aceh Indonesian rumbia fruit

Rumbia fruit is a fruit that grows on the land of Aceh Indonesia. Rumbiah fruit grows in moist places or in swamps, rumbia fruit is usually made by rujak spices by the people in Aceh. Rumbia fruit is sold in North Aceh for Rp. 25,000 per kg. This fruit was brought from North Aceh Regency precisely from the Sub-district of Alu ie Puteh. Much of the Rumbia fruit is produced in the western-southern region of Aceh which is very famous from Meulaboh which has been salted.

Rumbia fruit in Latin, Metroxylon sagu. Which in Aceh this fruit is called the name Boh meuria is the fruit of the sago palm, a kind of palm tree whose tree trunk can be used as sago flour. This Rumbia tree grows in the area of ​​freshwater swamps and river banks. The leaves of this tree are generally used as roofs of the house (better known in the community as the thatch roof) and the pelepak is mostly used as a material to make children's toys, as a fence and can even be used as a clothesline.

This Rumbia tree almost grows in all regions in Aceh, Indonesia, but after the earthquake and tsunami, this Rumbia fruit becomes rare. The scarcity of fruit is not only affected only by the earthquake and tsunami, but also because of the widespread occurrence of massive logging for the needs of sago flour and partly because of the conversion of land in the place where this plant grows, and sago flour can it becomes lugok, ondel, can be used as a chicken or duck bait to quickly lay eggs.