Lawang Kidul Mosque

Lawang Kidul mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Palembang. It is located in riparian Musi, near the Lawang Kidul river. The mosque was built by Ki. Mgs. H. Abdul Hamid bin Mgs. H. Mahmud in 1890. He was also well known as Kiai Merogan. Marogan was referred to the name of a river, where he lived and spent his time for activities.

Ampera Bridge

Ampera Bridge was built in April, 1962 and finished in May 1965. The bridge has 1,100 meters at length and 22 meters at width. The bridge mast was stake into the ground at 75 meter. The bridge has two towers 75 meters at height and the distance between the tower is about 71,5 meters.

Benteng Kuto Besak

This fortress had been built for about 17years (1780-1797) and called Benteng Kuto Besak (BKB). It is surrounded by rivers, Kapuran River (now Merdeka Street) and Musi River at north, Sekanak river at west, and Tengkuruk river at east. Just like Kapuran River, Tengkuruk River was also piled up with soil by Dutch government in 1930 to make the road.

Some people believe that the fortress was made of eggs and cow’s bone to strengthen the construction instead of cement. It is 290 meters at length, 180 meters at width, and 7,20 meters at height.

Bandit From Kayu Agung

Kayu Agung is a small city, about 70 km away from Palembang, South Sumatra Indonesia. The city is just like other small city. It is not so crowded and modern, but it has a unique thing to know. In the 70’s era (until now), there are so many people from this city go to other country, such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, even America to make money not as workers, but as bandits called Duta (Indonesian language).

They make money by doing steal, rob, and pick pocket or something like that. Some of them have black magic so that they can do their job very well. The more interesting is, if they have much money from their job, they will set aside money for the poor or the needs.

Though Duta still exist until now, but they have difficulties to do their activities because of security equipments like CCTV and alarm. If you come to Kayu Agung, you will find some empty big houses, because the owner go abroad to be Duta/bandits.