Traditional and Colonial Building

Aceh Traditional House

The traditional house

I wanna tell a little description about the traditional house of aceh...

The traditional house of the Aceh  is called Rumoh Aceh. The Acehnese houses always face north or south. Aceh traditional house is one of acehnese landmark . In this house, acehnese people live and stay in this house. This traditional house have many colourful ornament in the wall, windows, doors and in the roof. This house is full by beautiful ornaments.  

This house structure uses compact wooden structures of a post-and-beam or H-structure, set ontop of flat, natural stones and not using nails in this house structure. This house  also known as “high houses” and are built onto tall posts to protect against animal attacks and flooding. Floors are made of wooden planks or rattan of feather palm; thin, interlaced sections of split bamboo or coconut leaves make up the walls, and sago palm leaves or corrugated iron cover the steeply pitched roofs. 

The ornaments

Flower ornaments

An Acehnese home owner is most likely to be a woman. That's why in this traditional house uses many beautiful and colourful ornaments. In Achnese tradition, when a daughter is married, her father gives her a separate dwelling. If the family is too poor, an annex will be erected onto their house.

If you want to find this house easyly, you have to visit Aceh's museum. This house is place here .

Cakra Donya's Bell

Cakra Donya's Bell

Cakra Donya's bell is one of herritage landmark in Banda Aceh. This bell have a story about how that bell can come to Aceh. I wanna tell you a little history about this bell.

This bell place now in Aceh Museum. In this museum, we can see the most interesting collection is a big bell called “Lonceng Cakra Donya”, a gift from China Grand-Duke (Ming Emperor, in the 15th century) for Sultan Aceh that was delivered by a Chinese Moslem, Admiral Cheng Ho in 1414, we could read an inscription on the bell : “Sing Fang Niat Toeng Juut Kat”. Nowadays, the bell isn't sound. Because according to the history, the main bell was lost.

The Colonial Building 

Aceh Governor's Residence building was built by the dutch

This Governor's Residence building has built by the Dutch in 1880 on the spot where the palace of the sultan once stood. This building is known as one of the historical sites with a unique architecture and completed with traditional house equipments. We usually call this building with "pendopo" .

The interior

The windows called krepyak