Palm sugar (Arrenga pinnata) has many local names such as: bakjuk / bakjok (Aceh), the pattern / paula (Karo), bagot (Toba), agaton / bargat (Mandailing), anau / neluluk / nanggong (Java), palm sugar / kawung ( Sunda), Hanau (Dayak, Kalimantan), Onau (Toraja, Sulawesi), where Nawa-Nawa (Ambon, Maluku).
Many local name given to sugar palm in Indonesia. This is because the level of distribution is very broad.
Functionality sugar palm tree.
Sugar palm trees can be used both as a function of conservation, and production functions that produce various commodities, which have economic value.
Function Conservation
Sugar palm tree with the shallow and broad will be very useful to prevent soil erosion. Similarly, the leaves are quite dense and closed with a stem layer ijuk, will be very effective to arrest the decrease in rain water directly OF land.
Management and cultivated plants need to be given the sugar palm sugar palm trees have advantages in preventing soil erosion, especially in the areas of steep because the root of the plant palm sugar can achieve more than six meters into the ground, so it can grow well in the canyon, cliffs and will be very good as prevention of erosion, landslides tree.
Production Function
Root
Trunk
Trunk sugar palm often used for bridges and drainage (middleman) after the split lengthwise and taken empulurnya (or sago starch). Trunk palm sugar can also be used to galar-galar and rooftop home.
In the stem of sago palm sugar, there are (starch), which can be made of flour. How to produce sugar palm flour is not difficult. Primordial stem sugar palm cut along the 1 m, and then split empulur contained in dikeruk scraper with a hatchet. In the factory, the process of empulur done with pieces of stem sugar palm split into several parts, and then empulur shredded by machines pembarut. Next empulur results pemarutan was squeezed-remas with water that flows to shelter tanks and the waste is removed. In the container vessel, the starch will settle. After all the starch sugar palm sediment, swimming (vessel) and dried starch taken. Starch sugar palm, which is still wet dried up dry flour and sugar palm is a fine or aci kawung (Sunda).
Leaves
Young leaves, leaf and bone sheath leaves, can also be used for wrapping cigarettes, palm leaf rib and broom the bottle cap as a substitute for cork.
In rural areas, meat or cork from the midrib leaves many palm sugar is used as material of making children's toys such as car-mobilan. In addition, both also used as a plug bottles, the channel water from metal or bamboo, and others. Midrib leaves with a dry sugar palm leaves many residents used as firewood. Abunya are often used as a healer of the population injured, the traditional powder, and also for the fertilizer plant for minerals that contain high enough.
Midrib leaves are also often used for garden tools bearer results.
Interest
Flower stalks when cut will result in liquid form roomie that contain glucose and can be processed into palm sugar or palm wine (Steenis et.al., 1975).
Tassel
Interest male or sugar palm langrai (Sunda), usually obtained after the cut flower stalks to disadap niranya. This interest can be used to feed livestock, especially cattle goats.
Fruits
When the sugar palm fruit that has not cut too mature, it will be visible bijinya flexible clear white (clear). This is the meat of seeds called fro and can be used as feed material.
Fro have long known of the Indonesian people. At the fasting month, the demand fro jumped very sharply. Islamic religious community that often makes fro as the typical menu in the fasting month. Both as food for the fast breeder or light meal after tarawih prayer.
Price and fro in the month of fasting is also more expensive compared to other months. In 1992, the average price fro Rp 500.00 / kg, while in the month of fasting between Rp 1000.00 - 2000.00 Rp / kg.
Market prospects Kolang-refinery is also quite bright as export commodities. Indonesia has been exporting Come forth since the 1970s and continued until now. Countries buyers fro Indonesia for the United States, among others, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and several European countries of the area.
Fro many materials used as a mixture of party-type food and beverages. Among others in making the compote, round, ice jumbo, cake, beverage cans, mixed ice, candy, and others. Even the community of West Java, which has a special form of bajigur drinks, always add to and fro in it.
If the Sudanese people calling fro with caruluk or cangkaleng, the residents of Jakarta call atep fruit. May be so, the emergence of a fruit atep because ijuk plant is normally used for the roof of the building. Along with the growing field of Upa-Food, now also appear various food products that use new and fro as a material, namely prestige and forth, forth-fed, and fro berjuruh.
Fro in addition to the material can be used for mixing various food and beverage, the content seratnya also good for health. Fiber fro and fiber from other food materials into the body causing the defecation regularly, so it can prevent obesity or obesity, coronary heart disease, colon cancer, and diabetes.
Ijuk or Black Fiber
Palm sugar plant looks hideous because stem-covered by the plume of black called ijuk. Ijuk the form of fiber-fiber is attached to the stems around the base of midrib leaves.
The decreasing sugar palm trees in the past few years, also recognized by the craftsmen, or if penyisir in various areas. Even the ijuk was forced to find palm sugar plant to a more remote location of the factory ijuknya.
Ijuk is a lot of materials that are used for various purposes. Among other raw materials for wicker, such as ropes, brooms, brushes, decorations, traditional roof of the house, septik tank, and others. The roof is made from sugar palm ijuk resistance appeared to have more than 10 years and is not suitable because ijuk be able to splash rain water that swift.
Ijuk in the palm sugar, there are also a kind of palm leaf rib that hard once called harupat (Sudanese) In the first period, palm leaf rib is used as a pen to write letters in Arabic and West Sumatra, the tool is called Kalam. Kalam word comes from the Arab language, which means the tools to write.
Later ijuk sugar palm many also used as a seat cushion material and the seats of motor vehicles. In addition, ijik also be used as materials in the soundproof recording studio and building performance, the engine boiler heat insulator, and as additional materials to make the field of sports.
Ijuk export development in Indonesia between the years 1987 - 1991 can be seen in the table 10. The countries that during this ijuk importer in Indonesia including the United States, Inggaris, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Australia stated Arabia, France and the Netherlands.
Umbut
Umbut that there are at the top of palm sugar can be eaten lanngsung. But will more favor when processed or cooked first and then mixed with other food.
Root
The root of sugar palm can be used to craft the material in the form of wicker material and making scourge.
Traditional medicine
Certain parts of the plant palm sugar can also be used as traditional medicines. With the ingredients to make a root and stem of sugar palm trees and grass reed, the difficulty to defecate away. How, this herb is boiled and drunk the water.
Palm wine from the fermentation results roomie palm sugar is also useful as menstruation zest. In addition, drink palm wine roomie is powerful enough to fight pneumonia and mejan. Palm sugar itself often involved in the traditional herb medicine, and he has the property as a drug fever and stomach pain.
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