asian pioneers working in the intersection of technology and commerce were honoured as The Disruptors – the first time the award went to a group.
Mr Xi was Asian of the Year in 2017 while editors picked The First Responders, a bunch of people of courage and commitment who stepped up in the moment of greatest need during natural disasters, as Asians of the Year 2018. This year, the award reverts to a single person.
Jeremy Au Yong, foreign editor of The Straits Times, said: “The team debated long and hard about who should win the award but the decision was ultimately unanimous that President Jokowi was the most deserving candidate this year. In a year when disputes grabbed the headlines – our recent Straits Times Global Outlook Forum focused on how to navigate a world in conflict – Jokowi stood out as a someone who united rather than divided.”
(photo : SuaraSurabaya.net)
https://thepeakmagazine.com.sg/life...f-year-2019-indonesias-president-joko-widodo/
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KPI is total joke, they are useless. All they do is sit on the side waiting for something bad went viral before doing some "action". Their "action" is usually in the form of warning and very light infraction. They're in part responsible for the dwindling quality of our local TV contents.
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Indonesia unveils homegrown B30 biodiesel
Monday, December 23, 2019
JAKARTA: Indonesia has launched biodiesel containing 30% palm-based fuel, the highest mandatory mix in the world, in a bid to slash its fuel import bill and boost domestic palm oil consumption.
President Joko Widodo said the so-called “B30” biodiesel would allow Indonesia to cut its fossil fuel imports by 63 trillion rupiah (US$4.5bil) a year, up from 43.8 trillion rupiah saved in 2019 from existing B20 fuels. — Reuters
https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2019/12/24/indonesia-unveils-b30-biodiesel
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/12/23/homegrown-fuel-jokowi-kicks-off-b30-policy.html
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Indonesian students win six gold medals in World Memory Tour Final 2019
The Jakarta Post / Mon, December 23, 2019 / 01:41 pm
Indonesia’s junior memory sports team has won big in the World Memory Tour Final 2019 held in Xiamen, China, from Dec. 16 to 18, obtaining six gold medals, five silvers and seven bronzes from 10 competition categories.
The results made Indonesia the overall winner in the junior category with a clean sweep of all top three positions.
Janet Valencia from Regina Pacis high school in Bogor, West Java, took the top spot with 4,260 points, Amira Tsurayya Muniruzzaman from Al Bayan high school in Sukabumi came second with 4,008 points, while Yossyifa Zahra from SMA 1 state high school in Depok finished in third place with 3,782 points.
Janet won two gold medals, one for memorizing names and faces in 15 minutes and one for memorizing the order of random words in 15 minutes, while Amira won three gold medals for memorizing a set of binary numbers in 30 minutes, memorizing the order of random images in five minutes and memorizing spoken numbers. Yossyifa also won one gold medal in the speed numbers category.
Besides being the overall champion, Janet also broke the junior world record for memorizing faces and names after recalling 141 names in 15 minutes, five more than the previous record. Meanwhile Yossyifa was awarded the title International Grandmaster of Memory after memorizing 1,000 random digits and 10 decks of playing cards in one hour and memorizing the order of one deck of shuffled playing cards in under two minutes.
“These achievements show that Indonesia is no doubt one of the teams with the strongest memory and concentration in the world,” Indonesian team head Yudi Lesmana said in a statement from the Indonesia Memory Sports Council. (kmt)
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news...d-medals-in-world-memory-tour-final-2019.html
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From Jay-Z to Serena Williams, celebrities invest in local coffee chain Kopi Kenangan
The Jakarta Post / Mon, December 23, 2019 / 05:27 pm
Billionaire rapper Jay-Z and tennis star Serena Williams are among global public figures who have invested their funds to back the growth of Indonesia’s homegrown coffee chain Kopi Kenangan, the chain’s CEO confirmed on Monday.
“Kopi Kenangan has the vision to take [the brand] internationally on the global stage. That’s why we decided to find investors that could help us with such brand-building,” Kopi Kenangan cofounder and CEO Edward Tirtanata told The Jakarta Post.
Edward said the deal had been sealed last week.
Williams invested through her venture company, Serena Ventures, while Jay-Z made the investment through his venture firm Arrive, a subsidiary of entertainment management company Roc Nation Company, Edward explained.
Arrive cofounder and president Neil Sirni said his team was “inspired” by Kopi Kenangan’s “tenacity, vision and ability to execute”, citing the coffee chain’s rapid expansion to 18 cities, 200 stores and over 1,800 employees since its debut in 2017 as proof of such qualities.
“We’re excited to be an investor in and partner to Kopi Kenangan as they introduce Indonesian-style coffee to the world,” Sirni said in a press statement published on Sunday.
While he is unable to disclose the exact investment value for the two deals, Edward said the growth funding that Kopi Kenangan had secured from all investors now amounted to “more than US$20 million” — adding to Sequoia India’s $20 million investment that kicked off the expansion last June.
Aside from the two stars, world-renowned basketball player Caris LeVert as well as salad retailer and unicorn Sweetgreen CEO and cofounder Jonathan Neman were also included on the list of investors for the expansion.
In a release, Kopi Kenangan’s owners said they were planning to add more than a thousand new stores over the next two years and expand the chain across Southeast Asia.
“We want to build a legendary brand,” Edward said, “We have come a long way since our humble beginnings two years back and we want to continue learning and improving our service and products to meet the expectations of our customers in Indonesia and other markets.”
The expansion was not Kopi Kenangan’s first million-dollar deal as venture firm Alpha JWC Venture injected $8 million worth of capital into the brand last year.
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news...vest-in-local-coffee-chain-kopi-kenangan.html
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Monday, December 23, 2019
JAKARTA: Indonesia has launched biodiesel containing 30% palm-based fuel, the highest mandatory mix in the world, in a bid to slash its fuel import bill and boost domestic palm oil consumption.
President Joko Widodo said the so-called “B30” biodiesel would allow Indonesia to cut its fossil fuel imports by 63 trillion rupiah (US$4.5bil) a year, up from 43.8 trillion rupiah saved in 2019 from existing B20 fuels. — Reuters
https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2019/12/24/indonesia-unveils-b30-biodiesel
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/12/23/homegrown-fuel-jokowi-kicks-off-b30-policy.html
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Indonesian students win six gold medals in World Memory Tour Final 2019
The Jakarta Post / Mon, December 23, 2019 / 01:41 pm
Indonesia’s junior memory sports team has won big in the World Memory Tour Final 2019 held in Xiamen, China, from Dec. 16 to 18, obtaining six gold medals, five silvers and seven bronzes from 10 competition categories.
The results made Indonesia the overall winner in the junior category with a clean sweep of all top three positions.
Janet Valencia from Regina Pacis high school in Bogor, West Java, took the top spot with 4,260 points, Amira Tsurayya Muniruzzaman from Al Bayan high school in Sukabumi came second with 4,008 points, while Yossyifa Zahra from SMA 1 state high school in Depok finished in third place with 3,782 points.
Janet won two gold medals, one for memorizing names and faces in 15 minutes and one for memorizing the order of random words in 15 minutes, while Amira won three gold medals for memorizing a set of binary numbers in 30 minutes, memorizing the order of random images in five minutes and memorizing spoken numbers. Yossyifa also won one gold medal in the speed numbers category.
Besides being the overall champion, Janet also broke the junior world record for memorizing faces and names after recalling 141 names in 15 minutes, five more than the previous record. Meanwhile Yossyifa was awarded the title International Grandmaster of Memory after memorizing 1,000 random digits and 10 decks of playing cards in one hour and memorizing the order of one deck of shuffled playing cards in under two minutes.
“These achievements show that Indonesia is no doubt one of the teams with the strongest memory and concentration in the world,” Indonesian team head Yudi Lesmana said in a statement from the Indonesia Memory Sports Council. (kmt)
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news...d-medals-in-world-memory-tour-final-2019.html
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From Jay-Z to Serena Williams, celebrities invest in local coffee chain Kopi Kenangan
The Jakarta Post / Mon, December 23, 2019 / 05:27 pm
Billionaire rapper Jay-Z and tennis star Serena Williams are among global public figures who have invested their funds to back the growth of Indonesia’s homegrown coffee chain Kopi Kenangan, the chain’s CEO confirmed on Monday.
“Kopi Kenangan has the vision to take [the brand] internationally on the global stage. That’s why we decided to find investors that could help us with such brand-building,” Kopi Kenangan cofounder and CEO Edward Tirtanata told The Jakarta Post.
Edward said the deal had been sealed last week.
Williams invested through her venture company, Serena Ventures, while Jay-Z made the investment through his venture firm Arrive, a subsidiary of entertainment management company Roc Nation Company, Edward explained.
Arrive cofounder and president Neil Sirni said his team was “inspired” by Kopi Kenangan’s “tenacity, vision and ability to execute”, citing the coffee chain’s rapid expansion to 18 cities, 200 stores and over 1,800 employees since its debut in 2017 as proof of such qualities.
“We’re excited to be an investor in and partner to Kopi Kenangan as they introduce Indonesian-style coffee to the world,” Sirni said in a press statement published on Sunday.
While he is unable to disclose the exact investment value for the two deals, Edward said the growth funding that Kopi Kenangan had secured from all investors now amounted to “more than US$20 million” — adding to Sequoia India’s $20 million investment that kicked off the expansion last June.
Aside from the two stars, world-renowned basketball player Caris LeVert as well as salad retailer and unicorn Sweetgreen CEO and cofounder Jonathan Neman were also included on the list of investors for the expansion.
In a release, Kopi Kenangan’s owners said they were planning to add more than a thousand new stores over the next two years and expand the chain across Southeast Asia.
“We want to build a legendary brand,” Edward said, “We have come a long way since our humble beginnings two years back and we want to continue learning and improving our service and products to meet the expectations of our customers in Indonesia and other markets.”
The expansion was not Kopi Kenangan’s first million-dollar deal as venture firm Alpha JWC Venture injected $8 million worth of capital into the brand last year.
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World’s biggest flower — which smells like rotting flesh — found in Indonesia
By Muri Assunção
New York Daily News |
Jan 04, 2020 | 11:38 AM
Breathtaking, majestic and stinky: One of the world’s largest flowers was just spotted.
Researchers say they have found the largest specimen ever recorded of one the world’s largest flowers in a West Sumatran forest in Indonesia.
The exciting discovery of the oversized Rafflesia tuan-mudae — an already-giant bright red flower whose petals show hundreds of discolored spots resembling blisters — broke a previous record.
The recent discovery measures 3.6 feet (111 centimeters) in diameter, 4 centimeters larger than the previous record holder, a specimen found in the same area several years ago, according to science and research hub Phys.org.
"This is the largest Rafflesia tuan-mudae that has ever been documented," said Ade Putra at the Agam Conservation Agency in Sumatra.
The flower is named after Sir Stamford Raffles, a British colonialist known as the founder of Singapore, who first spotted one in Indonesia in the early 19th Century, according to the AFP news agency.
The parasitic plant, usually found in Southeast Asia, only blooms for about a week. After that, the flower withers and rots.
With no roots or leaves, it feeds on a host plant, drinking its nutrients to survive.
It’s sometimes referred to as a “corpse flower” for the stench that it gives out — similar to rotting flesh — to attract insects to pollinate it.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/wo...0200104-whcllowiobfuvjq2zbvmel4nve-story.html
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By Muri Assunção
New York Daily News |
Jan 04, 2020 | 11:38 AM
Breathtaking, majestic and stinky: One of the world’s largest flowers was just spotted.
Researchers say they have found the largest specimen ever recorded of one the world’s largest flowers in a West Sumatran forest in Indonesia.
The exciting discovery of the oversized Rafflesia tuan-mudae — an already-giant bright red flower whose petals show hundreds of discolored spots resembling blisters — broke a previous record.
The recent discovery measures 3.6 feet (111 centimeters) in diameter, 4 centimeters larger than the previous record holder, a specimen found in the same area several years ago, according to science and research hub Phys.org.
"This is the largest Rafflesia tuan-mudae that has ever been documented," said Ade Putra at the Agam Conservation Agency in Sumatra.
The flower is named after Sir Stamford Raffles, a British colonialist known as the founder of Singapore, who first spotted one in Indonesia in the early 19th Century, according to the AFP news agency.
The parasitic plant, usually found in Southeast Asia, only blooms for about a week. After that, the flower withers and rots.
With no roots or leaves, it feeds on a host plant, drinking its nutrients to survive.
It’s sometimes referred to as a “corpse flower” for the stench that it gives out — similar to rotting flesh — to attract insects to pollinate it.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/wo...0200104-whcllowiobfuvjq2zbvmel4nve-story.html
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