Ancient shipwrecks found

BY NELSON BENJAMIN AND ROYCE CHEAH SINGAPORE: 
Sunday July 30, 2006

Three shipwrecks including one resembling a Portuguese warship have been discovered in the Straits of Malacca. Well-knownAustralian maritime archaeologist Dr Michael Flecker, who has carriedout more than 100 explorations in numerous countries around the region,made the latest discovery during a blanket survey along the Straitslast year. “At one location, I have found two vessels lyingside by side,” said Dr Flecker, who was reluctant to reveal the actuallocation to prevent looting.

Aceh - Dutch war in pictures

Cornelis Eduard Maier (1893-1943) was executed by firing squad in the Japanese concentration camp in Palembang, 9 November 1943

His wife, Greta Linda Maier-Goossens (1895-1945), died of dysentry in Japanese concentration camp in Lubuk Linggau, 13 August 1945

Acehnese pistol from the Ottoman

Ottoman Turkish Flintlock Kubur Pistol 1750

Batu Aceh, Aceh Stone (Batee Aceh

Di samping kesatuannya, Dunia Islam menunjukkan keaneka-ragamnya melalui ciri-ciri yang dihasilkan oleh sesuatu masyarakat pada satu zaman tertentu. Di antara ciri-ciri ini terdapat hasil kesenian berkaitan dengan kematian, yaitu batu nisan. Di antara batu nisan Islam yang terawal di Asia Tenggara terdapat satu golongan yang disebut “batu Aceh,”[1] karena diduga hasil suatu tradisi yang berasal dari bagian utara Sumatra. Golongan ini dapat dibedakan dari batu nisan lain berdasarkan atas bahan, bentuk, dan hiasan. Sampai sekarang, “batu Aceh” paling tua yang tahunnya dapat dipastikan adalah batu nisan Sultan Malik al-Salih, sultan yang pertama memerintah kerajaan Samudra-Pasai di timur laut Sumatra, berangka tahun 1297 M (Ramadhan 696 H).

The last Portuguese-Acehnese of Lamno

By: Aboeprijadi Santoso, Contributor the Jakarta Post/Lamno, Aceh

Hundreds of Acehnese men, women and children of mixed Portuguese origin were swept away by the tsunami last December.

They were the last remaining descendants of Portuguese-Acehnese communities in Lamno. Like the "depoks" (residential areas) of mixed Dutch origin living near Jakarta, they were part and parcel of the local society.

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The Achenese Peudeueng

The Long Sword of Aceh Sumatra

By John T. Crosby 

Aceh (also referred to as Atjeh, Atjin, Acheen Achin.) is at the northern tip of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is believed to be one of the oldest kingdoms in Indonesia. Hindu and Buddist influence from India may have reached Aceh as early as the first century. sixth century A.D. Chinese chronicles. spoke of a kingdom on the northern tip of Sumatra named Po-Li. It is believed that Islam likely first entered the Indonesian archipelago through Aceh sometime between the 8^th and 12^th century. In 1292, Marco Polo, on his epic voyage from China visited Sumatra on his way to Persia and reported that in the northern part of the island there were at least six busy trading ports including Perlak, Samudera and lambri. With a past like this it is not surprising that their weapons have Hindu, Buddist, Chinese and Islamic influence.

Aceh war archive

ARSIP-ARSIP SEJARAH ACEH

DEKLARASI PERANG ACEH DI MEDIA LONDON TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES, 1873, wrote:

This event hat attracted powerful world-wide attention. President Ulysses S.Grant of the United States issued his famous ´Proclamation of Impartial Neutrality´ in this war between Holland and Acheh. President Grant then sent following message to the Congress: “Official information is being received from the Dutch Government of a state of war between the King of the Netherlands and the Sultan of Acheh. The officer of the US who were near the seat of the war were instructed to observe impartial neutrality.” (Messages and Papers of the Presidents, p.4192)

Kampung Bitai, Banda Aceh

Anthony Reid, “Sixteenth Century Turkish Influence In Western Indonesia” dlm Journal of South-East Asian History, jil. 10, No. 3 1969, hlm 398. Menurut C. Snouck Hurgronje, (The Achehnese. vol II. Translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1906, hlm. 209) bahawa perkataan Bitai dalam bahasa Aceh adalah berasal dari perkataan Baitulmuqadis yang diringkaskan kerana pengasas zawiyah Bitai adalah berasal keturunan Syria-Turki Menurut Allahyarham Abu Dahlan al-Fairusy al-Baghdady (Temubual, 2005, Perpustakaan Kuno Zawiyah Tanoh Abee, Sileummum, Aceh Besar 2hb. Feb) zawiyah Bitai dipimpin oleh keturunan orang Palestin yang berasal dari darah campuran Syria-Turki dari susurgalur keturunan Rasulullah s.a.w. Pemerhatian di lapangan telah menemukan keseluruhan zawiyah ini hancur akibat tsunami pada 26hb Dis 2004 meyebabkan tidak dapat data yang lengkap darinya. Yang selamat hanya salah seorang anak perempuan dari keturunan Abu Bitai dan kini dipelihara oleh al-Marhum Abu Dahlan sebagai anak angkat.

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Aceh - American pepper trading

The earliest American millionaires,operating out of Salem, Massachusetts, amassed their fortunes by going across the Pacific in the late eighteenth century to buy Acehnese pepper, bypassing Dutch blockades between Aceh and Malabar (Phillips 1949)

THE ACEH CODE

Hasil penelitian Tan Sri Dato' Sri Sanusi Junid
Mantan Presiden UIAM, Menteri Besar Kedah, Meteri Pertanian, Menteri Luar Bandar,dan Menteri Kemajuan Wilayah

TRANSLITERASI MANUSKRIP DARI KERAJAAN ISLAM ACEH BANDAR DARUSSALAM

KEWAJIBAN RAKYAT KERAJAAN ISLAM ACEH BANDAR DARUSSALAM

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Amma ba’du

Maka inilah pohon kerajaan Aceh Bandar Darussalam.

Mulai terdiri Kerajaan Aceh Bandar Darussalam iaitu pada tahun 913 Hijriah pada tanggal 12 Rabi’ul Awwal hari Ahad;

Atas nama yang berbangsawan bangsa Aceh iaitu Paduka Seri Sultan Alauddin Johan Ali Ibrahim Mughayat Syah Johan Berdaulat.

Maka pohon kerajaan mulai tersusun oleh yang berbangsawan tersebut hingga sampai pada kerajaan puteranya yang kuat iaitu Paduka Seri Sultan Alauddin Mahmud Al-Qahhar Ali Riayat Syah;

Kemudian hingga sampai pada masa kerajaan cicitnya iaitu Raja yang lang-gemilang gagah perkasa yang masyhur al-mulaqab Paduka Seri Sultan Al-Mukarram Sultan Alauddin Mahkota Alam Iskandar Muda Perkasa Alam Syah Johan Berdaulat Zilullah Fil Alam;

Iaitu telah ijmak keputusan sabda muafakat Kerajaan Aceh Bandar Darussalam beserta alim ulamak dan hulubalang dan menteri-menteri;

Iaitu telah ditetapkan dia dan telah didaftarkan dan iaitu dengan sahih sah dan muktamad dengan memberitahu dan diperintahkan dia dengan mengikut dan menurut menjalankan dan melaksanakan oleh seluruh pegawai-pegawai Kerajaan Aceh Bandar Darussalam dan jajahan takluknya iaitu diwajib kifayahkan diatas seluruh rakyat Aceh Bandar Darussalam dan jajahan takluknya.

Bahawasanya kita semuanya satu negeri bernama Aceh dan berbangsa Aceh dan berbahasa Aceh dan kerajaan Aceh dan alam Aceh;

Yakni satu negeri satu bangsa dan satu kerajaan dan satu alam dan satu agama yakni Islam dengan mengikut syariah Nabi Muhammad SAW;

Atas jalan ahlu-Sunnah wal Jamaah dengan mengambil hukum daripada Qur’an dan Hadis Nabi dan qias dan ijmak ulamak ahlu-sunnah wal jamah;

Dengan hukum dengan adat dengan resam dengan kanun iaitu syarak Allah dan syarak Rasulullah dan syarak kami;

Aceh -Turkey relations

The Sultan says "that in days of yore allah gave the world two most powerful rulers: the prophet Sulaiman (Solomon) and  Iskandar Zulkarnain (alexander the Great). now, by His Will, in the west we are the great king, and in the east Sri Sultan Perkasa Alam (Sultan Iskandar Muda) is the king who is great and who upholds the religion of God and his prophet" - Sultan Mehmed III of the Ottoman Empire(1595-1603)

Princes (raja-raja), viziers, and pashas of the arabs,  persians, ajams and Mughals, who are present at the Sultan’s audience, hear his words, and the name of Iskandar Muda becomes famous in the whole world. (VLADIMIR BRAGINSKY)

Habib Abd Rahman al-Zahir, a Hadrami Acehnese diplomat,

Extracted from Empire through Diasporic Eyes:A View from the Other Boat, by:ENGSENG HO (Harvard University)



In the thirty-year war of conquest launched by the Dutch against Aceh in Sumatra in the late nineteenth century, a Hadrami leader figured prominently. Born in Hadramawt in 1833, Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad al-Zahir was taken to Malabar in India at the age of two, then educated in the Islamic sciences empire through diasporic eyes in Egypt and Mecca.

He returned to India as a young man, began trading between India and Arabia as supercargo on his wealthy father’s ship, and married in Malabar. He visited Turkey, Italy, Germany, and France. Like the mid-nineteenth century founders of the three Hadrami sultanates (Kathiri, Qa ayti, Kasa-di), he commanded troops on feudal commission as Jamadar for the Nizam of Hyderabad (Aka ¯sha 1985). But he was footloose, set up shop and villa in Calcutta as a successful goldsmith, shuttled between Bombay, Hyderabad, and Calicut, and found service with the Westernizing sultan of Johor in Malaya.

In 1864, he finally went to Aceh, where his superiority in religious learning was quickly made apparent, and he became a leading jurist and administrator, marrying the sister of a senior minister, the widow of Sultan Ali Iskandar Shah. He streamlined taxation and organized cooperative efforts to build large central mosques and public works. He gained the ear of the sultan and became regent when the latter died, holding the reins of state in his hands.