History of Palembang

History of Palembang

Palembang is the oldest city in Indonesia at least 1382 years old if based Srivijaya inscription inscription known as Notch Hill. According to the inscription which dates to the year June 16 682. At that time the ruler of Srivijaya established Wanua in the area now known as the city of Palembang. According to the topography, the city is surrounded by water, even submerged by water. The water is sourced either from rivers or swamps, rain water also. Even today there is still a city of Palembang 52.24% of land were flooded by water (data of Statistics 1990). Likely because the condition is that the ancestors of the people of this city named this city as Pa-dent in the Malay language as the word Pe Pa or appoint a place or situation, while coquettish meaning valley or low ground, valley swollen with long roots submerged in water (according to Malay dictionary), while according to the Malay-Palembang, dent or coquettish was puddle. So Palembang is a place that was flooded by water.

The condition of this nature for those ancestors became their capital Palembang to use. Water becomes a vital means of transportation, economical, efficient and got the coverage and have a high speed. In addition to natural conditions, as well as the strategic location of the city, within a single network capable of controlling traffic between the three union territories:

Highlands of West Sumatra, namely Bukit Barisan Mountains.

Foothills or piedmont area and meeting children when entering lowland rivers.

Northeastern seaboard.

Third unit area is very mementukan local factors in the formation of cultural pattern that is civilization. Local factors such as network and commodities with high frequency has been formed first and managed to encourage local people create growth pattern of high culture in South Sumatra. Local factors that make the capital Sriwijaya Palembang, which is a political and economic power in the classical era in Southeast Asia. Triumph Sriwijaya Palembang Darussalam Sultanate taken by the imperial era as a respected associate Nusantara region

Srivijaya, as well as other forms of government in Southeast Asia at that time, the form known as Port-polity. Understanding Port-polity simply began as a redistribution center, which gradually took over some form of increased progress contained in the broad spectrum. Growth center of the Polity is entreport generating additional wealth and cultural contacts. These results were obtained by local leaders. (In terms of pr Sriwijaya was datu), the result is a basis for the use of economic power and political control in Southeast Asia.

There are interesting posts from Chinese chronicles Chu-Fan-Chi, written by Chau Ju-Kua in the 14th century, tells the story of Srivijaya as follows: The country is located in the southern sea, master foreign trade traffic in the Strait. In ancient times the port using an iron chain to hold the pirates who intend evil. If any foreign boats came down the chain. Once the coast was clear again, the chain was removed. The boats that pass without a stop dipelabuhan surrounded by boats owned by the kingdom and attacked. All the crew-boat crews brave death. That is why the country into a shipping center.

Of course, many more stories, legends and even the myth of Srivijaya. Chinese sailors foreigners like Chinese, Arabs and Persians, which records all the stories perisitiwa whenever they saw and the. If the Arab sailors and Persia, describing the state of the river Musi, where Palembang is located, is like a city in Tiggris. Those described Palembang is a very large, which if entered into the city, do not stop crowing roosters bersahut-replication (in terms of the crowing cock to follow the rising sun). The stories of their journey filled with wonders 1001 nights. Chinese sailors recorded more realistic about the city of Palembang, where they see how kehiduapan city residents who live above the rafts with no taxes withheld. As for the leader of home life above ground dry colonnaded house. They spell the name of Palembang in accordance with their tongues and scripts. Palembang is called or pronounced them as Po-lin-fong or Ku-kang (meaning the old port). Having experienced the century-century heyday-7 and 9, then dikurun the 12th century Srivijaya collapse slowly. Sriwijaya's collapse, either because of competition with the kingdom in Java, with the royal battle Cola from India and last fall was inevitable after the rise of the rise of Islamic kingdoms in the archipelago. Islamic kingdoms that had a small parts of the kingdom of Srivijaya, developed into a great empire like the one in Aceh and Peninsular Malaysia.