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CULTURE
OF RIAU
Riau
is a province of Indonesia, located in the central part of the island of
Sumatera and the capital of Riau is Pekanbaru. Riau has so many good places to
visit. We can see from the others side.
The
good places of Riau such as Candi Muara Takus, Batu Pantai Nongsa, Komple
Istana Kerajaan Siak, Pantai Pasir Panjang (Pantai Trikora), Suaka Alam
Kerumutan, Pantai Tanjung Pesona, Semenanjung Senggarai and Taman Laut. Riau
have some traditional dances such as, Tari Joged Lambak, Pedang Jenawi, Tari
Pembubung, Tari Sinar, Tari Lenggang Melayu, Tari Zapin Sekampung, Tari Zapin,
Tari Zapin Kampung Melayu Pekanbaru, and Tari Riuh Tambourine. But Tari Joged
Lambak is one of popular traditional dance in Riau, it’s a social dance of
young people who are very popular and unpopular. This dance can also serve as
entertainment. When dancing, the dancers will dance with each other in
accordance with the rhtyhm of the music.
In
other hand, Selaso Jatuh Kembar is the traditional house of Riau. The house is
also often used for meetings. Riau has traditonal custome also. Teluk Belanga
is the traditional custome of Riau. A man is wearing a tight brackets ferret,
which is equipped with a cap. Underneath wear long pants in the same color
clothes. In addition to the waist wearing cloths made of woven and motifs
characteristic of Malay culture. A woman is wearing kebaya anchor brackets and
parentheses clothes bay pot. To use songket cloth or fabric choices. At the
head covered with a scarf, then lapped to the neck. Thus, the hair does not
appear and the chest closed.
News Item
RIAU’S
BURNING
The
fires in Riau spread to cover more than 850 hectares of forested land on
Friday, defying fire fighters' efforts to extinguish the flames and prompting
calls for the government to attempt to create artificial rain.
The
president ordered the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) to seed the
clouds above Riau province — a method used in the past to create artificial
rain — and drop water from agency helicopters. Three planes supplied by the
Indonesian Military (TNI) and the Agency for the Assessment and Application of
Technology (BPPT) were sent to Pekanbaru Thursday night. The president has
agreed to the strategies and demanded it gets done soon," Sutopo Purwo
Nugroho, spokesman of BNPB, said on Thursday.
Traditional
methods to extinguish the flames had failed to make a significant impact,
Raffles Panjaitan, director of forestry investigations and observation at the
Ministry of Forestry, said. The fires had reached underground peatland, making
ground-based efforts ineffective, he said. Still, the number of hotspots had
decreased by Friday afternoon, according to Zulkifli Yusuf, the head of Riau
Forestry Agency. Some of the fires have been extinguished, from 100-something
hotspots to only 23 now," Zulkifli said. "But smoke is still
blowing." Hasyim, a local community leader in Pergam village, Bengkalis,
said much of the fires were burning in a 500-hectare area communal area managed
by local farmers. Hotspots were also reported in a concession managed by
Sumatera Riang Lestari, an affiliate of Asia Pacific Resources International
Limited, Indonesia's second-largest pulp and paper company, he said. "All
the years I've been here, this is the worst forest fire we've witnessed,"
Hasyim said.
"I
guess it’s because of the high temperature. It hasn’t rained for days
now." While much of the press has focused on the haze's impact in
Singapore and Malaysia, the local residents of Riau are feeling the greater
heat. Residents have fled their homes in Bengkalis, Hasyim reported. Some 30
percent are experiencing respiratory problems. The fires have burned through
hectares of local farmland, decimating this season's crops, he added. "So
please send us rubber and oil palm seeds after this is over," he said.
"I'm also asking the government to prevent this incident from happening
again."
Discussion Text
SIAK
REGENCY
Siak
is a district in Riau Province which was once the center of Islamic sultanates in
Riau that was Siak Sri Indrapura. Any greatness heritage is still visible in
many corners of the city. Its long history has left wonderful and proud legacy
of Malay civilization for Indonesia. Siak today is increasingly attracted by
many tourists where there are many historic buildings remaining from the rest
of the Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura to the heritage buildings from Dutch
colonialization.
Numbers
of popular sited that mostly visited by tourists is Siak Palace, the Sultan
Mosque, Marhum Buantan Tomb, High Density Hall, Danau Pulau Besar, River
Tourism and Agro Tourism, Sultan Syarif Qasyim Forest Park, Pompa Anggrek
Monument and Kato Ships. By having the variety of those herigates, it makes
Siak City become one of the historical tourism sites that cannot be missed
while visiting Riau.
There
are various meanings of the word siak, some say it comes from the plant that
grow in this area, namely that siak-siak. The word Siak Sri Indrapura in
Sanskrit is derived from the word sri (glowing), sensory (king), and pura (city
or kingdom), it literally means as a devout city kingdom. Siak was originally
an area of Bengkalis which later changed its status to be a Siak su-district.
Then, in 1999 it was transformed into Siak regency, where Siak Sri Indrapura is
the capital city.
In conclusion, Siak is known as a producer of
oil with the best standards in Indonesia. This Petroleum Mine is located in the
district of Siak River and Sungai Apit and Minas that managed by PT. Chevron
and PT. Kondur Petroleum SA. Siak city has the feel of a quiet, clean, and
friendly people. One of the city's newest icons is Tengku Agung Sultanah
Latifah Bridge.
