Benteng Pendem at glance

Students of SMAN 3 Cilacap will show you about Benteng Pendem.

Pictures of Benteng Pendem

Do you know Benteng Pendem? It is a Dutch heritage fortress in Cilacap. It is about a half kilometer from Teluk Penyu beach with the land area of 6.5 hectares.

The fortress was the headquarters of Dutch East Indies Army defense which was built in 1861 – 1879 . It is surrounded by a moat . It has 60 rooms / barracks, scouts fort, arsenal, tunnels, prison, meeting rooms, ammunition room and 13 places important to defend which surrounded by a fence and a ditch and buried in the ground as deep as 1 – 3 metres.

There are facilities too such as rest areas, gazebos, swings, fishing ponds . Benteng Pendem is a historical place to visit so come and see the greatness of the past here

( The photos and description by Rahma Yulia, Aryani S, Tri Lestari, Yunita Arimbi, Adhisty, Rizky Dwi )

BENTENG PENDEM

Benteng Pendem was a Dutch fort name Kusbatterij od de Lantong te Tjilatjap. During VOC era, it is the main defence for Cilacap harbour, the final destination for spice traffic along the south coast of Java before taken straight to Netherland. It is so-called Benteng Pendem for it was buried 4 meters under the surface of the hill nearby when the first time locals discovered it.

Excavated since 1987, the fort was reveled in relatively intact condition. Benteng Pendem was built between 1861-1879 on 10 acres of beach wall. Today, it covers only 6 acres land. The lack of historical record and information causes some the rest of its area to the north taken and functioned as part of the area coverage of Pertamina (Indonesian Mining and Oil Company).

Sitting in a terrain of slightly higher level than the sea, Benteng Pendem was buried in purpose since its first construction as an undercover defence. The special experience of the Dutch damming up the beach can be seen from the fort’s construction. Instead of flooding the fort, sea water enters the compound during the flood tide and fills the moat for extra protection.

Upon entering Benteng Pendem, thick and bare stack of brick on the mason wall welcome everyone with eerie atmosphere. Haughty, you can feel the harsh time of colonial era from the fort. Its main entrance is a wide curved gate. This half circle opening and ceiling can be found in major parts of Benteng Pendem.

Inside the fort, darkness is blinding for a while as your eyes previously adapting the brightly shining sun outside. Eerie atmosphere is getting even thicker when your skin feel the moist but dry air on the interior. Dark corridors inter-relates a chamber from the others. Bringing flashlight is advisable during the tour.

Overall, Benteng Pendem is among only a few Dutch buildings that remain architecturally and physically intact. There is a vent on each room of cannon storage section. The holes are facing the sea as the cannons placed inside them as the sea defense. Right across them is a chamber previously the fort’s aid station.

Each visitor should pay IDR2.500,00 for admission ticket, a very cheap price comparing with the knowledge we get. There are gazebo and a children playground for visitors taking after enjoying the fort compound. Apart from its gloomy atmosphere, Benteng pendem is a good alternative for an adventurous trip the area.
Come on visit to Benteng Pendem......

From :
Ayu Uswatun Hasanah

Widara Payung

WIDARA PAYUNG BEACH

Hello, we are the students of SMA 3 Cilacap from class A. We would like to give you information about places of interest you can visit in Cilacap.

Look at the photos below. They are pictures we took while we were in Widara Payung beach.





Widara Payung beach impresses many visitors because it has beautiful view and many facilities. The visitors comes from different regions. It is located in Binangun one of Cilacap regency.
It is about 40 – 60 kms from central town of Cilacap.

Widara Payung beach is one of beaches in Cilacap. We can find a swimming pool, fishing places, food stalls, horses, playground, gazebos etc. We can enjoy clear blue water , surfing, collecting seashells or building sand castle. We can also ride a horse there.

Not only refreshing but also increasing knowledge about surfing are thing we can do there. If you try to surf, don’t forget to follow the direction. We can enjoy all facilities on the beach with cheap cost. We only to pay five thousands for riding a motorcycle , ten thousands for one car and five thousands each person. Very cheap isn’t it? So, please come and enjoy different things there.

( The photos were taken and the text was written by Ade Rahmadia, Arina Fauzia, Reni Erviana, Amellia Setyani, Arnanto Imani, Aprillia Intan and Dindatami Ely)

THE LEGEND OF RAWA PENING

Pening swamp was a place for water tourism in the district of Semarang, Central Java. The extent of 2670 hectares, and the occupied districts Ambarawa, Bawen, Tuntang, and Banyubiru. Almost the entire surface is covered with swamp water hyacinth plants. These plants also had similar weed cover Tuntang River, especially in the upstream.

According to legend, Telaga Rawapening is emerging, according to myth, as an excess of anger a poor boy named Jaka Popular k-ping. He became a target and ridicule people around the arrogant and greedy. The young man himself, according to the story, is the incarnation of a dragon that had just been killed by local people for consumption party of the people.

New Arrivals jaka baruklinting angered residents, because they do not wish to see a young man looking worn and dirty. Only one old widow named Nyai kerosene just want to give attention to him, including when the k-ping for food and drink. Ridicule and unfair treatment that makes k-ping mad until she dared to pose a challenge to local residents. This young man challenged them to take a leaf is embedded in the ground.

To her surprise, angry residents who could not do it, other than their own k-ping. However, when he pulled out the leaf, Raise water from the soil in which the leaves were stuck. More and more until it became a flood, drowning all citizens Nyai Ngebel besides petroleum, and there was a big pool

Karang Bolong Beach

Karang Bolong Beach is one of the most popular tourism objects in Cilacap. Karang means rock and bolong means hole
It is located in the eastern of Nusakambangan Island. Nusakambangan Island is famous as the Prisoner Island but a part of it has beautiful panorama which can be visited by people who want to enjoy the beauty of natural scenery
To reach the Kalang Bolong Beach firstly we can use the vessel from Teluk Penyu Beach crossing the sea about 15 minutes. On the vessel while enjoying the beautiful panorama of the sea, we can play the water on the right and the left of the vessel by waving hand into the sea water or rowing by using hand and throwing the water to friends in happiness. After arriving at the bank of Nusakambangan Island we have to walk about 20 minutes crossing the forest to arrive there
Karang Bolong Beach has smooth and clean white sand, there’s also small shells spread of along the beach. The wave rolling to the beach makes the beach more beautiful. The visitors can play sand by making the sand castle or other things we want such as turtle, fish, etc.
As a matter of fact the form of Karang Bolong is derived from the wave which crushes the rock anytime. The rock is scraped or swept away by the water. So the rock is holed or “bolong” in Javanese
Although the trip was so tiring but after arriving at the beach and saw beautiful scenery of it, our tiredness was automatically disappeared and replaced by the happiness.

Nur Indah Tiafia
XI IPA 2
SMANIC

KAMPUNG LAUT

KAMPUNG LAUT
Kampung Laut is located on the west coast in the island of Nusakambangan cilacap. Named "Village of Sea" because the township is located in the lagoon and its surroundings is ly waters.There are a variety of uniqueness in this area, ranging from the number of Karst Cave, marine fauna, and until the lifestyle of the people who settled in the area.
Its location can be said isolated and far enough from urban areas, takes time from 3.5 to 4.5 hours depending on weather and route, using the boat engine.
To get to Kampung Laut we can take the ship from port sleko .. Around 40-75 thousand per person depending group participants or us. but for charter around the lagoon immediately compreng day tillers including reclaiming the sea and the village have to spend their money around 300-400 per kapal.Setiap rb compreng ship can be loaded with about 20-25 people.
In this room with compreng ship, we will pass through the island forests and reclaiming mangroove used as a prison for inmates heavyweight.



History and Settlement Patterns

According to folklore, which is still believed to be truthful by the local community. Kampung Laut is a native son descended from the warriors of Mataram. The warriors of Mataram at the time had come to the Village area to secure the territorial waters of the Sea ly from the disruption of the Portuguese pirates. The soldiers were led by four people wiratamtama, which is called Keep the Playa, Keep the Praya, Official Guard and Marine Guard. Thanks to the miracle of the wiratamtama that the waters of Cilacap and finally ly safe, free from pirate interference.

After a safe state, it turns out the wiratamtama and his men did not want to go back to the center of the kingdom of Mataram, but remained in Cilacap and surrounding areas such as Playa Guard and Praya Guard later settled in the area now called Klapalima, meanwhile, Official Guard and Marine Guard chose lived on the island of Nusakambangan. Official Keep living in the area now called Legok Pari, while residing in the Sea Guard Yellow or Gebang now better known as the Yellow Flower.

When the rule of the kingdom of Mataram increasingly weakened and ultimately controlled by the Dutch East Indies government, many areas had been the territory of Mataram, turning to the power of the Dutch East Indies. Cilacap and thus reclaiming that time under the authority of the Government of the Netherlands East Indies was chosen for the disposal of those who violate the law and the power of the Dutch East Indies government.

The inmates who are reclaiming that time not well taken care of by the government of the Netherlands East Indies, so that not a few of those who interfere with the inhabitants previous Nusakambangan island, namely the children and descendants Guard Sea Guard official and his subordinates. Because of that they then get away from reclaiming the island, and make the houses where they lived at sea ly. In this ly then standing groups are a collection of residential homes, houses an intangible houses on stilts. In line with the changing times, each housing group was growing, so eventually form something the village. Such villages are spread in the region ly. Because the villages were located in marine waters (ly), then later called Kampung Laut. Another name from Kampung Laut is Bejagan or Pejagan. This name is also associated with the story above, that ly is where the soldiers were on guard to the Mataram kingdom this area is safe, free from disturbance of the sea bajk.

At the time of independence, several adjacent villages merged into a district or village. Kampung Laut is now administratively divided into three village areas, namely Ujungalang, located in the South, or Karanganyar Ujunggagak Panikel to the west and residing in the North.

Until the 1970s until the early 1980s dwelling houses in Kampung Laut is still a house on stilts.The houses that his form was like the houses of Java in general, the shape of a rectangle with a roof or Limasan Srotong Kampung model, built on wooden poles tancang. High cantilever beams this ranged from 4 to 7 meters, which is plugged into the bottom of the sea at low tide.Framework home tancang generally made of wood, who was easily obtained in mangrove forests. There also are using wood blocks or Laban or other type of timber that can be obtained from reclaiming. Floor and roof frame (kaso and battens) are generally also of wood tancang, which are small and straight. The walls of the house quite varied. There are boards made of wood or gebyok, there is made of woven bamboo, or there is also a form of welit or awning, which is woven palm leaves. The roof is generally in the form welit palm leaves, or zinc. Tile roof is not desirable because of the weight. Lined residential location patterns are generally elongated. When there are two rows, then the existing houses in a single series, will be built in rows facing the other, and between two rows of houses there like a bridge walkway, which is also made of wood. A village may consist of four rows of houses or more.

By the 1980s the houses increasingly disappearing stage. Cause, except for those more difficult to get wood or wood tancang other types that are considered good for building houses, as well as the more rapid the rate of silting of the sea as a result of sedimentation of mud at any time by sunga0sungai existing heaped on ly north. Facing such a situation, there are people who do not replace the pillars sustaining the damaged house with wood, meguruk emalinkan later stage under the house with soil taken from reclaiming or land use arise. Little by little, under the house which had been a watery room, increasingly filled with soil. Finally, all filled with the soil under the house. The success of under-fill under the house was later imitated by all villagers.Even under-under the bridge to the road, covering, as well as mutual assistance, so that eventually the entire area where the settlement was to be the mainland. Today has been difficult to find a house that stood on the stage of sea water.

Form or model building rumahpun much has changed, changed the shape or model of modern houses as there are in cities. House building materials are no longer dominated by wood.Timber materials are generally only for the roof frame and frame-frame. Old wood floor has now been replaced with cement or ceramic. Similarly walls. Who used a zinc roof or welit, now generally in the form of clay tile.

Although in the form and building materials home has undergone many changes, but the layout pattern of housing, particularly in settlements where the inhabitants of livelihood as a fisherman, there are still many who follow the old pattern. As mentioned above, the pattern layout of an old-fashioned housing is lined pattern. In a single row of houses facing the same red Kea. Front of the houses there is a public road. This road will also exposes an advanced standard for homes that are in rows in front of him, so that the housing layout pattern is formed in two rows where the middle lane stretch of public road.

For the sake of ease of transportation of water, behind the houses that lined it made water channels or ditches that connect settlements to the sea. Small docks located behind the houses. So if the road is located between two rows of houses that each turn one (Ungkur-ungkuran, red: Java language).

Name : Rio Firmansyah
School : SMA NEGERI 1 CILACAP

Belitung Island

Belitung Island is located of the east coast of Sumatra close to Palembang. Very few visitors venture to Pulau Belitung, though with development of some new hotels there is still an opportunity to enjoy the uncrowded white sandy beaches with crystal clear blue waters.
The capital city of Belitung is Tanjungpandan. There is a museum, built within an old Chinese mansion on Jalan Melati with displays of the tin mining industry which was Belitung and the neighbouring Bangka Island main industry.Today the tin mining is continuing along with the typical palm oil plantations that you see all over Sumatra.
There are a number of nice white sandy beaches on Belitung Island. These include Tanjung Tinggi, Burung Mandi, Tanjung Keliyang, Tanjung Binga, Pantai Punai and Mebalong. Also the the small islands, just off the coast of Belitung, Lengkaus Island and Burung Island have beautiful white sandy beaches and good places for snorkelling.
Belitung Island still has a large Chinese community, as many Chinese moved here in the late 19th century to work in the tin mines. There is a beautiful Chinese Temple near Burung Mandi Beach on the eastern coast of Belitung.Belitung Island has some great spots for snorkeling and scuba diving though the tourist industry is not yet developed enough to support these activities especially the scuba diving.