We should be grateful for God's blessing that the diversity of Indonesian has brought vast variety of cuisines. Comprising hundreds of ethnicities, Indonesia offers various tasty and appetizing traditional foods. Indonesia with all its cuisine richness probably is a heaven for food lovers. However, modernization and globalization have brought threat as well as opportunity on those traditional foods subsistence. Recent trend shows new lifestyle of consuming western fast foods in place of traditional foods. Nevertheless, it's also quite a widely opened chance to promote Indonesian foods internationally. 

Aimed at continuing effort to promote those foods, the Directorate General of Post and Telecommunication issues stamp series called "Indonesian Traditional Foods" on 6 July 2007 depicting four traditional foods i.e. Roti Cane from Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Soto Kudus from Central Java, Ikan Air Garam from Maluku and Gecok from West Nusa Tenggara. The stamp series consists of four designs created by ArCom with Ardelia Johan as foods stylist.

TECHNICAL DETAIL

STAMPS

Classification of issuance : Special Stamps

Product code        : 071106

Issue Date            : 6 July 2007

Designs & Denominations : 1/4 Roti Cane and Kari Kambing (Nangroe Aceh Darussalam) Rp 1,500.00

                                          2/4  Soto Kudus (Central Java)  Rp 1,500.00

                                           3/4 Gecok (West Nusa Tenggara) Rp 1,500.00

                                          4/4 Ikan Air Garam (Maluku) Rp 1,500.00

Size                      : 41.06 mm x 25.31 mm 

Perforations          : 12.75 x 13.50

Sheet composition : 20 pieces (5x4) 

Price Per-Sheet     : Rp 30,000.00 

Colors                  : 5 colours 

Paper                    : Tullis Russel

Gum                      : PVA

Printing Process     : Offset

Printing quantity     : 200,000 sets

Designer                : Arcom

Food Stylist           : Ardelia Johan

Printer                   : PT. AMG Security Printing  

FIRST DAY COVER (FDC)

Product code     : 072106

Price    : Rp 8,000.00

Quantity Per Set : 1 pcs

Printing quantity : 5,000 sets

Designer           : Tata Sugiarta

Stamp Sales Period : 6 July 2007- 31 Desember 2010

Period of Validity For Postage : 6 July 2007 - 31 December 2012

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