WHAT
Indonesian Tempe Movement is a nonprofit and nonpartisan campaign to increase international awareness about tempe (or tempeh) in order to promote tempe as:
#1. Natural food for health
World indigenous traditional food heritage from Indonesia
#2. Cultural identity for life-style, fashion, arts, and other unlimited development
WHY? The movement has been done voluntarily in conscious understanding of promoting tempe to the world for the following reason:
#1. Tempe is an indigenous food from Indonesia, which is good for health but covered in a paradigm of "food for the poor" as it is very affordable by Indonesian people. By bringing forward the fact of its true health benefits, the access of affordable healthy food will improve to promote national and international public health.
#2. Not only as a notable healthy food for competing in the global market, tempe's unique characteristics (its form, taste, aroma, extract, .etc) are potential for future development in various fields such as fashion, arts, furnitures, and unlimited. HOW? The movement does not belong to particular group of people, it belongs to every single individual with the same vision. Indonesian Tempe Movement works as the flag of people's movements in all fields. There are already 6 registered acitivities conducted by different organizers or communities:
a.) International Conference on Tempe 2015 (finished)
b.) International Youth Conference on Tempe 2015 (finished)
c.) Tempe Seminar in Malang (to be announced)
d.) Tempe T-shirt Design Competition (to be announced)
e.) Tempe Dish Young Chef Competition (to be announced)
f.) Tempe News Column Competition (to be announced)
g.) Tempe Photography Competition (to be announced)
LET'S REGISTER OR DISCUSS YOUR OWN IDEA HERE! WHEN? Indonesian Tempe Movement brings forward 2015 as The Year of Tempe, which was officially opened on February 15, 2015 in Yogyakarta. WHO? Indonesian Tempe Movement does not belong to any particular group of people. It belongs to every single individual with the same share of value, and encourages them to join the movement. However, the movement was initially started by Prof. Dr. F. Winarno, Wida Winarno, and Amadeus Driando Ahnan. WHERE? There is no limit of the movement activities. Please join us wherever you are!
