Banda Aceh
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| Coordinates | 5 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 95 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
 Location of Banda Aceh
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| Country | Indonesia | ||
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Sumatera | ||
| Autonomous Province | Aceh | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-AC | ||
| surface | 61.4 km² | ||
| Residents | 260,000 | ||
| density | 4,237.3 Ew. / km² | ||
| Website | bandaacehkota.go.id | ||
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| mayor | Aminullah Usman | ||
 Great Mosque of Banda Aceh
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Banda Aceh is the capital of Aceh Province on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra . It is located on the Krueng Aceh and Krueng Daroy rivers and has about 260,000 inhabitants. Until 1945, when the Sultanate was abolished, it was called Kota Radja ( Indonesian , “royal city” or “capital”). Banda Aceh is marked by the civil war (1976 to 2005) between the militant separatist organization Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) and the Indonesian government.
The city was badly damaged by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the tsunami that followed. The northern districts on the coast were almost completely destroyed. It is estimated that more than 25,000 people were killed in Banda Aceh.
Attractions
The Baiturrahman Great Mosque ( Masjid Raya Baiturrahman ) is one of the most famous mosques in Southeast Asia. After the old mosque was completely destroyed in the war with the Netherlands, it was rebuilt in 1879. In the meantime, the building has been expanded several times. If the mosque originally had three domes, today there are seven. The architecture is based on the Indian Mughal style . The minaret in front of the mosque was built in 1995. Badly damaged, the mosque survived the tsunami in December 2004. Many people were able to save themselves from the water by taking refuge in the mosque, where the water penetrated but remained largely calm. In contrast, the tsunami left hundreds of tons of rubble and over ten thousand dead on the tree-lined square in front of the mosque.
The Aceh Museum shows the Acehnese culture, sultan's graves, including those of Sultan Iskandar Muda (1608–1636), and objects from the colonial era. Of particular interest is an original, traditionally built Acehnese house: a large stilt building decorated with carvings and paintings. Next to this rumoh Aceh hangs in a small pavilion the Cakra Donya ("world wheel"), a Chinese bell that, according to tradition, was a gift from the Chinese explorer Zheng He to the Sultan of Aceh.
Not far from the museum and mosque is the rest of the former palace gardens, the Taman Sari (water garden). Next to a walled basin stands the Gunongan , a "mountainous" ( gunungan ) whitewashed, stone structure that the Sultan Iskandar Muda, according to legend, had built for his Malaysian wife to remind her of the hills of their homeland.
Opposite is the Kerkhof, the Dutch cemetery. Here are the graves of several hundred Dutch soldiers who died in the Aceh War.
To the east of Banda Aceh lie the remains of several coastal forts that are said to be of Indian origin. West of Banda Aceh, near Lampuuk, is the house of the Acehnese / Indonesian freedom fighter Cut Nyak Dhien (1848–1908), also a traditionally built building.
traffic
The outlying port of Krueng Raya is the most important in the Aceh region. Banda Aceh also owns Sultan Iskandarmuda Airport, 15 kilometers from the city center. The only runway is 2,250 meters long and is only suitable for narrow-body aircraft such as the Boeing 737 or Airbus 320 . The Banda Aceh IATA code is BTJ.
Sports
The city's soccer club is called Persiraja Banda Aceh and has been playing in the Indonesian top division, Liga 1 , since 2020 .
Sharia Police
As in the entire Aceh region, the Sharia police in Banda Aceh watch over compliance with Sharia law (see Aceh # Human Rights ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jafar M Sidik: President: no GAM element involved in Aceh terror. Antara News , March 6, 2010, accessed on June 18, 2012 (English): “The Indonesian government and GAM signed a peace deal in Helsinki, Finland, in August 2005 to put an end to a three-decade bloody conflict in the country `s western-most province"
- ^ Tsunami Mortality Estimates and Vulnerability Mapping in Aceh, Indonesia. (PDF; 454 kB) American Journal of Public Health , 2007, accessed on September 26, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Philipp Abresch: With the baton for the Sharia. Weltspiegel , June 18, 2017, accessed June 18, 2017 .