How One Of The Rarest Salts In The World Goes From Ocean To Table | Still Standing
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- Balinese palung salt is made by harvesting seawater from Bali's beaches and evaporating the water using coconut tree trunks. We visited Kusamba village in Bali to see how a community of coastal farmers are preserving their ancient salt-making methods.
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These videos should have some way of supporting/purchasing the products being made, at fair-to-farmer prices. Would be a great way to keep these traditions alive, and increase the income for producers.
That would be awesome
This is one of my biggest complaints about these videos.
Good idea. Both the farmers and end consumers get screwed because of all the middle men with most of the products shown in these episodes
there have been a couple on groups with international online stores- i think some of the reason why we don't see these options is because they are so local to their parts of the world/international shipping would be a deterrent (plus you gotta have someone actually operate/process their online presence, which is a whole job in and of itself)
but yeah i really agree- it's such a special thing to buy something handmade- or hand harvested- especially when you get such a good look into the process like this
Any ideas?
This woman has an incredible view of life, even when facing challenges. What an inspiration!
Just another comment to get likes
she is the best
The rarest salt production seems mesmerizing to see overall. The workers have put a lot of time and effort to do their jobs efficiently.
Lol people like you crack me up
@@Gg-ij7li bigots are braindead
@@frigid.editzz Different religions exist, kristianity sees him as the son of god but also as god himself and Islam sees him as a prophet
@@Gg-ij7li not true
I wonder if the microplastics and other chemical pollutants make the salt taste any better? The oceans are all connected so that rare delicious salt that they're making. I guarantee you has plastic in it if you check.
Bless these people! She's laughing while talking about not being able to put meals on the table. That breaks my heart knowing how hard she works. And then a storm just comes along and washes away her coconut trunks. Someone needs to give these people some money. I'm broke or I surely would try and find them. We don't know how lucky we are just being born in another country.
I can't get over her positivity. She was laughing about not having money for food!
Backbreaking labor is strangely satisfying 😌 👌
Its something that the rich would not understand...
It's satisfying to receive a paycheck like this than going to work only to sit down and do nothing.
@@idontgivearatsbottom I'm sure there's plenty of things that rich people experience that you will never experience my friend LOL
@@abdul-aziezintong8311 I'd chose sitting down and do nothing any day
That's at 03:01
I admire her passion and love to her job, she looks looks like such a kind person. Kudos to her.
You can really see that she truly enjoys her work, I hope one day I can find some joy like this woman
Try farming some salt.
@@spazzypotato8325 and do fetching water with that baskets too from the sea everyday and splash it the same way they do.
It's a bit of a shame that I can't find it online to the U.S. I get that it's probably not worth shipping it here, but I love all different types of fancy salts! Looks like really big pillowy crystals which would make for a really great finishing salt for meats and chocolate.
Less then $5 for a kilo
Repent to Jesus Christ “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
Matthew 6:33 NIV
Sadly they not even know how to use phone properly and amazon in indonesia isnt really familiar for most people. Even local online shop most people still afraid to use it
My link keeps getting deleted, this is it just remove the spaces
It's like $4 CAD for a kilo
Kusamba salt is one of the best salt I've ever tried. I'm a salt lover and collect many different type of salt. It has sweet after taste and the salt is soft and melt in your mouth, yet still has the crunch of the pyramid salt. Also, the salt is quite moist in the jar I keep, but still non sticky to my fingers. Thank you the Kusamba salt farmers that remain loyal to their heritage. Your work is art ❤
Hi , where did you buy it?
For your information :
- The woman says in balinese
- The man says in indonesian
FYI 2
The translation isn’t 100% correct
Some word are translated wrong 😅
Wow! What an incredible woman. So happy and positive. Im going to pray for her. Inspirational person.
“I will pass it on if someone’s interested. If no one is interested, I will leave” is the saddest part of this video
That's what exacty I've said as well while ago. I felt so sad when I heard that line.
Whoever wrote this script is playing way too much into the "hype it up for content" style of writing, because this is just salt. Low efficiency harvesting doesn't make it better, it just means that there's less of it at the end because of outdated and poor techniques.
yea, I mean its cool to see how it used to be done, but yea, its still just salt. The biggest effect on the taste of salt is the size of the flakes, but this can be adjusted using industrial means still between brands.
Traditionally, Salt was far too expensive for the average person to afford at all which is why Salt used to be nearly as expensive as gold during the middle ages. Industrialization is always framed as a bad thing in these kinda videos, but its often making the same products but far more affordable for the average person so its no longer merely a luxury that the more wealthy alone can use.
Perhaps I'm an old naive lefty, but I prefer to think that part of the point of these videos is to show the heartbreaking poverty and massive physical labor behind a lot of the "artisan" things wealthier people consume.
@@VeretenoVids well yea, that obviously is a problem, people in these poor cuntries are often exploited by employers looking for cheap labor, but in this specific context, how do you even fix it?
This women is self employed. She doesnt work for anyone else, she makes her own product and sells it.
Her income comes directly from people buying her own product. There is no way to increase her income without the government literally stepping in and subsidizing her or something, which doesnt even make sense why you would subside an obsolete practice, when far better and more efficient methods already exist.
Now, if she was working for a company and being paid dirt poor wages while the company was making bank off selling "luxury goods" like many of these other videos, then yea, id totally agree with you. But that is not the case in this video.
The reality of the situation this time is just someone who is doing work they love, but ultimately its not very productive or valuable labor when compared to modern industry which is why she doesnt make very much money, because the product she produces just isnt worth very much. Even with it selling at $2 per kilo (compared to normal salt being like 20 cents per kilo), the method of producing it is so grossly inefficient that she isnt going to make very much money at the end of the day.
There really is no fixing it. This method of salt production just really has no reason to exist other than because its "traditional" and some people like the idea of "traditional" products.
It's not just salt. There are many different types of salt.... Get educated
Ive tried this kusamba salt. Its taste mild and have rougher grain. The perfect way to eat this is by mixed the salt with chillies, and eat this with pork skewer. So perfect.
Repent to Jesus Christ “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
Matthew 6:33 NIV
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I friggin love that lady. She's my new best friend if I ever get down to her county. I just love her comments and facial expressions.
It's so engaging to watch such fascinating skilled workers. This is so much the opposite of an office job and being online
Hope Government can give them more facility and way to be more famous. I heard that even Japan also import their Salt because of the natural process and it's nutrition content. Hopefully they will sustain the business and Culture of making traditional salt, with some improvement for increase output 🙏🏻
I love these rare salt videos. I would suggest doing one for Asin Tibuok or Dinosaur Egg salt from the Philippines. It has a very interesting way of making.
Wow fancy seeing Nnp here
@@nicedurians tend to watch these kinds of videos while eating.
Never heard of this as indonesian myself tho, definitly gonna check it out!
Repent to Jesus Christ “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
Matthew 6:33 NIV
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What are you doing here budok
I'm a bit saddened by the topic about Salt or we are called 'garam dapur'. We import quite a lot of salt from abroad, even Indonesia is a maritime country. The weather factor also has a big role in why salt production in Indonesia has experienced many crop failures. Continuous rain due to the influence of La Nina hampered salt production and significantly reduced the production value.
FYI, based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), Indonesia's salt import volume reached 2.83 million tonnes with a value of US$107.5 million in 2021 or around IDR 1.5 trillion (assuming the exchange rate on December 31, 2021 was IDR 14,197 per US$).
The high import of salt is due to, among others:
1. Salt from home made production has not been able to meet the specifications for industrial salt needs.
2. The land area for salt production is still limited because not all areas of Indonesia are suitable for salt production.
3. Even though it is located on the equator, some areas of Indonesia are often colored by clouds/overcast.
IDR 1.5 trillion for 2.83 million tonnes. Correct me if I was wrong, isn't that Rp503/kg? That's super cheap for salt.
yup that weather (cant predictable(when say sun, it's raining hole off a day)) and quality up and down cant same quality at the time
4. Indonesia imports industrial grade salt.
Which is more salty than food grade salt. As she said in the video, her ocean made salt is less salty. Industrial grade salt usually mined from salt mine which Indonesia don't have.
But also there is..
5. Cartel and corruption.
Ex Fishery Minister have said that we have mafia who hoards the imported salt, then released it at harvest season of local salt farm thus reducing their price, then buy it and earn lots of profits from their misery.
Unfortunately not everybody appreciates something like this you're not just working it's magic it's art you're creating something it's a mind thing if you're not on that level you'll never understand
Or maybe everyone inherently understands whatever you're talking about to some degree, and you've just assumed they don't so that you can claim to be some kind of special magic man.
I’m the 60th liker of ur comment
Maybe I'm one of them because I don't see how this can't be done more efficiently. The method doesn't add much to the taste; rather, it's very time consuming and labor intensive. Where is the art in all of this? Where does the traditional value lie amidst the hundreds of more innovative and efficient methods?
They are the National treasures of the country. The government should give them a recognition and reward.
Respect for those hard Workers
I am a local Klungkung, and I did never appreciated Kusamba's salt. But rather than it being expensive, its because since early 2000 the government has been campaigning Iodized salt consumption, and when I was at elementary school we were told to bring our salt at home n the teacher would test it for the Iodine contents, and Kusamba salt doesnt have any. So that's my biggest reason abandoning it and use the mass produced salt ever since.
You can get iodine from other natural foods, the fish would have it.
That's actually not a bad campaign.
Iodine is an essential nutrient that most people wouldn't get enough of otherwise.
@@pewpew9193 it is. Many indonesians suffered from iodine deficiency back in the day, so almost all salts you see in the whole country is iodized and since its goverment campaign, this type of salt is what the people are currently familiar with instead of expensive, hand made salt
@@emrafighifari2675 Yea, Iodine deficiency can be a major problem, so it's good that a lot of the population is now consuming iodized salt.
I don't want to see artisans that keep culturally significant practices alive to suffer either.
Especially with the way the world has slowly been trying to turn us into one big monoculture.
Hopefully they can find a way to adapt without losing their business.
Iodized salt campaign starts on Suharto era actually.
Amazing video!
Yes they should get something back for everyone watching them. It will help some of these ppl. There videos are very interesting and educational. I enjoy watching them.
I believe in conserving culture, but there is tech that can be adapted to make life easier without necessarily going against the way people live. I can imagine how difficult it is to carry the sea water up and down from the shore. A solar powered water pump for instance could handle such a task without the pollution and its effects. Please help out with such solutions if you can, whenever you go to document.
They literally said in the piece that they haven't installed a pump as they want to continue to do it the traditional way. Let the people actually doing the job make the decisions, instead of thinking that you know best.
@@nilspatrik this would objectively be a better way to do it, but it's not the way they want to do it. It's not about knowing best in that case.
@@scottbecker4367 you say it's best only from a modern perspective. They would say their method is best as it preserves the ancient technique as closely as possible. Doing things the 'objectively better' way as you say is how traditions like these are eventually lost over time.
@@_mys those traditions are "lost" because people adopt better, more efficient ways of doing things, so it's not really losing them. It's replacing them with something better.
@@scottbecker4367 If you're replacing them, it's already losing them, it's not preserving it. Look at a modern salt factory, you wouldn't call it traditional or cultural even though they technically just made every part of the process more efficient and modern. Them doing it this specific way is what makes it so full of culture and special. You telling other cultures the 'better' way to act out their traditions is exactly why so many traditions and history have been lost over time.
Tengkyu for covering this. Regards from Bali
Best thing is even if there is no income during rainy season she is smiling 😊
It's the same method was used here in Philippines, the mere difference is we have salt ponds with air-rator for fast drying,
When he said the salt was less salty I lost it😂
I anticipated that she will add, "it's a bit sweet, and juicy, and tangy, and yet crispy. 😆
It does, actually. Because it's not pure sodium chloride.
I have one at my kitchen rack; this salt, refined salt, and Himalayan pink salt. They all have subtle difference in taste.
Refined salt is pure salty, while natural sea salt usually have a bitter aftertaste. This one have more mellow bitterness and (like they said) ‘less salty’ because there are other flavors other than pure saltiness.
That's why refined salt usually used when cooking, while natural salt usually used as dressing (sprinkled at the end) to accentuate those flavors.
Still standing is my favorite series ❤️
@Business Insider, As always, an excellent. I would ask that, as part of such "Still Standing" videos, dying cultural industries and art forms (such as the one above) often have Preservation societies and NGOs that are trying to assist the artisans, producers and their communities. Please start adding links to their sites, as well as the donation pages of such societies and NGOs, in your description.
If you are willing to promote your series, I hope you're willing to do the legwork to add helpful details to the description as well. Thanks.
You show all these dyeing crafts and traditions but NEVER leave links to where we can purchase or support - why?!
Make more videos on traditional salt making from different parts of the world.
Asin Tibuok is also a rare artisan salt from Bohol province in the Philippines. Making it using ancient techniques and now only one artisan makes it.
Your channel always provides a unique and wonderful idea of the business. Sray blessed.
Business insider❤️thanks for the constant uploads and being the amazing person that you are!
It's a company with over 500 employees.
why are these videos so interesting i would normally not care about these videos but why are these so interesting
It’s your ancestors deep down calling out….
Really wondered to see the hard work they are doing... 🙏🙏👏👏
The sad thing is that this is just sea salt. It's not like regular traditional crafts where your end product is something special. Sad to see someone degrade their body when we have much better ways of doing things that don't effect quality
It's about keeping their traditions alive. The woman in the video seems content with her work, she recognizes it's difficult labor but even she says in the video she enjoys doing it. If no one sacrifices their labor to preserve traditions humanity would lose many dying crafts and production methods.
@@Carolus_Tsang That has already started the day Al Gore invented the internet.
And people complain about working 38 hour work weeks in an air conditioned offers with benefits (leave, sick leave etc) some people need to watch this and evaluate whether they are really hard done by
I'd like to try this salt. Where could one buy some, aside from traveling to Bali? (Although that's not a bad idea either...)
yeah you can buy it from local farmer/ local store but you must say specific criteria (bali salt form region ....)
I have so much respect for these people,..I wish I could purchase their product
Iam From Bali, my village about 30 km from Kusamba and never put attention to this. Grat to see something interesting near my home village.
Balinese language still exist, matur suksma🙏
Business Insider does all these wonderful stories on these artisans throughout the world.
You are the common thread bringing these stories to viewers. Use the power of your viewers and your company. To help these people Set up an e-commerce store. I would gladly shop there!
the sea looks beautiful.
Awesome 👍😎
Incredible ❤
Intresting info 👍👍💕
I get most of my salt from Iceland and Norway, but I would love to try this one as well.
I hope you set up a website where all the items you feature can be bought by people around the world to support the old tradition to exist
That is a hard work!
kusamba, my childhood beach to visit. i miss this
Yum! The microplastics add flavor
This is very interesting, I think it'd be great if we can support this traditions
I swear I have seen about 6 videos from this channel about "the rarest salt" there was African Reed, Philippine coconut, Arabian desert... if I remember... Japanese sand and now this
they love salt
Beautiful
From a place that made to one that still is I feel ur pain.... love from BERMUDA
Only $2 per kilo!??! For all of that work? I was expecting it to be much much more. They should start looking at online sales. Americans would pay a lot more for a niche salt like this. We already pay $9 for a half kilo box of Maldon salt
well, the issue is its still just salt at the end of the day.
You can get a kilo of table salt for $0.16 to $0.20 in the US. So to pay 10x more for what is effectively the same thing is already stretching it pretty hard. Most people arent going to buy that when theyre already struggling to make bills as it is.
The ONLY people going to buy that stuff are more well off higher-middle class people who are doing it for the novelty (aka, tourist). That or local people who simply want to support local laborers.
But yea, you cant really sell it for more than $2/kilo. Thats already way out of most people's price range for salt. Sell it for any more than that, and the only people buying it will be the wealthier people once in a while cuz they think its neat or something.
I sense the love and passion she's such a hard worker both of them, they should be living large honestly I will see if I can buy this salt and help support their market and hopefully their lives can change soon people like this should be rich... sometimes I don't understand this planet
She’s definitely rich with happiness. Richer than most
That was bittersweet,
But these good people are the salt of the earth.
Thanks neighbors.
wow, amazing
not just salt, your advanced technology has added plastic as an ingredient in every food and beverage
I would buy this salt in a heartbeat. Hope they can get an export market and guaranteed protection that the product is genuine, plenty of people will pay premium prices for this salt.
Keep the commercial stuff for your dishwashers etc.
Interesting. Also important Kundalini aweking and sahajayoga meditation.
Those rocks are beautiful
she's so happy, I felt happy now
Proud it. They working morning till afternoon and they don't excuse. 🙌🏼🙌🏼💪🏼🤘🏽
Isn't there some way she could build a trench so it trickles into the salt flats, I get that it's sand and the easy erosion with sand and water, but surely there's a better way than carrying it.
God bless you!
Stay with traditional trough, it's unique. And, what makes it gold!
They should do tours and sell salt bags as a souvenir! 🤔
It’s so fluffy, I would love to try it
na miss ko ang natural na asin., very healthy.
How can be handmade sea salt more nutritionous then normal salt? It is NaCl... What nutricions? Fish poops?
minerals like potassium, calcium, and magnesium.
Sea salt isn’t just Sodium Chloride. It also has tons of micronutrients that humans need.
@@buffalojoe78 I was skeptical, so I looked it up
to my surprise sea salt is around 15% trace minerals
mostly sulfate, magnesium and some potassium
so I guess it's healthier then regular salt or not...
studies shows 90% of sea salts contains microplastics
higher concentrations near pollution sources
and it also collects in the deep sea
so that makes me unsure if sea salt is healthier or not
@@wanderingwatcher3981 microplastics are known carcinogenics so.....probably not healthier.
Especially since you can just industrially add those minerals back into mas produced salt if you REALLY wanted to. Companies usually dont because its not really worth it, but there is no reason why they couldnt.
And its not like most people have sulfate, magnesium, or potassium deficiencies anyways. And even if they do, you can just take supplement for it for super cheap with no issues.
I only know one person with a potassium deficiency, and literally all she does is just takes a supplement and thats it. So its not really a big deal.
trace nutrients
"the most natural salt" lmao
I would love to be able to buy her salt. I love the rare and unique salts.
5:36 "the natural sea salt is said to be higher in nutritional value" can business inside verify that? Or at least do a lab test and provide it alongside this video? It would be much appreciated and more informative.
it is bullshit. Salt has no nutritional value. Does not matter where it is from
It hurts to write this but the truth still needs to be said. Unfortunately many of these so called "hand-made, all natural products" be they salts, seasonings, clothings, etc, are not necessarily better than the mass produced ones. It's just they cranked up the marketing, making it seem that their product has more benefits to offer with the promise of "more natural" than the evil, chemical-laden, factory made" ones. Himalayan pink salt sometimes is able to fetch high prices because it's marketed as "better, more natural" form of salt, till you realize it doesnt take a long google search to see it's basically still a big chunk of NaCl with different mineral combimations for the pink colour that offers little or no significance. At one side, I wish the public would be more scientifically aware of the promises offered by these vendors, but on the other hand this would put millions of these most likely already poverty stricken people to lose their only income.
The only thing i know for sure, is the kusamba salt doesnt has iodine, which important, soo about the "higher nutritional value", take it with a grain of salt
I admire their determination and strength. where can you buy their salts from?
Dollar tree
Amazon? I wish there government setup website for them sell online would help them out better too and get more sales help there family out
@@Ms.SpookyLavellan right
Where can this salt be purchased in USA?
She is a real model for women empowerment. How hard she works and how humble she is
blessings of nature
Amazing salts
It is interesting how even though we have the technology to easily and cheaply make pure salt on an industrial scale, people will often go for and even pay more for salt that has all kinds of impurities, be it rock salt mined in a particular location or sea salt taken from specific waters.
The thought of "export sales" makes me think of how many people the money goes to which always increases price over time (logically understood). I'd love to travel here 4 the experience (hospitality industry provides still) AND give money directly to these salt farmers...or have it filtered to fewer hands. May the shift necessary occur to keep this tradition alive and RESPECTED. 💛💗💛
The reason I'm going to Kusamba is to honour the traditional method of salt production. To honour your culture and to enjoy the flavour of your salt. See you next week 😍
Now that I seen this I want to try.
Yes Farmer dude keep it ORGANIC!
Keep using the wooden trough method
loving this channel what they have put on it? what you like most from here?
3:01 say again 😂
Muh N-word 😆
Hope those synthetic rubber mats are food safe
I would buy that salt in a heartbeat...
Love the video. At least construction is the same for different places, y'know 6 people for a 3 person job
She is a greatest woman in the world , hardworker
We have the same traditional way of making sea salt here in Palawan Philippines except our sand is not volcanic but the sad part the younger generation has no or little interest in continuing this kind of hard work.
That salt looks delicious
.🤠.I immedietly recognize that this is homeland Bali.
Not gunna lie, that looks like a fantastic life.
Interesting