Cookery With a Difference

A resident of Banyumas claims to have invented water-fueled stoves. In Central Java and Yogyakarta the creation is still considered controversial.

April 17, 2007

THERE have been recurrent phone calls in the house of Suparmin Sinuang Raharjo in the last few weeks. Callers generally have the same purpose: to order stoves of his own design. Over a dozen orders are placed daily. People ranging from entrepreneurs to herbal medicine sellers are all very much eager to bring home the stoves promised to be really energy-saving. A housewife, for instance, rode her motorbike from Magelang while carrying Rp3 million

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