Showing posts with label Sumatera Selatan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sumatera Selatan. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Ampera Bridge

the idea of ​​uniting the two land in the city of Palembang "Seberang Ulu and Ilir Opposite" with the bridge, actually existed in Palembang Gemeente, 1906. When the office of Mayor of Palembang held Le Cocq de Ville, in 1924, the idea of ​​sticking it back and made a lot of effort to make it happen. However, until the term ends Le Cocq, even when the Dutch pull out of Indonesia, the project was never realized.At the time of independence, the idea of ​​sticking it back. Big City Palembang Transitional Council re proposed construction of a bridge at the time, called Bridge Musi by reference the name of the Musi River, at the plenary session which took place on October 29, 1956.

Songket

The word comes from the term songket sungkit in Malay and Indonesian language, which means "hook" or "gouging". This relates to the method of manufacture; hook and took a pinch of woven fabric, and then slipped the gold thread. [1] In addition, according to some, the word songket also be derived from the word songka, Palembang skull believed to the first time the habit of weaving with thread gold began. [2] the term menyongket means 'weave with threads of gold and silver'. Songket is a luxurious woven fabric that is usually worn during festivity, celebration or party. Songket can be worn wrapped around the body like a glove, draped across the shoulders, or as a headband or tanjak, jeweled headband. Tanjak is a kind of hat headdress made ​​of songket fabrics commonly worn by the sultans and princes and nobles Malay Sultanate. [3] According to tradition, songket only be woven by virgins or young girls: but now men also participated in weaving songket . [2] Some traditional songket patterns Sumatra has a certain meaning.

Pempek Palembang

Pempek or empek-empek Palembang is a typical food made ​​from fish and sago. Actually it is difficult to say that the center is pempek Palembang because almost all areas in South Sumatra produce.

The presentation was accompanied by a sauce pempek black brown called vinegar or cuko (Palembang language). Cuko made ​​from boiled water, then add brown sugar, shrimp, dried shrimp and crushed chili, garlic, and salt. For the indigenous people of Palembang, cuko than once made ​​spicy to increase appetite. But with the influx of migrants from outside the island of Sumatra, it is now widely found cuko with a sweet taste for those who do not like spicy.

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