"SEBLAK" A modified Local Wisdom

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JAPLAK, NOODLES SEBLAK WITH CHICKEN FEET TOPPING!

        Talking about food variety from Indonesia has always been a non-ending Topic. The Country of Hundreds of fascinating Cultures and unique Tribes has been the heaven of Food Lovers. The amazingly rich taste of Indonesian Culinary products is recognized worldwide. 

        Rendang Padang, one of the famous traditional food from West Sumatra enrich the list of Indonesian most Phenomenon traditional foods. This traditional food has a typical taste of herbal ingredients mixed with the traditional way of cooking that can preserve the Beef Redang to be stored for a long time. You might want to check the link for more explanation. 

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352618117301270

        From West Sumatra, Let's move a bit further to Other Island in Indonesia, Bandung, West Java. Yes, we are going to talk about one of this City's well-known food.  As you can see from the picture the food we are going to talk about is "Seblak". 

        Seblak is one of the Local wisdom started in Bandung, the original variant of seblak is made of Kerupuk ( Dried Chips), with Indonesian traditional spices like shallot, garlic, aromatic ginger (kencur), and loads of Chilly blend together. to make it more not only delicious but also nutritious, some may add chopped vegetebles like cabbage or kale even carrot.

        Why is it local wisdom? because the recipes of this food are inherited generation by generation. Through words of mouth from time to time. Then it became a famous spicy food amongst the Sundanese in West Java. It is created from a family tradition, where Sundanese are mostly family people who like to stay close to the big family.

        Seblak tastes savory and occasionally very spicy, today you can find Seblak in various types of ingredients. Dried Chips, Macaronies, Kwe Tiaw, Noodles, are some of the most used basic ingredients in making seblak. Recently, in 2019 people started to create a new type of Dried food it is called Japlak. Japlak is made of  Glutinous flour called kanji. 

Japlak seblak has occupied the market of Seblak selling throughout the years until today. Teenagers of spicy foods lovers would have ordered this type of seblak. and since then seblak has been a famous spicy food with lots of different toppings. 

        Before the pandemic, you can find many Seblak Street food at markets or culinary stations in west Java. Even in villages, towns,s and big cities in Indonesia. it is modified to a more sophisticated food many times in several areas. The toppings create an expensive price out of the most.

    

        So, if one day you visit Bandung or West Java, never leave the place without tasting the variations of Seblak especially "Japlak Seblak with noddles". You won't regret every taste of it.

By. Ms Phia

Indie or Major Publisher?, Your Call

Resume    : 5th ( Ke-5)

Scehdule   : Wednesday, July 21st 2021

Topic      : Recognizing Indie Publisher

Speaker    : Mukminin.,S.Pd.,M.Pd

Moderator  : Bambang Purwnto ( Mr.Bams)

Not a good idea until it is written, and not good writing until it is published.

Ms.Phia

    Here we are, The 5th Meeting in Kelas Belajar Menulis untuk Guru PGRI, cool isn't it. Joining this class has always has been the most intriguing time for me, and maybe also for other participants. After today's meeting schedules. This Menulis class is the one I have always waited on every coming week. It's my purpose to set now.

    The Moderator today was Mr.Bams. He is a teacher from Bandung and was the moderator for the second meeting. As Om Jay informed everybody in the group about the title and the speaker also the moderator, He closed the Group for admins only. So we will be focus only on the topic of discussion today. Om Jay shared one of his post on Wijayalabs.com for us to comment on. I tried but I failed to send the comment I wrote .

    Bapak Mukminin.,S.Pd., M.Pd. was the speaker, and from what I learned from him that he is a very punctuate and Goal aimed person. Cak inin that is how he named his blog, He is actively writing in his 55 years of age.  teacher at SMP N in Lamongan East Java He also owns a publishing company named "Kamila Press Lamongan. For more details about Cak inin please click the link to his Curriculum Vitae below.  : https://cakinin.blogspot.com/2020/10/curiculum-vitae.html

Herein I enclose pictures of His Books ,

    The topic delivered is about " Recognizing An Indie Publisher" as an opening the speaker emphasized again how having motivation is respectfully a very important thing for writers. He shows some hadith related to self-motivation to strengthen his ideas.

He then gave the best steps on how to write and publish a book :

1. PreWriting :

    a. Be sensitive about current events (Paying attention to details)

    b. Creatively catch the phenomenon 

    c. Read more 

2. Drafting

3. Revising

4. Editing

5. Publishing

Recognizing Publisher; Major and Indie, Cak Inin explained that there are two types of publisher

1. Major Publisher

  

2. Indie Publisher

How to tell the differences between these two types of publishers, here are some details explained :

A. Number of Published Copies

  major Publisher:.

 Major Publisher massively publish  books with about 3000 copies of at least 1000 copies to sell in stores

Indie Publisher : 

Only publish requested copies or they call it Print on Demand.

B. Choices of Published Scripts

Major: have very strict rules before a book is published. Due to also concern on the market trends and the high number of rejections.

Indie: Never rejected a script. As long as the script is worth publishing.

C.Professionalism

Major: Strictly professional and backed up by excellent resources and big companies.

Indie: Also professional but with fewer rules compare to major.

D. Publishing Schedule

Major: A script is accepted, and will be confirmed within more and less 1 to 3 months. there are many steps and fulfilments in major publishers it can also take years to be published.

Indie: script, with suitable rules directly, go published in the count of weeks.

 E. Profit Sharing ( Royalties)

Major: They determined to only give 10% of profit-sharing from the total selling profit.

Indie: Generally they will share about 15 to 20% shares from book price.

F. Publishing Cost.

Major: Published for free

Indie: In terms of payment depends on managements policy.

    Enhancing the topic, Cak Inin also introduced his own indie Publishing company, there is Three publishing company that is under Om Jay's Auspices. The speaker also showed some books that are pub; posted earlier by Kamila Press. I only enclose a small part of the book title in the pictures below

    After Giving full samples and knowledge to the participants about the types of publishers and books that are being published by Kamila press, he then gave contacts and a price list of book publishing at his current publishing company.

    If any of you are interested to publish books with indie publishers, you can contact directly to this number -0813309044498. and here are the details of Price along with the copies number for publishing  Kamila Press

    Today again my horizon has gotten bigger and wider for me to explore. I have written many starting from stories, and journals but was still too not confident to publish them since I have been rejected by one major publisher a few years ago.

    I will start to fix my writings today and hopefully will soon start contacting Kamila Press to publish my book. My confidence has gone up so high that I am positive now, publishing what I have written into books is the best thing a writer should do. no hesitation has blocked me again. 

    Wrapping up beside that you have to motivate yourself, make friends with great people, find a great deal to finally be a complete writer. A publisher. Write today publish tomorrow and Indie Publisher is my best partner.