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Trowulan, The Legacy of History from Indonesia Biggest Kingdom - Majapahit |
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Trowulan temple, is located in Trowulan, Mojokerto, East Java - Indonesia. This site is the only city site of the Hindu-Budha classical age in Indonesia that can still be found. Trowulan is a former of capital city of the Majapahit Kingdom was built on flat terrains at the foot of three mountains, namely the Penanggungan, Welirang, and Anjasmara Mountain. Trowulan area was suitable for human settlement since it was supported by plane topography with relatively shallow ground water. Hundreds of thousands of archaeological remnants of the old city in the Trowulan Site were found buried underground as well as on the surface in the form of: artifacts, eco-facts, and features. Now, Trowulan is one of tourism commodity in East Java.
As a legacy of the history from biggest Indonesia Kingdom, Majapahit, Trowulan is valuable heritage. Original design must be found to re-construcy the temple. After heated controversy over the construction of the Majapahit Information Center in the country’s largest archaeological site, Trowulan, one architect is offering a more careful solution. A recent architectural design competition chose the concept offered by Jakarta-based architect Yori Antar, a set of knock-down structural modules standing on a traditional foundation that has long in use in use in the country. Building a museum atop an archaeological site is a tricky business, especially when it involves atop-grade site where one can find traces of the past even at a depth of several inches. The umpak foundation that has been long used in our traditional structures is suitable not just in this case. It doesn’t require digging deep into the ground, risking damage to the historical site, yet it provides the much-needed load transfer. It was also the controversial project that shined the spotlight back again on a historical site dating back to the 13th century. It was an issue the public had wrongfully blamed solely on architect Baskoro Tedjo, who was appointed to develop the initial design. Led by the Culture and Tourism Ministry, last year’s controversy over the construction of a museum in Trowulan actually shed a light on how the authorities were still trapped inside the conventional paradigm of revitalizing an archaeological site through tourism-generated economy. There’s nothing wrong with tourism. It has been one of the most common ways to put traces of the past into today’s living activities. But digging concrete foundation deep into a ground that hides valuable artifacts and hoping to create a landmark on top of it is far from being wise. This is not Bilbao. Trowulan needs more than a mere grand structure to reveal its grace and help boost the local economy. By category, the remnants of the Majapahit kingdom scattered over a 100-square-kilometer site are different from other archaeological sites in the country. They consist not of grander monuments like Borobudur, but instead something greater than that: traces of an ancient city. A series of excavations revealed coins, pottery, Chinese ceramics, canals, bones and wells. All were proof of the massive scale of the settlement, an actual urban heritage that could portray part of the civilization that existed centuries before modern life. Mentioned in Negarakertagama, an ancient script from the 14th century by Prapanca, the Trowulan compound is more than just a royal palace. Though the center of the complex is the red-brick palace, the overall heritage consists of a set of settlements buried under the volcanic debris of Mount Kelud. Several landmarks that have been fully excavated are the Segaran Pool, Tikus Temple, the palace gate Bajang Ratu and the compound gate Wringin Lawang. Remains of brick floors and walls of houses, homes that already had proper wells and drains, are found outside the palace compound. Socio-politically, Majapahit and its remains are more than just ancient physical temples. The ancient kingdom founded by Raden Wijaya laid the foundation for the concept of Nusantara, a state-like entity that once stretched over an area more vast than modern-day Indonesia. Yet romanticizing a glorious past is not what is needed. Locals living in and around Trowulan need more than just memories and flocks of tourists gazing at their ancestral masterpiece. The Trowulan open museum is perhaps just a way to reopen the discussion. How can we put the past in the future for good? |
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