Preserving Archaeological

Preserving Archaeological Heritage in Pasaman 

TEMPLE Tanjung Medan is an ancient heritage in the hamlet Tanjungmedan, District Oantai, Pasaman, West Sumatra. If a visit to this place, you will see two temples made of red brick with brick size is relatively larger than the size of an ordinary brick used today's society. A second shrine-like building is now reconstructed and given a roof as the original brick that many have been destroyed. The area around the temple also has a good fence. Visitors who want to see this temple can easily reach the location because it was close enough from the highway-Medan Padang. You can stop at kilometer (km) 189 of Padang, or 98 km from Bukittinggi, or 80 miles from Kotanopan (as written on the nearest kilometer milestone). When you've found the milestone kilometers, walk about 200 meters to the north, and the right will see a dirt road intersection (exactly 20 meters before the bridge). Follow the dirt road to the east and approximately 200 meters you will see the irrigation Panti-Rao.

This temple is a Hindu or Buddhist cultural heritage. This is confirmed by naming the place of the temple was called Biaro (convents, monasteries). Residents around the temple today are all Muslims and do not know the history of this temple. Possible founder of this temple was never settled there for some time before it finally became extinct or leave the village because of an unknown cause. Some time after the left, then came the ancestors of current residents.

Judging from the location of the temple at the edge of the trunk Sumpur, which flows into the province of Riau (Riau's name changed to Rokan River and empties into the east coast of Sumatra), the founder of the temple is estimated to come from Tanjung Medan Rokan river downstream areas as well as the ancestors of the Minangkabau people are also expected to follow the river from the east coast of Sumatra. One proof of this is the presence of common names of some places that exist in the District Nursing and Ujung Batu area (Riau province), such as Tanjungmedan, Rambah, mining, and Sontang. (okezone.com)