Travel & Destination
Jakarta
Jakarta (also DKI Jakarta), is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. It was formerly known as Sunda Kalapa (397-1527), Jayakarta (1527-1619), Batavia (1619-1942), and Djakarta (1942-1972). Located on the northwest coast of the Java Island, it has an area
of 661.52 kmē and an official population of 8,389,443 (2000[1]). Jakarta currently is the eleventh largest city in the world. Its metropolitan area is called Jabodetabek and contains more than 23 million people, and is part of an even larger Jakarta-Bandung megalopolis.
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Surabaya
Surabaya is commonly said to derive its name from the words sura or suro (shark)
and baya or boyo (crocodile), two creatures which, in a local myth, fought each
other in order to gain the title of "the strongest and most powerful animal" in the
area according to a Jayabaya prophecy. This prophecy tells about a big fight
between a giant white shark and a giant white crocodile in seizing the city upstream. Now the two animals are used as the city's logo, the two facing each other while circling the city's monument, the Heroic Monument (also known as Heroes' monument).
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Palembang
The city was once the capital of the ancient, partly Hindu partly Buddhist kingdom of Srivijaya that controlled a large part of what is now Malaysia and Indonesia. Following a 1025 raid by the Chola Empire of southern India it
began to gradually decline in importance. Srivijaya's capital eventually moved
northward to Jambi. Palembang is also the origin of Parameswara, the ruler of Malacca (a state in Malaysia)
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Pekanbaru
Pekanbaru is the capital of Riau, a province in Indonesia on the island of Sumatra. It has an area of 446.5 kmē and population of over 793,000. Located on the Siak River, which drains to the Strait of Malacca, Pekanbaru has direct access to the busy strait and was long known
as a trading port (the city name is derived from the Indonesia words of 'new market', "pekan" meaning market, and "baru" meaning new)
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