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This is my story when visiting one of the cultural heritage sites in Banda Aceh. This is a cultural heritage site, including sacred and historic. When I have a vacation trip, we go with friends by car, from the city of Lhokseumawe it takes up to 5-6 hours to travel to Banda Aceh.
We visited a number of tourist sites in Banda Aceh, including a cultural heritage site that is rarely touched by people. This is one of the Dutch soldier cemeteries in Banda Aceh, this is the Kerkhof Peucut cemetery in Banda Aceh. This is a burial site for Dutch soldiers during the colonial period when the Dutch entered Aceh.
This sacred area is rarely visited by tourists, even though this tomb is close to the tourist site of the Tsunami Museum. Even though they passed the location, many of the visitors did not appear to enter this tomb area. Even when visiting here, even though many tourists park their vehicles in front of the entrance to this tomb, none of them enter this tomb complex.
As long as we were in this complex for more than an hour, there were only the four of us in the complex who went around to every corner in this tomb complex. When you have arrived at the entrance area, right in front of the gate of the tomb complex is the location for parking the vehicle. Here I was greeted with a 4 meter high gate in the form of a Dutch-style building.
On the walls of this white gate are written the names of the people buried at Kerkhof Peucut, their names are sorted by year of death and sorted alphabetically. While the upper part of the gate looks magnificent, painted in yellow and dark brown, it is painted with Dutch building art. At the gate I also saw an inscription written in Dutch, Arabic and Javanese which stated that these were those who had died.
According to sources mentioned in a number of articles on display in this tomb area, this tomb area has an area of around 3.5 hectares which accommodates more than 2,200 Dutch soldiers. Those who are eaten here are Dutch soldiers who died during the war against the Acehnese. Apart from the Dutch soldiers, there are also graves for Marsose troops, KNIL, natives, and also Japanese soldiers.
We walked around the dining area which is quite large, inside the tomb complex there are a number of flower gardens, alleys and large trees. A number of large stones and the symbol of the cross as a gravestone appear embedded in this tomb area. A number of gravestones have biographical carvings of those who were eaten under them.
Meanwhile, there is also a grave without a name, there is also a complex of sacred graves belonging to Acehnese fighters in this complex. Kerkhoff's grave is basically a tourist attraction frequented by foreign tourists, especially those from the Netherlands. Although it is rarely visited by local tourists, this grave is still neatly cared for by the people of Banda Aceh and it receives special attention from the Dutch kingdom.
Kerkhof Peucut, the rows of tombstone burials in this tomb complex are white in color, neatly arranged and shady. Inside this complex there is also the tomb of "Meurah Pupok", who was a favorite son of Sultan Iskandar Muda. This tomb has a large parking area, as well as adequate facilities.
Located in the city center, with a strategic location, close to the Aceh Tsunami museum and not far from the Baiturrahman Great Mosque and Blang Padang Field. I visited here to get historical information about what happened during 1873-1904, a war that was quite bitter at that time. This tomb complex is a silent witness to the persistent struggle of the Acehnese people in defending their country from Dutch colonialism.
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Camera Iphone 11
Edited Lightroom
Category History, Travel, Culture
Location Sukaramai, Baiturrahman, Banda Aceh City, Aceh
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