Rempah Embassy

Rempah Embassy is a public spice service agency. Using herbs and spices (rempah) as a pretext; Rempah Embassy tries to collect the stories, myths nor historical facts, and cultivate in the fresh and contemporary way. Rempah Embassy loves to chit-chat, wanders, research, experiment and brewing self-made concoction drink from the plants found in the garden or somewhere else, then bring ’em back to the public.

Majalengka is known as the city of wind because of its geographical location; from the existence of Mount Ciremai which is located in the south of Majalengka Regency. The wind blocked by the peak of Mount Ciremai then blew hard as it passed the highest mountain peak in West Java.

Majalengka in the dry season, wind speeds can reach 30 knots or 56 km per hour, for normal speeds around 15 knots. This makes Majalengka the only area in region III Cirebon (Cirebon, Majalengka, Kuningan, and Indramayu) in West Java that has the office of the Climatology and Geophysics Meterology Agency (BMKG).

Therefore, the Majalengka people need supplements to maintain their body’s condition so that they don’t get wind. Rempah Embassy processes the surrounding flowers and spices such as butterfly pea, hibiscus, ginger, lemongrass etc. to be a bodyguard supplements from colds, with natural colors produced from the extraction of these flowers.

The red, yellow and blue colors seen in the bottles that looks like a medicine bottles; reminiscent of a Dutch artists, totem of modernism who are famous for his works that always play with the compositions of red, yellow and blue; Piet Mondrian. This is breh, herb of Majalengka Mondrian.

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Ziarah Rempah (spices pilgrimage) is a long-term project to collecting and conservation the rare spices plants from the City of Majalengka. In collaboration with BKP and Misteria Majalengka, the 1st edition of spices pilgrimage is visiting the rare Maja Tree (Aegle Marmelos L / Bael Fruit –species of Ruticeae) which is quiet controversial in the history of Majalengka. This pilgrimage took place in Majasuka Village with Habib Ali Ridho Alkaff and the congregation from Duta Hijrah Kadipaten.