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The Persevering Beauty of Aceh

TOPICSTOPICS

About Aceh

Geography

Historical Background

The Acehnese

Tourist Attractions

Located at the northwestern end of Sumatra Island often call „Serambi Mekah“ (Mecca‘s front verandah) because the dominant religiont is Islam an acronym for : Arabs, Chinese, European and Hindustans Aceh is one of the wealthy province. The natural wealth has provide a variety of valuable export commodities such as LNG, cement, fertilizers, rubber, coffee, palm oil etc

ACEH

Provincial Capital : Banda Aceh

Provincial area : 55,392 sq.km (including over

100 island)

Climate : dry season (March-Aug) rainy season (Sept-Febr)

Temperatures : 23 - 32 oC

GEOGRAPHY

Islam entered the Indonesian archipelago

and also SE Asia through Aceh

The first Islamic Kingdom of Perlak

was establish in the year 804

1292 Marcopolo visit Sumatra

1610 - 1640Aceh‘s dominant in trade

and politics in nothern parts of Sumatra

1873 - 1942The Aceh war

(costing the Dutch more than 10,000 lives)

1942The Japanase landed in Aceh

1945End of the war

Aceh decided as a full provinceof Indonesia

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

In 1511, the Portuguese seized the important

strategic port of Malacca

Populations : 4.0 Million Religions :

Moslems (97.75%)Protestant (1.5%)Catholics (0.25%)Hindus (0.02%)Budhist (0.47%)

Language : Indonesian and Aceh

The ACEHNESE

Known as fiercely independent people and are staunch Moslems

Honor each other and visitors

The Acehnese take their religion,

their manners and their morals

seriously

The ACEHNESE

Banda Aceh

Camp Daud Jerman

Natural Scenery

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

Natural Preservation

BANDA ACEH

A city of 250,000 inhabitants has many historical and religious landmark

Mesjid RayaGunongan & Pinto KhopMuseum AcehKerkhoff

One of the most beautiful mosques in Indonesiawas built by the Dutch in 1875

•MESJID RAYA BAITURRAHMAN

Man-made miniature mountain built by Sultan Iskandar Muda (1608-1636) for his wife Putro Phang (from Malaysia)

GUNONGAN & PINTO KHOP

MUSEUM ACEH

1. RUMOH ACEH

Rumoh Aceh (Aceh house) is a typical traditional house which made of wood, caived and painted in the Acehnese colours of red, white, green and black

The ornament and costumes of the people and beautiful bridal settingPelaminan Aceh (wedding throne) heavily embroidered with gold thread and sequins, on velvet

MUSEUM ACEH

2. Wedding throne

Is a big bell presented to Aceh as a gift from a Chinese emperor

MUSEUM ACEH

3. CAKRA DONYA

Kerkhoff is a Dutch military cemetery for the soldiers killed in wars (1873-1927)

KERKHOFF

Excellent beaches !–The most popular beaches are Ujong Batee, Lam Pu‘uk and Lho‘ Nga –Located about 17 km from Banda Aceh–Clean waters and white sands–The Sunsets are very impressive!

Beautiful Panorama

NATURAL SCENERY

CAMP DAUD JERMAN

Is located at the west coast of SumatraAbout 142 km of the northern Banda AcehProvide some bungalows for tourist in the near of the beach The famous bungalows are „Tree houses“

512 kinds mammals, 313 birds, 76 reptiles, 18 amphibians

Endanger species : Sumatran Tigers Other rare animals : the Forest Goat,

Orangutan, Elephant and many species monkeys

A big portion of Aceh are covered by rain forest

Gunung Leuser is the largest national park in South East Asia and the home way animals and plants that can not be found in other part of the world

NATURAL PRESERVATION

1. http://www.aceh.org

2. http:www.geocities.com/Heartland/

Shores/3811 /aceh1.htm

3. http://ise.wiwi.huberlin.de/~hizir/campeuro

ACEH‘s WEBSITE