Jalan-jalan on Palembang

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Jalan-jalan Indonesia tourism on Palembang. Palembang is the capital city of the South Sumatra province in Indonesia. Palembang is the second-largest city in Sumatra after Medan and the seventh-largest city in Indonesia.Palembang is one of the oldest cities in Indonesia, and has a history of being a capital of a maritime empire millenia ago. The city hosted the 26th edition of Southeast Asian Games from 11 to 22 November 2011 along with Jakarta. Located on the Musi River banks on the east coast of southern Sumatra island, it has an area of 400.61 square kilometres and
a population of 1.7 million.
Palembang landmarks include the Ampera bridge and the Musi River, the latter of which divides the city into two, Seberang Ilir to the kingdom of Srivijaya
, a powerful Malay kingdom, which influenced much of Southeast Asia. The earliest evidence of its existence dates from the 7th century; a Chinese monk, Yijing, wrote that he visited Srivijaya in the year 671 for 6 months. The first inscription in which the name Srivijaya appears also dates from the 7th century, namely the Kedukan Bukit Inscription around Palembang in Sumatra, dated 683.
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