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The Fall of Srivijaya

During the last days of Srivijaya empire, the center of power shifted to Malayu in Muaro Jambi, Jambi, and later moved upstream to Dharmasraya. After the collapse of Srivijaya, there was no major political power to control the town, however some Malay nobility families remain in town. At this time, the last Srivijaya prince, Parameswara, emerged. He tried to revive the city as an independent center of commerce once again and breaking from Majapahit overlordship. Majapahit took this action as rebellion and sent massive punitive naval expedition to Palembang. Parameswara fled to Tumasik with

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Palembang landmarks include the Ampera bridge and the Musi River, the latter of which divides the city into two, Seberang Ilir to the north and Seberang Ulu to the south. The Seberang Ilir is Palembang's economic and cultural centre and the Seberang Ulu is its political centre.

History

The city was once the capital of the ancient Buddhist kingdom of Srivijaya, which controlled a large part of what is now Indonesia, Malaysia and

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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

Krakatoa (Indonesian: Krakatau),

In February 1780, the crews of HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, on the way home after Captain James Cook's death in Hawaiʻi, stopped for a few days on Krakatoa. They found two springs on the island, one fresh water and the other hot. They described the natives who then lived on the island as "friendly" and made several sketches. (In his journal, John Ledyard calls the island "Cocoterra".)

--> Dutch activityIn 1620 the Dutch set up a naval station on the islands and somewhat later a shipyard was built. Sometime in the late 17th century an attempt was made to establish a pepper plantation on Krakatoa but the islands were generally ignored by Dutch colonial authorities. In 1809 a penal colony was established at an unspecified location which was in operation for about a decade. By the 1880s the islands were without permanent inhabitants; the nearest settlement was the nearby island of Sebesi (about 12 km away) with a population of about