On 22 September 2011, the site of culinary works of some young man named www.goodfoodgood.com just been published. Goodfoodgood is a food web portal presented in English and aimed at young people around the world. This site has unique characteristics, namely adminnya is a collection of five young people from around the world (America, Slovakia, India, Germany, and Indonesia). The five young people were chosen (also called "fellows") based on the selection made ​​by a European foundation named Dekeyser and Friends Foundation.

Dekeyser and Friends Foundation is a foundation that routinely create interesting projects each year and require young people from around the world to run the project. In 2011, the ongoing project is Teaching Project at Green Chimney, New York and the Culinary Project in Hamburg, Germany. For 2012, they have 2 projects to be implemented ie Football Coaching Project and Conservation Project. (More details can be found on their site, www.dekeyserandfriends.org).

Culinary In this Project, five very different people from both cultures, backgrounds, and this habit of working together to create an information medium in the form of websites about food in the form of a light and informative. In the Goodfoodgood, there is a blog post, video, recipes, and photos that contain the experience of the five "fellows" and also the various challenges that are given a mentor to them for 3 months in Hamburg. For example, they have to run the restaurant with a professional manner with cooking skills and knowledge of each is different, and also must document in the form of media and sharing his experiences in Goodfoodgood. They are not an expert or an expert cook, but they have a similar passion is their love of the culinary world.


Photo: Florence (Germany), Vendryana (Indonesia), James (USA), Kristina (Slovakia), Sohini (India)

Their backgrounds are also very different, like James (United States) he worked in a non-profit organic food market, Mandela Market Place. Sohini (India) is a journalist at a magazine in India. Kristina (Slovakia) was a vegetarian who works as a volunteer teacher. Florence (Germany) an industrial engineering student and have just set up a food foundationnya named Kulina based in Berlin. While the representatives of Indonesia, Vendryana, a student of Science and Food Technology IPB, a volunteer, and trainers in particular on food safety for the children and villagers in the area of ​​Java Island.

The fellows do all this under the guidance of their mentors is one of his famous Chef in Germany who is also active in the field of food media Mälzer named Tim. He has a very famous restaurant in Hamburg, named Bullerei, in addition to that he is also famous as an artist and host for cooking shownya "Tim Mälzer Kocht!" are routinely aired on German television station one. The goal of this project is to create a site with 5 people elected, and create a media aimed at young people around the world to give them inspiration about healthy food.


Tim Mälzer

Goodfoodgood also have a twitter account @ GFGnet that contain updates that exist on the site Goodfoodgood and also the means to interact with the followers who came from all over the world. Vendryana as the representative of Indonesia would like to invite you, who are concerned with the existence of the culinary culture of Indonesia to introduce more Indonesian food to the international world through Goodfoodgood or share your culinary experiences in general.

Vendryana following explanation: "We welcome ideas, recipes, or experiences of friends who have more love of the culinary world to participate in Goodfoodgood. Our goal invite friends, so that young people all over the world can get access to information about food, especially foods that are healthy, delicious, and easy to make. In addition, behind all this, I want the world to know how the diversity of the culinary world and how rich Indonesia Indonesia with all its unique natural resources and unique. We are also waiting for once there is a post about the foods unique or unique raw materials from Indonesia. So we both learned here, both from the GFG team and readers. This is just the beginning, hopefully in the future could be smooth. "
Want to know more about the journey and experience of international fellows in the fifth over in Hamburg? Follow along their stories in http://www.goodfoodgood.com, follow them on twitter @ GFGnet, and facebook fan page: goodfoodgood.

Pemerintah mengumumkan, per 31 Mei 2011, memiliki utang US$ 201,07 miliar atau Rp1.716 triliun dengan kurs Rp8.537 per dolar AS. Utang ini melonjak dibandingkan posisi akhir 2010, yang tercatat Rp1.676 triliun.

Dalam data Direktorat Jenderal Pengelolaan Utang Kementerian Keuangan, utang tersebut lebih dari setengahnya dalam bentuk Surat Berharga Negara.

"Proporsi pinjaman luar negeri sebesar 34 persen, sedangkan SBN 65,7 persen," tulis keterangan itu.

Bila dilihat dari mata uang, utang tersebut mayoritas dalam bentuk dolar AS, kecuali SBN rupiah yang nilainya Rp955 triliun atau setara US$112 miliar. "Catatan ini merupakan angka sangat sementara."

Sejak 2006, outstanding utang per 31 Mei ini merupakan tertinggi. Pada 2006, utang pemerintah hanya US$144 miliar (Rp1.302 triliun dengan kurs saat itu Rp9.020 per dolar AS), dan pada 2007 naik lagi menjadi US$147 miliar (Rp1.389 triliun).

Sementara pada 2008 menjadi U$149 miliar (Rp1.636 triliun), pada 2009 US$169 miliar (Rp1.590 triliun), dan pada 2010 naik menjadi US$186 miliar atau Rp1.676 triliun.