Pekanbaru Capital Riau Province, Indonesia

INDONESIAN CITIES - Pekanbaru City is the capital and largest city in the province of Riau, Indonesia. The city is a city of trade and services, including as the city with the level of growth, migration and urbanization are high.

Pekanbaru has an international airport, the Airport Sultan Syarif Kasim II and inter-city bus terminal and inter-provincial Bandar Raya Umbrella Sekaki, and two ports on the Siak River, which Pelita Beach and River Duku.

Currently Pekanbaru is rapidly growing into a trading city multi-ethnic, diversity has become a social capital in achieving a common interest to be used for the welfare of society.

Geography

Geographically, the city of Pekanbaru has a strategic position on the path to East Sumatera, connected with several cities such as Medan, Padang and Jambi, with administrative area, flanked by Siak on the north and east, while the west and south by the Kampar.

The city is split by the Siak River which flows from west to east and is located at an altitude ranging between 5-50 meters above sea level. The city includes tropical climate with maximum air temperature ranged between 34.1 ° C to 35.6 ° C, and the minimum temperature between 20.2 ° C to 23.0 ° C.

Prior to 1960 the city of Pekanbaru only area of 16 km² which then increased to 62.96 km² with two districts, namely the sub-district and sub-district Senapelan Fifty. Subsequently in 1965 to 6 sub-districts, and in 1987 into 8 districts with an area of 446.50 km², after the government approved the Kampar region to give up some of its territory for the purposes of expansion of the city of Pekanbaru, which is then determined by the Indonesian Government Regulation No. 19 Year 1987. Then in 2003 the number of districts in the city is divided into 12 districts.

Tourism

Pekanbaru City has several buildings with typical architecture of the building include Balai Adat Melayu Riau Malay located in Jalan Diponegoro, this building consists of two floors, on the upper floor plastered some traditional proverbs and chapters couplets Twelve by Raja Ali Haji writers Bugis descent. On the left and right of the entrance to the main room can be read chapters 1-4, while chapters 5-12 are located on the inner wall of the main room. 

Later in the Sudirman there Riau Cultural Park House, this building serves as a venue for various cultural activities and performances Malay art and other activities.  

While these buildings are adjacent to the Museum of Sang Nila Utama, a regional museum Riau which has various collections of historical objects, art, and culture. The museum bears the name of a legendary figure in Sulalatus Salatin, founder of Singapore.  

Furthermore Art Anjung K. Tintin one cultural icon in the city of Pekanbaru, a building with traditional architecture, using the name of an artist Riau, K. Tintin.

 

In the region there are Masjid Raya Pekanbaru Senapelan formerly known as Alam Mosque, built around the 18th century with the traditional architectural style and is the oldest mosque in the city of Pekanbaru. While tradition Megang evening when entering the month of Ramadan has been done since the Sultanate of Siak is still held by the people of the city of Pekanbaru.

In 2011, the community Pariaman for the first time a party Tabuik culture in Pekanbaru. Such is the case in the area of origin, the celebration was held in the month of Muharram, to commemorate the Battle of Karbala. Although not a local tradition, it demonstrates the diversity and one event for the development of the tourism sector. While each year, the Chinese community in Pekanbaru also held Chinese New Year celebration, and then closed with the Cap Go Meh. This party is generally concentrated in the region Senapelan especially on some of them Vihara Dharma temple or monastery Tridharma Loka Goddess Sakti.

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