THE ORIGIN OF THE COFFEE CULTURE IN ACEH. Coffee culture was not found in Aceh until near the end of the 19th Century. An orientalist who became a sociocultural researcher, Snouck Hurgronye wrote in The Achehnese Volume I, during his research of the Acehnese, “For most ordinary people in Aceh, white water is almost the only drink, from time to time (occasionally) it will drink sugar cane juice, squeezed from the trunk only with a very primitive tool.” Continue reading
HOW TO TELL HISTORY. A good historian knows that he is drawing. He tells something, a circumstance, an event, from a situation he might not see, he does not face. Because the material of history is actually like a canvas of memory. Continue reading
“Dalam bekerja kita jangan terlalu melihat keatas nanti kita menjadi pengiri dengki, dan juga jangan terlalu melihat ke bawah nanti menjadi sombong akan tetapi lihatlah ke depan untuk memacu diri lebih berkembang” Continue reading
On Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Two men a pair of gay at the whip in the yard of Lamgugob Mosque, District Syiah Kuala. They are convicted of sexual misconduct. They were caned 83 times. The sentence is reduced 2 times or two months of detention, according to the judge’s verdict. Continue reading
On 9-16 May 2017 Aceh Government through Culture and Tourism Office in cooperation with Mapensa, (Aceh History Concern Society) held an exhibition titled “Aceh Tombstone as the Heritage of Islamic Culture in Southeast Asia” at Museum Aceh. The tombstone exhibit features an original collection of 18 headstones, four from the Samudera Pasai Sultanate, three from the Lamuri Sultanate and 11 collections of gravestones from the time of the Sultanate of Aceh Darussalam. Continue reading
Tiga pemuda buncit datang ke jalan Desa Beuringen Pirak, Kecamatan Matangkuli, Aceh Utara, Sabtu (15/4/2016). Mereka memasuki rumah pahlawan nasional Cut Meutia, srikandi Aceh yang namanya kesohor berkat perjuangannya melawan penjajah Belanda tempo dulu. Continue reading
