Alahan Panjang

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Alahan Panjang
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Alahan Panjang
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Alahan Panjang
Coordinates: 1°04′35″S100°47′10″E / 1.07639°S 100.78611°E / -1.07639; 100.78611 Coordinates: 1°04′35″S100°47′10″E / 1.07639°S 100.78611°E / -1.07639; 100.78611
Country Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia
Province West Sumatra
Regency Solok
Kecamatan Lembah Gumanti
Time zone WIB (UTC+7)

Alahan Panjang is a village in the kecamatan of Lembah Gumanti, Solok, West Sumatra, Indonesia. The village is located on Kerinci Seblat National Park's eastern slopes, at an altitude of 1,400–1,600 metres (4,600–5,200 ft), near Mount Talang. Situated between Alahan Panjang and the other nearby major town of Muara Labuh are the subvillages of Air Dingin Barat, Alang Laweh, and Sungai Kalau II. [1]

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Economy

It lies in the valley of the same name in northern Minangkabau Highlands, producing rubber, coffee, sugarcane, yams, maize, tobacco and bananas and using a high amount of pesticides. [2] [3] [4] The area is poor, dominated by arid farming, [2] and notable wet rice production. [1] European firms have established mining exploration in parts of Alahan Panjang. [3]

History

Alahan Panjang was the stronghold of the Indonesian hero Tuanku Imam Bonjol (1772–1864). [5] After 1848, the government constructed a secondary road between Alahan Panjang and Solok, West Sumatra, located to the east. [6] Historically, tiger hunting has been a problem that threatens the predators in the area; in 1935 alone some 500 tigers were shot by local poachers. [7]

Alahan Panjang, along with Padang, Pariaman, Silungkang, Sawah Lunto, Sijinjung and Suliki, has been cited as an area which had particularly active communists in local politics. [8] The area was affected by the Alahan Panjang earthquakes in 1943.

Notable people

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  2. 1 2 Hadler, Jeffrey (2008). Muslims and Matriarchs: Cultural Resilience in Indonesia Through Jihad and Colonialism. Cornell University Press. p. 25. ISBN   978-0-8014-4697-9 . Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  3. 1 2 Scott, James C. (1984). History and Peasant Consciousness in South East Asia. National Museum of Ethnology. pp. 300, 319. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  4. ↑ Schuman, Stanley H (6 June 2005). Agromedicine: Selected Papers from the First Ten Years of The Journal of Agromedicine. Psychology Press. p. 351. ISBN   978-0-7890-2533-3 . Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  5. ↑ Holt, P. M.; Lambton, Ann K. S.; Lewis, Bernard (21 April 1977). The Cambridge History of Islam:. Cambridge University Press. pp. 166–. ISBN   978-0-521-29137-8 . Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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  7. ↑ Ellis, Richard (27 May 2005). Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine. Island Press. p. 165. ISBN   978-1-55963-532-5 . Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  8. ↑ Thomas, Lynn L. (1985). Change and Continuity in Minangkabau: Local, Regional, and Historical Perspectives on West Sumatra. Ohio University Center for International Studies. p. 228. ISBN   978-0-89680-127-1 . Retrieved 7 August 2012.
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