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Jakarta. Maison Weiner Block Shop has gone through World War 2, the Dutch and Japanese occupations and political unrests in the capital since the birth of the nation, and yet its tiny shop in Kwitang, Central Jakarta, remains open for customers today.

The baker has been selling fresh-broiled choux pastries, croissants, sourdough breads and other archetype European delicacies since 1936.

It'south now owned by the grandson, Heru Laksana, who maintains the gustation from the onetime recipe of his grandmother.

The grandmother founded the shop 84 years ago when Indonesia was a Dutch colony.

"My grandmother used to assist the Dutch bake their cakes. Possibly because information technology tasted good, the Dutch told her to open her own bakery," Heru, 65, told the Djakarta Earth on Fri.

"The brand was registered in 1936 and we have been using the same machine for decades now. It was bought at the Gambir Marketplace, which now becomes the National Monument Park," he said.

The family unit was very serious in the business, as Heru was clean-cut for a leadership function after ii generations take passed.

He was sent to Germany after high school graduation in 1973 to larn the fine art of making European pastries. He spent 10 hours every twenty-four hour period at a local bakery and returned to Republic of indonesia as a konditor meister, the German terms for a highly adept pastry cook.

Information technology'southward one thing to become a certified patissier, it's another affair to run a audio pastry business.

Heru had no idea about running the business concern and needed his begetter's assistance to run the shop and maintain human relationship with customers.

One 24-hour interval, his grandmother presented the family unit'southward recipe orally and Heru immediately wrote downwardly every word from the 80-twelvemonth-onetime for his future reference.

In 1981, Heru got the conviction to rebuild the cake store by combining European blistering method and the local recipe he inherited from his grandmother.

His approach in the family business concern is "bake similar grandma did".

"What I learned in Deutschland was not entirely practicable hither. The temperature was non cold plenty, chocolate was however deficient, refrigerator was not skilful, and the oven was manually operated -- you must apply your mitt to check the temperature," he said.

He somehow is in charge of the business longer than his father and grandmother have been.

"The ups and downs in the business were unpredictable. What makes u.s.a. successful is the customers, we must exist able to know what they desire," Heru said.

While the shop stands the test of fourth dimension, its futurity remains a large question. Heru has not prepared a successor in the family unit.