Gondang Sugar Museum, The Only One In Southeast Asia
The only one in Southeast Asia
Klaten community should feel proud of the existence of this new Gondang Sugar Museum. Because this museum is the only one in Southeast Asia. The existence of this museum show that the sugar industry in the archipelago had reached its heyday, even once the world's largest.
The location of the museum is very strategic because it is exactly the edge of the main road / highway that connects the city of Yogyakarta and Solo. If you pass away on the Klaten-Jogjakarta Street, please keep on eye to a big factory alongside the street. The building has big yard, looks like oldest than the neighborhood, sometimes you can see smoke out from a big flue inside. The museum located on the east of the sugar factory. It was built in 1986 in order to celebrate 19th International Society of Sugar Cane Technology. On the yard, you can see an old locomotive, named simbah or old man. It's the old locomotive, made by Germany in 19th century. The loco isn't use now in the fabric, because it needs woods as their fuel, whereas the price of wood is very expensive. The newest loco uses solar as its fuel. In the harvest season, you can see loco taking hundreds tons of sugar cane from the field southern the fabric.
Inside the fabric, there's an old steam machine that still use until now, made by French in 1884. People said that the highest quality sugar is produced by the old steam machine. If you want take a trip on the inside fabric, the best season is on the harvest time, on May-July, that all the machines are ran to produce sugar. You can see how human and machine working together to change sugar cane into sugar.
SUGAR MUSEUM
Address
Pabrik Gula Gondang Baru
Jalan Raya Jogja - Solo Km. 25, Klaten, Indonesia
Phone. +62 272 322328
Opening Hours
Monday - Thursday & Saturday at 7.00 am - 2.00 pm.
Friday at 7.00 am - 11.00 am
Sunday at 8.00 am - 12.00 am
Entrance Ticket
International / Domestic, IDR 3.500
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