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Welcome
to Surabaya
It
was not silt which led to Gresik's eclipse; plenty of exotic sailing
craft still bob on the polluted waters of its harbor. The culprit
was the mighty colonial port of Surabaya, just 25 km along the
coast to the southeast. Ceded to the Dutch by Mataram in 1743,
Surabaya was still smaller than Gresik in 1800. However, it had
been selected as the chief Dutch entrepot and administrative center
for East Java; and the massive growth of the colonial economy
in the 19th century made Surabaya the busiest port and the biggest
city in the Dutch Indies, outstripping even Batavia and ranking
almost alongside Singapore in international importance. Today,
Surabaya has again been overtaken by Jakarta in size, but at 5.1
million people it is the second largest in the country and growing
fast. Surabaya's sweet name belies a reality of heat, dirt and
noise, but it is an interesting and gripping place. This is a
living cultural center, both in the formal sense of plays and
performances and in the sense of the fusion and regeneration of
folk cultures.
Surabaya
is cosmopolitan, but without the jarring pseudo-Western glitter
of Jakarta. Give or take an air-conditioned shopping complex or
two, Surabaya's atmosphere is more purely Indonesian, with a special
cast Indonesian flavor. For as Surabaya grew as an export point
for Javanese products, it also became the hub of the maritime
trading network for the eastern archipelago as a whole. Much of
its population is from nearby Madura, but there are also large
numbers of Banjar from Kalimantan, Bugis and Minahasans from Sulawesi
and Ambonese from the Moluccas.
Surabaya's colonial boom was in a sense, a renaissance, for the
port has a long history. In 1620, it was a fortified trading city
over 30 kilometers in circumference, a state in its own right
with lordship over Gresik and Sidayu. However, five years later
Mataram took it by siege, thus ending Surabaya's luster for more
than two centuries. According to tradition, the conquered king's
son took on the life of an ascetic at the holy grave of Surabaya's
founder - yet another wali, Sunan Ngampel, who was a pupil of
Malik Ibrahim of Gresik. His grave can be seen in Kampong Ngampel,
the birth place of the city, now lost in the old commercial district
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plaza
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Sheraton
Surabaya
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Novotel
Surabaya Hotel
Novotel Surabaya is the right place for business or relaxation,
located in the main business district of Surabaya. A resort
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Majapahit
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The Hotel is located in the heart of Surabaya, Indonesia's
second largest city and the capital of east Java.Built in
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