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Mountain Leuser, Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
[19 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 29 views]

Mountain Leuser National Park is located at Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatera, Indonesia. It’s perfect example of coastal forest ecosystems, and tropical lowland and mountain rain forest.

The rock types consist of volcanic rocks, limestone, sedimentary rocks, plutons, and alluvium, the terrain is dominated by a complex of brown podzolic, …

Rencong, Aceh Traditional Weapon
[26 Dec 2009 | Comments Off | 753 views]

Rencong is a traditional weapon of the region of Aceh, Indonesia, shaped like an L, but if you look more closely, it looks more like ‘Bismillah’(arabic: in the name of God) calligraphy. Rencong included in the category of dagger (not a knife or sword).

Origins
Before Rencong was known, the people of …

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