Alahan Panjang

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

Last updated March 07, 2019

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]

Solok Regency is a regency (kabupaten) of West Sumatra, Indonesia. the city of Solok is administratively separated from the Regency.

West Sumatra is a province of Indonesia. It lies on the west coast of the island of Sumatra. The latest official estimate for January 2014 shows a population of 5,098,790. West Sumatra is sub-divided into 12 regencies and seven cities. It has relatively more cities than other provinces in Indonesia, except Java province. Its capital is Padang.

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It is the world's largest island country, with more than seventeen thousand islands, and at 1,904,569 square kilometres, the 14th largest by land area and the 7th largest in combined sea and land area. With over 261 million people, it is the world's 4th most populous country as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, contains more than half of the country's population.

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]

The Minangkabau Highlands is a mountainous area in West Sumatra, around the three mountains in central Sumatra, Indonesia. It is home to the Minangkabau people who refer it as Alam Minangkabau, or "the world of Minangkabau". This area formed a kingdom known from at least the 7th century as Malayu.

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. The genus Coffea is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar, the Comoros, Mauritius, and Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Coffee plants are now cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in the equatorial regions of the Americas, Southeast Asia, Indian subcontinent, and Africa. The two most commonly grown are C. arabica and C. robusta. Once ripe, coffee berries are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor. Roasted beans are ground and then brewed with near-boiling water to produce the beverage known as coffee.

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea, and used for sugar production. It has stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in the sugar sucrose, which accumulates in the stalk internodes. The plant is two to six metres tall. All sugar cane species can interbreed and the major commercial cultivars are complex hybrids. Sugarcane belongs to the grass family Poaceae, an economically important seed plant family that includes maize, wheat, rice, and sorghum, and many forage crops.

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]

Tuanku Imam Bonjol, also known as Muhammad Syahab, Peto Syarif, and Malim Basa, was one of the most popular leaders of the Padri movement in Central Sumatra. He was declared a National Hero of Indonesia.

Tiger hunting is the capture and killing of tigers. Humans are the tigers' most significant predator, and illegal poaching is a major threat to the tigers. The Bengal tiger is the most common subspecies of tiger, constituting approximately 80% of the entire tiger population, and is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, and India has been hunted in those countries for centuries. The tiger has historically been a popular big game animal and has been hunted for prestige as well as for taking trophies. Extensive poaching has continued even after such hunting became illegal and legal protection was provided to the tiger. Now a conservation-reliant endangered species, the majority of the world's tigers live in captivity. Tigers were once considered to be harder to hunt than lions, due to their habit of living alone in dense cover and not noisily asserting their presence with roars as often.

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.

Padang is the capital of the province of West Sumatra in Indonesia. With an area of 695 square kilometres (268 sq mi) and a population of 914,970 in 2016, it is the 10th-most populated urban centres in Indonesia, the most populated city on Sumatra's western coast, and fourth-most populated city on Sumatra.

Pariaman, is a coastal city in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Pariaman has 83,151 inhabitants in 2014, an area of 73.36 km² (28 sq mi) and a 12 km (7 mi) coastline. "Pariaman" means "safe area".

Suliki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Korsze, within Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

Notable people

Andjar Asmara – (1902–1961), dramatist and filmmaker
Rohana Kudus – (1884–1972), the first female Indonesian journalist, worked in Alahan

Abisin Abbas, better known by his pseudonym Andjar Asmara, was a dramatist and filmmaker active in the cinema of the Dutch East Indies. Born in Alahan Panjang, West Sumatra, he first worked as a reporter in Batavia. He became a writer for the Padangsche Opera in Padang, where he developed a new, dialogue-centric style, which later spread throughout the region. After returning to Batavia in 1929, he spent over a year as a theatre and film critic. In 1930 he joined the Dardanella touring troupe as a writer. He went to India in an unsuccessful bid to film his stage play Dr Samsi.

Roehana Koeddoes was the first female Indonesian journalist, founder of the Sunting Melayu newspaper, and an activist for women's emancipation. Born in a village in Agam, West Sumatra, she was taught at home by her father. After learning crafts before her marriage, she became interested in teaching such skills to women and providing for their overall education. She established a school in 1911, and in 1912 founded the newspaper, intended for women. She was its chief editor.

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Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. A language of the Malays, it is spoken by 290 million people across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo. It is also used as a trading language in the southern Philippines, including the southern parts of the Zamboanga Peninsula, the Sulu Archipelago, and the southern predominantly Muslim-inhabited municipalities of Bataraza and Balabac in Palawan.

Rendang is a spicy meat dish which originated in Indonesia, especially the ethnic group of Minangkabau people, and is now commonly served across the country. One of the characteristic foods of Minangkabau culture, it is served at ceremonial occasions and to honour guests. Rendang is also served among the Malay community. Rendang is traditionally prepared by the Minangkabau community during festive occasions such as traditional ceremonies, wedding feasts and Hari Raya.

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References

1 2 Cairns, Malcolm (23 May 2007). Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming. Earthscan. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-1-891853-92-0 . Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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.
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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands) (2002). Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde. M. Nijhoff. p. 733. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
↑ 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.
↑ 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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[Cairns2007-1] 1 2 Cairns, Malcolm (23 May 2007). Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming. Earthscan. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-1-891853-92-0 . Retrieved 8 August 2012.

[Hadler2008-2] 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.

[Scott1984-3] 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.

[Schuman2005-4] 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.

[HoltLambton1977-5] 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.

[Koninklijk2002-6] Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands) (2002). Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde. M. Nijhoff. p. 733. Retrieved 8 August 2012.

[Ellis2005-7] 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.

[Thomas1985-8] 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.

Alahan Panjang
Village

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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	Indonesia
Province	West Sumatra
Regency	Solok
Kecamatan	Lembah Gumanti
Time zone	WIB (UTC+7)