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Balaputradeva Museum
Balaputradeva Museum (Indonesian Museum Balaputera Dewa), officially the State Museum of South Sumatra Province "Balaputradeva", is an ethnographic museum located in Southern Sumatra's capital Palembang. The museum is the state museum of the Province of South Sumatra. The name ''Balaputradeva'' is derived from Balaputra, a 9th century sovereign of Srivijaya kingdom and the former head of the Sailendra dynasty whose main center was located in the vicinity of Palembang. Balaputradeva Museum displays the history and traditions of the province of South Sumatra. Description Balaputradeva Museum is one of the so-called State Museums of Indonesia, representing each province in Indonesia. Construction of the museum started in 1978 and the building was inaugurated on 5 November 1984. The decision to name it "Balaputradeva" is based on the 9th century Indian sovereign Balaputra who was recorded in an inscription discovered in Nalanda, India. The Nalanda inscription mentions his connection wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumah Limas
Rumah means "house" or "home" in the Indonesian language. It may also refer to: * Rumah Gadang, the traditional house of Minangkabau people, Indonesia * Rumah Lanting This article is about the architecture features of Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. There are several types of traditional houses of the Banjarese: #Bubungan Tinggi #Gajah Baliku #Gajah Manyusu #Balai Laki #Balai Bini #Palimbangan ..., the traditional house of Kalimantan, Indonesia * Rumah, Riyadh, a governorate and city in Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barisan Mountains
The Bukit Barisan or the Barisan Mountains are a mountain range on the western side of Sumatra, Indonesia, covering nearly 1,700 km (1,050 mi) from the north to the south of the island. The Bukit Barisan range consists primarily of volcanoes shrouded in dense jungle cover, including Sumatran tropical pine forests on the higher slopes. The highest peak of the range is Mount Kerinci at 3,800 metres (12,467 ft). The Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park is situated towards the southern end of the range Liwa, Indonesia. The name Bukit Barisan actually means "row of hills" or "hills that make a row" in Malay, for the range stretches end to end along the island of Sumatra. There are 35 active volcanoes in Bukit Barisan. The largest volcano is the supervolcano Toba within the 100 km (62 miles) × 30 km (19 miles) Lake Toba, which was created after a caldera collapse (est. in 74,000 Before Present). The eruption is estimated to have been at level eight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnographic Museums In Indonesia
Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining the behavior of the participants in a given social situation and understanding the group members' own interpretation of such behavior. Ethnography in simple terms is a type of qualitative research where a person puts themselves in a specific community or organization in attempt to learn about their cultures from a first person point-of-view. As a form of inquiry, ethnography relies heavily on participant observation—on the researcher participating in the setting or with the people being studied, at least in some marginal role, and seeking to document, in detail, patterns of social interaction and the perspectives of participants, and to understand these in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rumah Limas
Rumah means "house" or "home" in the Indonesian language. It may also refer to: * Rumah Gadang, the traditional house of Minangkabau people, Indonesia * Rumah Lanting This article is about the architecture features of Banjar people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. There are several types of traditional houses of the Banjarese: #Bubungan Tinggi #Gajah Baliku #Gajah Manyusu #Balai Laki #Balai Bini #Palimbangan ..., the traditional house of Kalimantan, Indonesia * Rumah, Riyadh, a governorate and city in Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums And Cultural Institutions In Indonesia
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Rumah Ulu
Rumah ulu is a vernacular house found in the highland of South Sumatra, Indonesia. The house is associated with the Uluan people who reside in the region of the upstream of the Ogan and Musi River. Distribution Rumah ulu is a traditional house of people living in the upstream of Musi River, South Sumatra. The name is derived from the word , which means "upstream". The term is also used as a generalization to rural inhabitants of the mountain range of the Central Bukit Barisan in the upstream of the River. The current province of South Sumatra encompasses only a small part of the former administrative region of South Sumatra (the present ''Sumbagsel'' or Southern Region of Sumatra), consisting of the provinces of Bengkulu, Jambi, Lampung, and South Sumatra proper (the former Palembang Sultanate). With modernity, less and less rumah ulu can be found in the hinterland. No new ulu house have been constructed since the 1920s. A 200 years old ulu house is kept in the Balaputradeva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songket
''Songket'' is a ''Tenun'' fabric that belongs to the brocade family of textiles of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It is hand-woven in silk or cotton, and intricately patterned with gold or silver threads. It is hand-woven in silk or cotton, and intricately patterned with gold or silver threads. The metallic threads stand out against the background cloth to create a shimmering effect. In the weaving process the metallic threads are inserted in between the silk or cotton weft (latitudinal) threads in a technique called supplementary weft weaving technique. Songket is often associated with the Srivijaya Empire as the origin of the songket tradition, several types of popular Songket can not be separated from locations that were once under Srivijaya rule, one of the dominant locations which is also believed to be the capital of the Srivijaya Empire in the past, namely Palembang, which located in South Sumatra, Indonesia. Besides Palembang, several areas in Suma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palembang Sultanate
The Sultanate of Palembang Darussalam (كسلطانن ڤلامبڠ دارالسلام) is a sultanate in Indonesia whose capital was the city of Palembang in the southern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was proclaimed in 1659 by ''Susuhunan'' Abdurrahman (1659–1706) and dissolved by the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies on October 7, 1823. In 1825, its last ruler, Sultan Ahmad Najamuddin, was arrested and sent into exile on the island of Banda Neira in the Moluccas. History Sultan Muhammad Bahauddin (reigned 1776–1803) had Kuto Besak's palace built. In 1821, the Dutch attack Palembang again and take the city. The sultanate is dissolved and the fort of Kuto Tengkuruk shaved. The Dutch have built in its place an administrative residence which is now the Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II museum. Establishment and early records According to the story of ''Kidung Pamacangah'' and ''Babad Arya Tabanan'' it was said that a figure from Kediri named Arya Damar who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talang Tuwo Inscription
The Talang Tuo inscription is a 7th-century Srivijaya inscription discovered by Louis Constant Westenenk on 17 November 1920, on the foot of Bukit Seguntang near Palembang. This inscription tells about the establishment of the bountiful Śrīksetra park awarded by Dapunta Hyang Sri Jayanasa, Sri Jayanasa the king of Srivijaya, for the well being of all creatures. The inscription was discovered in good condition with clearly inscribed scripts. Its size is 50 cm × 80 cm. It is a stone block and it is dated from 606 Saka (corresponds to 23 March 684), written Pallava Script, Pallava script in Old Malay. The inscription consists of 14 lines. Van Ronkel and Bosch are the first scholars who translated the inscription. Their work was published in ''Acta Orientalia''. Since 1920, the inscription has been stored in National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta, under inventory number D.145. Content The writings on the Talang Tuwo inscription: Translation The translation accordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kota Kapur Inscription
Kota Kapur Inscription is an inscription discovered in western coast of Bangka Island, offcoast South Sumatra, Indonesia, by J.K. van der Meulen in December 1892. It was named after the village of the same name which is the location where this archaeological findings were discovered. This inscription is using Old Malay language written in Pallava script. It was one of the oldest surviving written evidence of ancient Malay language. The inscription dated first day of half moon Vaiśākha on the year 608 Śaka (28 February 686 CE), mentioned about the curse of whomever committed treason against Srivijaya and the beginning of Srivijayan invasion against Java. The inscription was first examined and dated by H. Kern, a Dutch epigrapher that worked for ''Bataviaasch Genootschap'' in Batavia. At first he thought that Srivijaya was the name of a king. George Cœdès noted the name on the inscriptions was that of Srivijaya, a Buddhist kingdom in 638–86, "that had just conquered the hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telaga Batu Inscription
Telaga Batu inscription is a 7th-century Srivijayan inscription discovered in Sabokingking, 3 Ilir, Ilir Timur II, Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, around the 1950s. The inscription is now displayed in National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta, with inventory number D.155. In previous years, around thirty Siddhayatra inscriptions were discovered around Southern Sumatra, all concerning the Siddhayatra journey of Dapunta Hyang Sri Jayanasa, that, according to Kedukan Bukit Inscription took place around the year 605 Saka (683 AD). Today all of these Siddhayatra inscriptions are stored in the National Museum of Indonesia. The inscription was carved on an andesite stone measuring 118 cm tall and 148 cm wide. The top of the stone is adorned with seven nāga heads, and on the lower portion, there is some kind of water spout to channel the water that was likely poured over the stone during a ceremonial allegiance ritual. The inscription was written with Pallava letters in the Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kedukan Bukit Inscription
The Kedukan Bukit inscription is an inscription discovered by the Dutchman C.J. Batenburg on 29 November 1920 at Kedukan Bukit, South Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), on the banks of Tatang River, a tributary of Musi River. It is the oldest surviving specimen of the Malay language, in a form known as Old Malay. It is a small stone of . This inscription is dated 1 May 683 CE. This inscription was written in Pallava script. Content Transliteration Modern Common Malay translation Indonesian translation English translation See also * Telaga Batu inscription * Kota Kapur Inscription * Talang Tuwo inscription * Laguna Copperplate Inscription * History of Indonesia * Timeline of Indonesian history A timeline is a display of a list of events in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events. Timelines can use any suitable scale representin ... Notes {{Reflist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
