Travelers, Fortress Vastnburg Needs Our Attention!

The travelers  who visit Yogyakarta certainly familiar with Vredeburg a fort of  Dutch Colonial Government Era in Malioboro. Actuially Surakarta has the same one, Vastnburg Fort. Unfortunately Fortress Vastnburg  not get attention from government of Surakarta. This invaluable  historical site is abandoned and neglected. The Vastnburg fort  current ownership is in the hands businessman who wants to build a hotel on the grounds of the historic fort.

Vastenburg fort is the Dutch fort that was established in 1745. In the Dutch colonial era, the castle which is only half a mile from the palace,  is the surveillance place for the king of Surakarta. Meanwhile, across the castle there are the Dutch governor at that Baron Van Imhoft. Vastenburg fort ramparts square shape, each end there is a protrusion of the room, surrounded by a moat as well as protection. At the front and rear doors are also built bridges, as a means to enter and exit the castle.

The fortress is located in the city of Solo, not far from City Hall, Bank Indonesia, Pasar Gede, Kraton Surakarta and the other building. While there is a building in which the activities of the military barracks. While in the middle there is a large field for preparation and military training facilities.

The Wall that was so  solid long time ago, now looks porous mossy and overgrown weeds. Some of the buildings once used as military activities, also gone. Protective moat, now are in poor, dirty conditions, full of trash. All around the castle and almost invisible, because it filled a wild trees and shrubs.

The observers of cultural heritage kept asking Solo city government to rescue this cultural heritage sites. Although it is not easy for Solo City Government is to deal with the owner of the castle, who wants to make the land as a commercial building or a five-star hotel, they must try their best to save this fort.

The existence of the fort Vastenburg is not just historical heritage, but also inherent in the city's history. As well as the castle fortress Vredeburg in Yogyakarta, Solo Vastenburg even must be remembered as a part of  Indonesia history.

Through this blog post I really want to inspire our awareness to take care the existence of  this  historical  fort in the city of Surakarta. Anyone who had stopped to read this blog may want to contemplate for a moment after reading this, and then we could take a stand for the slightest act to keep the historic building sustainability Vastenburg fort in Solo. We must fight for it.

Learning The History Of Human Civilization in Sangiran Museum

Travelling Solo really give satisfaction to you. In addition to cultural tourism, batik solo, the Mangkunegara Palace, Solo   also has a place where you can learn about the history of early human civilization. Sangiran Museum is the archaeological museum in  with 13,809 ollection of fossils and relics of the age of dinosaurs.

Sangiran Museum is Asia's most complete archaeological museum. Most of the collection can be found at Asia's largest archaeological museum include ancient human fossils Pithecantropus erectus, Pithecantropus erectus, Pithecantropus mojokertensis, Meganthropus paleojavanicus, Homo soloensis, Europe Homo neanderthal, Asia  Homo neanderthal , dan Homo sapiens.. There are also fossils of ancient animals like Mastodon sp ancient elephant, tiger Felis paleojavanica, Rhinocerus sondaicus rhinoceros, hippopotamus Hippopotamus sp., And a number of ancient man-made hunting supplies. Fossil collection is largely derived from Sangiran, because the museum is also used as a place to hold fossils of the largest archaeological sites in Indonesia.

Sangiran Museum is located in the village of Krikilan, District Kalijambe, Sragen, Central Java, or 18 miles to the north of Solo. The museum has an area of ​​approximately 56 square kilometers.

Homo soloensis is ever settled in the area around the river of Bengawan Solo 1.5 million years ago.  Archaeological research has not revealed all the secrets of this ancient human cultures. Hominid species that lived much later, 800000-300000 years ago, is known to have created the tools.

Man  of Solo including archaic Homo erectus (archaic: old-fashioned), lived between 1.5 million and 1 million years ago, is the oldest hominid ever discovered and experienced the evolution in Indonesia. In Sangiran hominid evolution period extends for one million years. There are two types of human evolution in situ, ie archaic Homo erectus, 1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus and tipic, 300,000 years old.

Homo Soloensis fossils found in Ngandong, Blora, at Sangiran and Tigers Connect, Sragen, by Ter Haar, Oppenoorth, and Von Koenigswald in 1931-1933 from Upper Pleistocene layers. Soloensis Homo, which lived about 900,000 to 300,000 years ago. Brain volume reached 1300 cc. Koenigswald is a paleontologist and geologist Netherland origin who conducted research on hominins, including Homo erectus

According to Von Koenigswald this human has higher level than Pithecanthropus Erectus. Estimated that this creature is an evolution and Pithecanthropus Mojokertensis. By some experts, classified as Homo Neanderthalensis soloensis which is a type of Homo Sapiens from Asia, Europe, and Africa come from the Upper Pleistocene.

Sangiran is one of the valuable sites of human evolution in the world, although it is not the only one. It is rarely found elsewhere, both in Indonesia and in the world. Only in Africa and China that shows the evolution of this kind.

Sambaliung Islamic Sultanate of Old Berau

Witness the beauty of the sun set behind the mountains in the village of Long Ayap, Segah river upstream. A village in the remote area of Berau. Like the other villages in the remote area, we will witness the beauty of nature in its original form. We will never forget this experience if you come and see the authenticity of the natural in land Dayak tribes of Borneo once.

Gunung Tabur Palace

Located 120s  km from Tanjung Redep,  the capital of Berau Regency is another option offered in Berau, East Kalimantan, in addition to the beauty of the island Derawan . When you have come on the island Derawan,  it is bad if  you do not visit another interesting place.

As an old city,  Berau also has the potential on historical tours. We can follow the historical heritage of the city in past time by visiting the Royal Palace and Museum Sambaliung.  Just for you know, the kingdom of  Sambaliung is Islamic sultanate. Traces historical royal heritage Sambaliung with the last king Sultan M. Aminuddin (1902-1959). This place has a unique collection that is on the front page of two poles carved ironwood Bugis original script which is believed to be relics of the followers of Raja Alam from Bugis Wajo derivatives. According to the museum guard, characters that form the rules when the people across the palace.

Faced with Sambaliung palace, split by the River Berau, longitudinal Istana Gunung Tabur. The place can be reached in about 20 minutes over the bridge Segah or three minutes if you choose this ketinting ride, known as the Museum of Batiwakkal. Here are stored in the form of around 700 precious collection of historical objects, ceramics, objects of archaeological, ethnographic, and manuscripts. The museum was built in 1990 and inaugurated in 1992. The visitors can also see the palace residence of Princess Gunung Tabur.

A Brief History of Borneo

India and China have a strong influence on Borneo long before Europeans arrived in Borneo. This is because the trade is done by two of the nation with the of Borneo people.
Around the year 1362 under the leadership of Majapahit prime minister Gajah Mada expand its power to the island of Borneo, ie countries: Kapuas-Katingan, Sampit, Ungga City, City Waringin, Sambas, Lawai, Kadandangan, Landa, Samadang, Tirem, Sedu, Barune, Kalka , Saludung, Solot, Sand, Barito, Sawaku, Tabalong, Cape Kutei and Malano remains the most important on the island Tanjungpura.

At the time of the Dutch East Indies, Kalimantan known as Borneo. This does not mean the name Borneo is not known. In letters Tamjidillah Prince of the Kingdom of Banjar in 1857 to the Dutch resident in the island of Borneo Banjarmasin he said, not the island of Borneo. It shows that among the population, Kalimantan name better known than the name of Borneo used in the Dutch East Indies colonial administration. Name Kalimantan again became popular in the years around 1940's in  United States of Indonesia era.

But it eventually colonize Europe and formed the province's modern history. In the early 17th century,
Kalimantan become an arena of conflict between Britain and the Netherlands, as if the Brit's growing pepper trade. That conflict culminated in the 1701 uprising, and the British were expelled six years later. In the 1820s Dutch Colonial has co ncluded an agreement with a small westcoast various countries, including parts of the Banjarmasin sultanate. In 1839 a private colony formation in Kuching, Sarawak, by James Brooke English, Dutch fears fueledto cement their commercial interests in Borneo. New coal mines in the South and
East Kalimantan quickly developed and the island gradually gained commercial
important. 1840's and 1850's brought some internal strife, culminating in war between the Dutch and the Banjarmasin sultanate in 1859. Dutch regained control after four years, but resistance continued until 1905