Selasa, 14 Maret 2017

KUTO BESAK FORT

       
          Talking about Tourism Destination means that we are talking about the places in each cities in order to attract tourists to visit them as tourism destination places. In Palembang, there are some places that can be tourism destination, such as Kuto Besak Fort, Ampera Bridge, Kemaro Island, Siguntang Hill, Kampung Kapitan, Agung Mosque, and so on.
          One of tourism destination places in Palembang is Kuto Besak Fort. Kuto Besak Fort is the central name of Palembang Darussalam Sutlanate. Kuto means a high wall fence in Sanskrit. This fort was built by Sultan Mahmud Badarrudin I  in 1780 and then it was continued by his grandson Sultan Mahmud Bahauddin and it waa finished by 1797. At that time, Palembang was famous as the literature central and Islam religion. The main material of this fort construction is made of the combination of the stone chalk  with the egg whites which are brought from all over areas or villages.
          It has the shape of square with 288 m in length, 183 m width, 6,20 m high, 2 m thickness, and the areal capacity is 50 hectare. This fort has been attacked for many times by the dutch colonies which was famous  in a battle in 1819 and 1821.
        The most terrifying battle was going on for 13 days in 1821. The dutch mobilizied 500 formations, 118 battleships. Although the resistance of Sultan with his citizenries was strong enough but the fort could be won by the dutch and then Sultan Mahmud Badarrudin II was arrested and isolated to Ternate (Maluku Utara) SMB II died on September 26th 1832. That's history of Kuto Besak Fort.
           Kuto Besak Fort is located not far from the Ampera bridge. It'¢ located in the central of Palembang near Agung mosque. Many people and tourists come here to see the fort. It's opened everyday. You can come into this fort with just only 5 thousand rupiah. You can see the war equipments, the heroes' attires, and so on. You can take a photoshoot here because the scenery is very good especially in the afternoon. The way how to get here is easy so you can get here by car or public transportation, motorcylce, or bycle you can choose whatever you want. So, don't forget to come here to this fort if you come to Palembang, because thia fort is very historical for Palembang people to memorize our heroes' struggle to defend this fort.
          

1 komentar:

  1. Good job Taruni. I appreciate for what you have written. However, you have to improve your structure. make sure you put the subject for each of your sentence. (SK)

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