Confectioners aim for record

Confectioners aim for record

YOGYAKARTA (JP): Twenty-one producers and sellers of a local
sweet delicacy of peanuts and palm sugar in Kaliurang hope to
make it into The Guinness Book of Records after they demonstrated
the making of the first ever 102-meter-long snack.

Known as ampyang (peanut brittle), the extra large snack was
processed Sunday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 afternoon. The finished
piece was 20 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters thick.

It was then cut up and sold to onlookers for Rp 20,000 per 50
cm.

Officials of the Semarang-based Indonesian Museum of Records
were at the scene to witness the record attempt. They said the
feat would be marked as the museum's 345th record breaker.

Organizers Purwo and his wife said in the Kaliurang resort 28
kilometers north of Yogyakarta that up to Rp 5 million was used
in the record attempt.

Christian Awuy, a local tourist official said the snack used
up to 700 kilograms of peanuts, 500 kilos of palm sugar, 300
kilos of sugar, and 30 kilos of ginger.

Mrs. Purwo told The Jakarta Post and the Bernas local daily
that initially they feared the project would fail. "We were
worried because producers have different ways of making ampyang,
but finally the different techniques could be overcome," she
said.

The attraction was designed to promote tourism, which has
slumped in the cool resort. Ampyang is usually sold here for up
to Rp 4,000 for 10 pieces of the bite-size snack. (23/44)