Surabaya Translation Services
Sydney Translation provides professional translation services for over 60 languages in Surabaya.
Our translation agency specialises in legal, business and marketing translations. Our customers trust us with high quality business translation and professional DTP work.
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Surabaya
Surabaya, the capital of West Java province, located about 180 kilometres (110 mi) southeast of Jakarta, is the third largest city in Indonesia. The earliest reference to the city dates back to 1488, although archaeological findings suggest a type of Homo erectus species had lived on the banks of the Cikapundung River and around the old lake of Surabaya. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) opened plantations in the Surabaya area. A supply road connecting Batavia (now Jakarta), Bogor, Cianjur, Surabaya, Sumedang and Cirebon was built in 1786. In 1809, Napoleon I Emperor of the French and conqueror of much of Europe including the Netherlands and its colonies,(before his ultimate downfall at Waterloo in 1815) ordered the Dutch Indies Governor H.W. Daendels to improve the defensive systems of Java to protect against the British in India. Daendels built a road, stretching approximately 1,000 km (620 mi) from the west to the east coast of Java, passing through Surabaya. In 1810, the road was laid down in Surabaya and was named De Groote Postweg (or the 'main post road'), the present-day site of Asia-Afrika Street. Under Daendels' orders, R.A. Wiranatakusumah II, the chief administration of the Surabaya regency at that time, moved its office from Krapyak, in the south, to a place near a pair of holy city wells (sumur Surabaya), the present-day site of the city square (alun-alun). He built his dalem (palace), masjid agung (the grand mosque) and pendopo (public-official meeting place) in the classical orientation. The pendopo faces Tangkuban Perahu mountain, which was believed to have a mystical ambience.
After the Indonesian Independence in 1945, Surabaya was determined as the capital of West Java province. During the 1945–1949 independence struggle against the Dutch when they wanted to reclaim their colonies, Surabaya was one of the heaviest battle places. At the end of World War II nearly no Dutch troops were in Java. Before restoring Dutch sovereignty, the British took a military hold on Java's major cities. The British military commander set an ultimatum for the Indonesian combatants in Surabaya to leave the city. In response, on 24 March 1946, much of the southern part of Surabaya was deliberately set alight as the combatants left; an event known as the Surabaya Lautan Api or 'Surabaya Sea of Flame'.1
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