Salak Fruit (Snakeskin Fruit)

SALAK FRUIT BALI

One of the local mastermind of Bali is a palm like plant called Salak which grows well in the area of Sibetan, Nongan and Batusesa village which is situated in the Karangasem Regency, Bali. Salak is one of tropical plantation that can turn out round to conical fruits shape. The fruits are in a bunch of 10 to 20 pieces. During the fruits season one tree can give 3 to 5 bunches. The skins of fruit consist of overlapping brown conical to triangle scales with delicious white meat and one seed inside. The family name of this plantation is Arecaceae, the Indonesian name is Salak Palm or Snake fruit and the Species name is Salacca Edulis. Salak is one of Indonesian original fruits and it also grows it in Thailand.
Why it is called “SNAKEFRUITS”? Because the fruit covered by brown scales look like snake skin pattern with thorns. For well mature fruits, the thorn itself will come off easily but when the fruit is still young the thorns glue on the scale strongly for natural protection. It is prohibited to touch young fruit directly by hand as the thorns are sharp and may injure easily. It is very easy to identify when the fruit well mature, by just seeing from the thorns, colour and fruit smell. The good product are ready to be harvested if the thorns have come off, and the color changed from brown to yellowish, and radiating nice smell.

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The United State of America President Barack Obama might have to shorten his previously brief stop in the Indonesian capital because of the ash clouds from a powerful volcano, but he had sufficient time to fondly glimpse parts of the Indonesian land where he lived for part of his boyhood.
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Bali in Ancient History

Bali was populated by about 2000 BC by Austronesian peoples who migrated originally from Taiwan through Maritime Southeast Asia. Culturally and linguistically, the Balinese are thus closely connected to the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago, the Philippines, and Oceania. Stone tools dating from this time have been found near the village of Cekik in the island's west.

Balinese culture was strongly prejudiced by Indian and Chinese, and particularly Hindu culture, in a process beginning around the 1^st  century AD. The name of Bali dwipa ("Bali island") has been exposed from various inscriptions, including the Blanjong column inscription written by Sri Kesari Warmadewa in 914 AD and mentioning "Walidwipa". It was during this time that the complex irrigation system subak was developed to grow rice. Some religious and cultural traditions still in existence today can be traced back to this period. The Hindu Majapahit Empire (1293–1520 AD) on eastern Java founded a Balinese colony in 1343. When the empire declined, there was an exodus of intellectuals, artists, priests and musicians from Java to Bali in the 15th century.

Tanah Lot, one of the major temples in Bali
The first European contact with Bali is thought to have been made in 1585 when a Portuguese ship foundered off the Bukit Peninsula and left a few Portuguese in the service of Dewa Agung. In 1597 the Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman arrived at Bali and, with the establishment of the Dutch East India Company in 1602, the stage was set for colonial control two and a half centuries later when Dutch control expanded across the Indonesian archipelago throughout the second half of the nineteenth century (see Dutch East Indies). Dutch political and economic control over Bali began in the 1840s on the island's north coast, when the Dutch pitted various distrustful Balinese realms against each other.  In the late 1890s, struggles between Balinese kingdoms in the island's south were exploited by the Dutch to increase their control.