 In Indonesian cuisine coconut sugar is called "gula jawa" (Javanese sugar) or "gula merah" (red sugar), while "gula aren" refers to palm sugar specifically made from aren palm.Some Indonesian foodstuffs are made with coconut sugar, including kecap manis (a sweet soya sauce) and dendeng (a meat preparation).Gula melaka is a Southeast Asian name for palm sugar or "malacca sugar", probably named for its origin in the state of Malacca, Malaysia.