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

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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.

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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)