Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Jalur Rempah (Spice Trail)

DISCOVER THE HISTORY OF THE SPICE TRAIL
Like Silk Road whose implication for the advance of the ancient civilization has wowed the world over, the Spice Trail (Jalur Rempah) has a tremendous significance to the history of the world, and more importantly, to shaping Indonesia.
One of Indonesia’s founding fathers and national leader, H. Agus Salim said in 1952 when responding to a question from Prince Philips of England about the kretek (clove) cigarette he was smoking, “This is, Sir, the reason for which the West traveled and conquered the world.”
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