Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2025

What makes the palm tree the most versatile tree on earth?

 

Ripe palm fruit tree

Ripe palm fruit tree


Considering that all humans are reliant on the global ecological system, I can understand why so many people are trying to preserve it. To make life meaningful, governments are fighting against pollution and deforestation.

 

Humans have long relied on trees for the necessities of life, including food, oxygen, shelter, tools, and medicine. There is a specific tree known as the palm tree in Asia and Africa, and nothing is wasted from it.

 

The palm tree may have more products than any other tree in the world, making it a true magic tree. The tree's several products contribute significantly to local consumption and sustain the economies of many nations through exports.

 

Oil palm is grown in the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Sierra Leone in West Africa, whereas Malaysia and Indonesia provide the majority of the world's palm products.

 

Ripe palm nut fruits

Ripe palm nut fruits


How do you categorize a tree that can be used to produce candles, soap, margarine, sweeping brooms, and two types of oil, red palm oil and palm kernel oil?


A palm wine tapper on a palm tree tapping palm wine. The fermented palm wine can also be used to brew sweet-flavored moonshine.


A palm wine tapper on a palm tree tapping palm wine. The fermented palm wine can also be used to brew sweet-flavored moonshine.


Palm nut soup is made from cream extracted from palm nut fruits and is typically consumed with fufu, a mixture of pounded plantain and cassava. Most people in Ghana and Ivory Coast eat this dish. The image depicts a white woman sampling this delectable dish.


Palm nut soup is made from cream extracted from palm nut fruits and is typically consumed with fufu, a mixture of pounded plantain and cassava. Most people in Ghana and the Ivory Coast eat this dish. The image depicts a white woman sampling this delectable dish.


The palm tree is also capable of producing body lotions, lubricants, soap, margarine, and cough medicine, and because of its high temperature, goldsmiths frequently utilize the hardcover or nutshell in furnaces to melt iron ore and gold. Palm products are always available in Asian and African supermarkets. 


Two additional advantages of the palm tree are that the decaying tree offers a source of protein from the palm weevil larvae and that the dried blooms are used to repel mosquitoes. People in the Greater Accra area refer to it as "Asemlejo." They're some of the best. Packed with protein, vitamins, and minerals, they are claimed to taste like bacon when fried and have a creamy texture when raw. 


Children sweeping their compound with local brooms made from palm trees.

Children sweeping their compound with local brooms made from palm trees. 


Lastly, traditional local sweeping brooms can also be made from the branches of palm trees. Our compound is swept by brooms in both contemporary residences and communities. Other than "magic tree," what other term would I use to describe a palm tree?

 

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

WHY LINDSAY SANDIFORD WHY?


Lindsay Sandiford


Lindsay Sandiford



Like a fight against terrorism to ensure that everyone is safe from unexpected attacks by extreme and violent Muslim radicals, the same way worldwide, governments are fighting against drugs to ensure good health for its citizens.


The drug menace, destruction and its drastic effect on people have dented and inflated the medical cost of many countries in which citizens have been plagued by illegal usage of drugs. America could be one of the countries in the world with an expensive health care system.

I felt very bad after reading Lindsay Sandiford’s arrest, for allegedly smuggling cocaine worth £1.6 million into Bali, one of the Islands that make up Indonesia

What at all pushed the 56-year-old woman to involved herself in such a situation, knowing perfectly well that when caught she wouldn’t easily get out of this? At her ripe age, this is the time Lindsay should have a nice happy life but not this kind.

In Asia, drug-related crime is considered very serious and one could even face a death penalty. “People who sell drugs are wicked, greedy and have no regard for human lives. 

Therefore, when they are caught, we have no sympathy for them”. This was said by a prison warder being interviewed in a Thailand jail. “They will rot here to death”. He concluded.

The television crew showed a section of the jail that had many foreign inmates, including Africans, mostly from Nigeria. With this kind of treatment to arrested drug couriers, I wouldn’t know how  Lindsay Sandiford would survive in these brutal conditions in an Asian jail.

She covered her face as she was brought out to face the media at a press conference in Kuta, a holiday town on the Indonesian island. Has she regretted now or simply covering her face from the media? 
Her humiliation increased when she was pictured sitting at a table surrounded by packages wrapped up in brown tape as a customs official cut them open with a knife, after being stopped with the 4.7kg haul in a suitcase as she arrived in Bali on a flight from Bangkok, Thailand on May 19, according to Indonesian customs official Made Wijaya

The British government doesn’t condone or encourage its nationals involved in drug trafficking, yet its foreign mission there must negotiate with the Bali government for Lindsay to be deported to face trial on British soil. 

Britain has the power to do that because it cares about its nationals. But would Lindsay’s arrest serve as a deterrent to those that wanted a to be a millionaire overnight?

A gambler is always a gambler. He only quits gambling when he is poor. But as soon as something comes into his pocket, you will see him once again around the gambling table.

Drug trafficking is a lucrative business, until the arrival of Jesus Christ, probably, thousands would be incarcerated for drug-related offenses.