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----- Original Message -----From: tomoSent: Friday, September 11, 2009 10:54 PMSubject: [bango-mania] Tour de Tambi : Jalan-jalan di Perkebunan teh Tambi
Kami berangkat dari rumah Turi tanggal 31 Desember 2008 jam 17.00, dengan menggunakan 3 mobil. Setelah sholat maghrib di Magelang dan makan malam di Temanggung, kami sampai di Perkebunan Tambi jam setengah 11 malam. Kami kemudian menikmati minuman teh, lumayan untuk menghangatkan badan dari hawa dingin yang menusuk tulang dan setelah minum kami segera menuju ke kamar masing-masing yang sudah dipesan. Saya dan Afa kemudian tidur, sementara rombongan yang lainnya melewatkan pergantian tahun baru dengan menyaksikan pesta kembang api bersama pengunjung yang lain di halaman.Keesokan harinya kami menikmati paket agrowisata yang ditawarkan oleh Agrowisata Tambi, Paket yang ditawarkan meliputi:- Menikmati teh dan makanan ringan khas Wonosobo- Berjalan-jalan menyusuri kebun teh- Menyaksikan proses produksi teh di pabriknya- Sarapan pagiSelengkapnya silahkan baca di sini Tour de Tambi di Tahun Baru
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----- Original Message -----From: lindawati ----To: BULE Kurniawan ; irene ; atha ; yonson liu ; welli foe ; lily_damayanti@yahoo.com ; yuli - ; tkers ; samaggiphala@yahoogroups. com Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:36 PMSubject: [teras-kuliner] Waspada, Teh Botol Sosro Racunnya Teh
Waspada, Teh Botol Sosro Racunnya Teh
Marini tidak mengerti kenapa anaknya bertingkah aneh malam itu,
terus-terusan rewel. "Rasanya dia tidak sakit apa-apa." Sudah tiga
dokter yang dia temui, semuanya menunjukkan gejala kecanduan yang akut.
Tapi kecanduan apa, anaknya belum bisa bicara, bagaimana dia bisa cari
tahu?
Sampai akhirnya dia menemukan berita mengenai kandungan berlebihan
hidroxylic acid (atau nama resminya dalam format IUPAC adalah dihidrogen
monoksida) di dalam Teh Botol Sosro dari internet. Ia langsung ingat,
anaknya tadi siang baru saja menghabiskan tiga botol teh yang dibungkus
dalam berbagai kemasan dan merk ini. Celaka!
Ya, selama ini orang menganggap Teh Botol Sosro dibuat dari daun teh
alami seperti yang diiklankan. Nyatanya itu semua bohong, daun teh
hanyalah sebagian kecil dari bahan utama. Hidroxylic acid lah yang
bertahun-tahun telah dipakai sebagai bahan utama teh botol sosro,
sehingga menyebabkan teh ini terasa lebih enak daripada merk-merk lain.
Scientist dari seluruh Universitas terkenal di Amerika sepakat, tanpa
kita sadari hydroxylic acid sudah menguasai industri makanan. Dengan
adanya hydroxylic acid, rasa pahit yang sering muncul bila kita memakai
pemanis buatan bisa hilang tidak bersisa. Nyaris tidak ada makanan dan
minuman olahan yang tidak disentuh bahan ini. Dalam batasan wajar memang
bisa berguna bagi tubuh kita, dan tubuh kita punya mekanisme untuk
menetralisir kelebihan zat ini. Namun begitu melebihi ambang batas,
tidak ada satupun manusia yang bisa selamat.
Gejala kelebihan hydroxylic acid meliputi pusing, diare, pecahnya
sel-sel tubuh (plasmolisis) , bahkan jika konsentrasinya di dalam tubuh
naik signifikan, bisa menyebabkan rusaknya sel batang otak (neurolisis)
dan kematian mendadak. Hal ini telah memusingkan banyak petugas medis di
dunia. "Sedetik saja gejala kelebihan ini terlambat ditangani, nyawa
pasien melayang," jawab Dr. Priyadi Handoko, ahli kesehatan dari IKDN.
Kalau sudah begini, pengobatannya bisa sampai jutaan rupiah. Lalu
mampukah orang-orang seperti Marini menyembuhkan anaknya?
Yang membuat masalah ini jadi runyam adalah tidak adanya regulasi
pemerintah tentang penggunaan hydroxylic acid dalam industri.
Pemakaiannya tercampur baur. Data menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar
industri berbahaya memakai Hydroxylic acid. Reaktor nuklir, pabrik
pupuk, pewarna tekstil, semua memakai bahan yang termasuk kategori
senyawa kuat ini dalam konsentrasi tinggi.
Bahkan beberapa tahun belakangan hydroxylic acid juga dipakai sebagai
agen reaktif dalam pengangkatan minyak bumi. Dengan bantuan hydroxylic
acid, sumur-sumur tua bisa kembali berproduksi.
Saat dihubungi, Humas PT Sosro tidak berkomentar banyak. "Kami sudah
menggunakannya secara bertanggung jawab. Seluruh lini produk Teh Botol
Sosro sudah lewat pengawasan badan POM". Masalahnya, berapa kadar
hydroxylic acid dalam makanan yang bisa dianggap bertanggung jawab?
Kenapa selama ini terkesan ditutup-tutupi dari sorotan publik? Saat
pertanyaan itu diajukan, "Brak!", telepon dibanting.
Hydroxylic acid adalah simbol keangkuhan industri besar makanan.
Penggunaannya tidak melalui transparansi yang jelas. Bahkan bahayanya
tidak pernah diumumkan ke masyarakat.. Tutup matanya pemerintah terhadap
isu ini wajar jika menimbulkan kecurigaan, berapa besar dana gelap yang
sudah mengalir untuk menyembunyikan bau busuk isu hydroxylic acid? Merk
apa saja yang sudah nekat memakai hydroxylic acid demi mendapatkan
keuntungan besar?
Kini anak Marini masih tergolek di tempat tidur dengan menangis. Marini
bingung, apa yang harus dilakukan sekarang. Untuk mengobati kecanduan
anaknya, dia tidak punya biaya..
Selalu bisa chat di profil jaringan, blog, atau situs web pribadi!
Yahoo! memungkinkan Anda selalu bisa chat melalui Pingbox. Coba!
----- Original Message -----From: Holy UncleSent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:15 PMSubject: [mediacare] Java TeesMAY 1, 2009
Java Tees
Among Paddies And Volcanoes, Great Golf Courses
By PAUL SPENCER SOCHACZEWSKI
Java is home to 130 million people, making it one of the most densely populated places on Earth. The island is also home to 20 recently active volcanoes, making it the planet's most volatile large land area -- and 107 golf courses, making it one of Asia's best, and least-appreciated, golf destinations.
The courses on Indonesia's most populous island, conceived by designers from Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer to Greg Norman and Robert Trent Jones Jr., roll next to paddy fields, provide magnificent views, and yes, can even be found on the flanks of steaming, sputtering volcanoes. One, Mount Merapi Golf, is also the home of the Mermaid Queen, the legendary consort of the influential sultan of Yogyakarta and the susuhunan of Solo.
Best of all, many of the finest courses are "semi-member" clubs that welcome visiting businesspeople and tourists during the week, when they are often refreshingly empty. (Walk-on guests are discouraged on weekends, though, when the courses are busy.) And they're relatively inexpensive -- it's not uncommon on a weekday to pay less than $30 for a greens fee and caddie for a round at one of the better courses in the Jakarta area.
And for those nongolf days, Java provides plenty of other things for a traveler to do, notes Zainal Soedjais, president of the Indonesian Golf Association, from nature and culture to heritage and art, not to mention food. (Think pristine rain forests, sultanates where courtly traditions and rituals still live, the 1,200-year old Buddhist temple of Borobudur, hand-crafted batik -- and, of course, satay.)
With all this, why doesn't Java draw golfers the way, say, Thailand does?
Murdaya Widyawimarta, president director of the busy Pondok Indah golf course and chairman of the Indonesia Golf Course Owners Association, blames poor marketing of the sport by government tourist departments.
Officials in Indonesia have the wrong idea about golf, seeing it as a luxury, says Christine Wiradinata, executive director of Damai Indah Golf and Country Club. One sign: "Golf courses have to pay the same high tax rate as massage parlors and karaoke bars," she says. "We need to reposition golf to show how well-managed courses save nature, reduce global warming and employ thousands of people." These would be courses that, for example, introduce nature to otherwise barren land.
Whether despite or because of the sport's elitist image, some in Indonesia's growing middle class have picked up golf with enthusiasm. "There are some 100,000 active golfers in Indonesia, most of them living in Java," says England Rachman, executive secretary of the Indonesian Golf Association. "Young professionals have money, and they're exposed to golf on TV."
They're taking up a sport with a long history in Indonesia. Jakarta Golf Club, more often called Rawamangun, dates to 1872; the narrow, tree-lined layout in the middle of the city is where former President Suharto, the late Indonesian strongman, regularly played.
Today a golfer has a much wider choice. Following the advice of golfing friends in Indonesia, I set off on a quick tour of Java to play some of its most interesting courses. Some highlights:
Jakarta-Bogor region
Within 60 kilometers of the noisy, congested, cosmopolitan capital of Jakarta you'll find 36 courses, some among the finest in Asia. The greatest concentration lies along the Jagorawi toll road, which connects Jakarta with Bogor, an hour to the south. Near Bogor, the topography becomes more hilly, and hence more interesting for golfers. Most Bogor-area courses offer stunning views of either Mount Gede or Mount Salak, the city's twin volcanoes. The city claims a global record for thunderstorms, averaging 322 annually over a stretch of several years early in the last century. The tally has been questioned, but odds are certainly pretty good that an afternoon round will be interrupted by a storm, so tee off in the morning.
Cengkareng Golf Club
Minutes from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta international airport, this popular course has the clearest strategy for drawing golfers -- male golfers, anyway -- of any course in Jakarta. "Our girls are iconic," says Ian Roberts, the general manager. "Golfers like to be served by attractive women." They're in alluring color-coded outfits: waitresses in orange miniskirts, "welcome girls" in peach (to take your clubs from the car), reception clerks in red and caddies in blue and yellow.
Other courses on Java, such as Rainbow Hils and Sentul, have pursued a similar approach.
The course itself is flat, but with plenty of flowers and mature trees, and it's close enough to the sea to that there's usually a breeze. It's also one of the more expensive courses in Indonesia, about $50 for a walk-in greens fee, including caddie charges.
62-21-5591-1111 | http://www.cengkarenggolfclub. com
Emeralda Golf Club
"Is that OB?" I asked after a nasty slice, employing the golf shorthand for "out of bounds."
"Yes. It's definitely 'Oh Beautiful,'" my caddie, Mulnia, replied.
Emeralda is one of dozens of well-managed clubs along the Jagorawi highway. The Plantation course is a rather ordinary nine-hole Jack Nicklaus layout (the 1997 Asian financial crisis halted construction on the second nine), but the two nine-hole Arnold Palmer courses -- the River Course and the Lake Course -- are pretty and challenging, with contoured fairways.
Added bonus: The course sells good-quality "experienced" balls for a fixed price of about $2.50 for 10, a bargain.
62-21-875-9019 | http://www.emeraldagolfclub. com
Rancamaya Golf & Country Club
An all-day deluge prevented my being able to play Rancamaya. The course, designed by Ted Robinson, is certainly pretty to look at, rich in vegetation that attracts wildlife. That's just part of its environmental appeal: Water-treatment systems convert "gray water" -- waste water from sources other than toilets -- into potable water, chemicals are rarely used and an extensive recycling program is in place.
Rancamaya's approach is particularly welcome in this hilly region, a case history of how not to manage watersheds -- deforestation and conversion of agricultural land to build homes and resorts have exacerbated seasonal flooding in Jakarta.
62-251-242-282 | http://www.rancamayaestate.com
Damai Indah Golf & Country Club
Damai Indah offers two courses, about 40 minutes apart from one another: Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD), designed by Jack Nicklaus, and Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK), designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Courses in and near the city, like these two and Pondok Indah, can act as green lungs for those parts of the metropolis, as well as de facto nature reserves. A bird census in 2007 indicated that 56 species live in or visit the BSD course, almost twice as many as when the course opened in 1992. This is what environmentalists call "restoration ecology" -- the BSD course was built on a disused sand quarry.
BSD was the first of seven Jack Nicklaus-designed courses in Indonesia. Located west of Jakarta in Tangerang, it's open, with wide fairways, lots of sand and very undulating, newly renovated greens. I particularly enjoyed the par 4, 292-meter 6th hole, which overlooks the Cisadane River, here relatively clean and fringed by vegetation.
The PIK course is among the busiest in Indonesia, with some 6,000 rounds played each month. It's a walking course -- no carts -- and nine holes have lights for tropical evenings, when the sun sets around 6 p.m.
62-21-537-0285 | http://www.damaiindah-golf.com
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Central Java
The island's middle-section contains the royal city of Yogyakarta, considered, along with neighboring Solo, the heart of Javanese culture. Yogyakarta is the better-known to visitors, trailing only Bali in popularity among tourists. A handful of good golf courses can be found outside Bandung (in West Java province), Yogyakarta, Semarang and Cirebon, amid volcanoes that spew whiffs of smoke and sulfur.
Merapi Golf
This 6,354-meter, par-72 setup, designed by five-time British Open champion Peter Thomson, is set in the foothills of Mount Merapi, near the royal cities of Yogyakarta and Solo. It is the home course of Sultan Hamengkubuwono X of Yogyakarta.
Among the holes on this attractive mountain course, the 17th looks like just another well-maintained example. But there is a powerful cultural tale attached, as I wrote about on a trip there in 2006. My caddie that day, Murwani, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, related a tale of having seen a few years back a brown and black snake, perhaps seven meters long and as big around as "a man's thigh," resting on a flat rock in the pond flanking the hole. Among the other locals who said they'd also seen the snake was one who reported it had had the head and body of a woman, sort of like a reptilian mermaid. Their conclusion was that it was an avatar of Kanjeng Ratu Kidul, the Mermaid Queen of the Southern Ocean -- in Javanese cosmology, an ancestor of the current sultan.
When Mount Merapi gurgled a minor eruption on the day construction of the golf course began in 1994, the omen- appreciative Javanese took it as a sign that Ratu Kidul was blessing the venture. And none of Merapi's regular volcanic burps since then has done any damage to the course. If you need more proof, it's said rain never falls here when the sultan is playing, even on the cloudiest, most threatening days. As soon as he gets into his car to leave, though, the skies can open up.
While an encounter with the Mermaid Queen is unlikely, all golfers can appreciate this layout. On my visit a few years ago I particularly enjoyed the fourth hole, starting with the view from the tee. On a fair day it's about as Javanese as you can get, postcard-perfect Mount Merapi rising behind the elevated green. The hole itself is an uphill par 3, 145 meters to that green, which is three-tiered and steeply canted. When my seven iron landed on the top level, Murwani warned the downhill putt would be "slippery." She was right: The ball slithered some three meters past the hole, leaving a tough putt coming back. But I sank it for a satisfying save of par.
62-274-896-176 | http://www.merapigolf.com
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East Java
There are a handful of courses in Surabaya, whose three million people make it Indonesia's second-biggest city, but for much more enjoyable golfing, drive an hour out of town to Pasuruan, home to Finna Golf & Country Club Resort and the Taman Dayu Club.
The two courses sit amid three volcanoes, and with their mature trees, diverse vegetation and relatively light use of chemicals attract birds and animals only infrequently found outside such natural areas. Other pleasant courses can be found in the hill resort of Malang.
Finna Golf & Country Club Resort
Fanny Dewi, general manager of Finna Golf & Country Club Resort, has no trouble explaining what golfers might find appealing about Java: "The golf is good. It's not expensive. Our tradition is to treat people with warmth and respect, so a visitor gets pampered."
I find something satisfying about playing near functioning rice fields in sight of looming volcanoes. I particularly enjoyed the 184-meter, par 3 fifth hole, with an elevated tee and a carry over paddy fields, which you treat as a water hazard if you're unfortunate enough to land one there. The 472-meter, par 5 10th hole is an intriguing double dogleg requiring two blind shots; be careful of the stream in front of the green.
This is a well-run operation -- from the moment I first spoke to the telephone operator, who was knowledgeable, competent and fluent in English, I sensed that Finna is on top of its game. Visitors can stay in the resort's comfortable cottages -- mine had its own pool. The restaurant is good, and there's even a grass tennis court.
62-343-634-888 | http://www.finnagolf.com
The Taman Dayu Club
The owners of Taman Dayu aren't shy about promoting Golf Digest's 2005 recognition of their course as one of the 50 best outside the U.S. And I can report having a very enjoyable round on this Jack Nicklaus Signature Course. Even the rental clubs were good, not a sure thing at many Asian courses.
I particularly like the par-4, 395-meter 5th hole. A diverse agricultural area (rice paddies, terraces of maize, mixed cropping of fruit trees) intrudes on the fairway on the right, putting a premium on an accurate tee shot. Behind the green soars the 3,156-meter-high cone of Mount Welirang, one of the area's five semiactive -- that is, quiet for the moment -- volcanoes.
62-343-633-411 | http://www.tamandayu.com
Trip Planner
How to get there: Cities with direct flights to Surabaya include Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur; there are direct flights to Jakarta from those three cities and many more, including Bangkok, Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei. There are frequent domestic flights between Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Surabaya, all roughly an hour from one another by air. Gridlock in greater Jakarta challenges even the most zen-like resident. When heading south to courses in the Bogor region, or west to those around Tangerang, leaving central Jakarta before 6 a.m. should get you to your destination within an hour. Taxis are cheap and plentiful; Bluebird and its ritzier Silverbird brand are recommended.
Where to stay: Some golf courses, such as Finna in East Java, are part of resorts that offer comfortable accommodation. Here are some choices elsewhere:
Jakarta
Hotel Nikko: Jakarta is rich in good hotels -- and in these recessionary times also with good deals. The Nikko is near the Hotel Indonesia roundabout, the part of town where I like to stay. Ask for a room in the renovated Tower Wing.
Jalan MH Thamrin 59 | Jakarta 10350
62-21-230-1122 | http://www.nikkojakarta.com
Hotel Indonesia Kempinski: A swank renovation of the city's most iconic hotel, whose Ramayana Bar was featured in the film "The Year of Living Dangerously."
Jalan MH Thamrin 1
62-21-2358-3800 | http://www.kempinski-jakarta. com
Sheraton Bandara: Conveniently located for the courses near the airport -- it's right next door to Cengkareng Golf Club -- and to the west.
Near Soekarno-Hatta Airport
62-21-559-7777 | http://www.sheraton.com
Bogor
Hotel Salak The Heritage
Jalan Ir. H. Juanda No. 8
62-251-837-3111 | http://www.hotelsalak.co.id
Yogyakarta
Phoenix Hotel Yogyakarta
Jalan Jenderal Sudirman 9
62-274-566-617 | http://www.accorhotels.com
Surabaya
Grand Mercure Mirama
Jalan Raya Darmo 68-78
62-31-562-3000 | http://www.mercuresurabaya.com
Sheraton Surabaya
Jalan Embong Malang 25-31
62-31-546-8000 | http://www.sheraton.com
—Paul Spencer Sochaczewski is a Bangkok-based writer
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