Samudera Pasai (The Lost Kingdom of Both Sovereignty and its Heritage Preservation)
No one can deny the history of Aceh is very long and always interesting to study, recorded with gold ink of the history and gloriousness of the nation and kingdom of Aceh in the past, and it's God's gift to the people of Aceh where our ancestors are noble nation and has enforced Islamic law in the region this, and no mistake if later on in Aceh dubbed the Veranda of Mecca. All that can not be separated from the history and culture of the people of Aceh in the past have embraced Islam and always uphold the commandments and shari'ah of God on the peninsula of sumatera and the entrance of Islam to the archipelago.
Nowadays after hundreds of years left by this country by the indatu (ancestors), Aceh as if lost identity, Islamic law which is the nature and the essence of the people in living life re-applied, whereas our ancestors were all obedient, obedient to God and command of the sultan. If we read the history of the entry of Islam into the archipelago will not be separated from a region and kingdom in northern Aceh that is Ocean pasai, which can be taken several kilometers east of Lhokseumawe and included in North Aceh territory.
And do not hope there is a legacy of the first march and meuligo of the first Islamic kingdom in Indonesia that there is just a complex of tombs of the kings of Samudera Pasai.
It also must be taken a few more kilometers from the state road of Banda Aceh-Medan. The local government of North Aceh and Lhokseumawe as the direct beneficiaries of the site and the cultural heritage are less sensitive to history and how to preserve the historical heritage. Evidence of the local government's lack of seriousness to preserve, develop and promote the historic sites both to domestic and foreign tourists as well as to the younger generation is the direction for access to the historic site is absent, even if a billboard or billboard does not attract the attention of people and visitors to see it as it is in the town of Geudong, the capital of Samudera subdistrict, now.
Oddly again billboards for cigarette advertisement alone is quite large and attract the eyes of the people who saw it, it is now a museum that keeps the relics of the kingdom of Pasai Ocean past, but not functioning. Yet every graduation school vacation does not visit historic objects that already exist to remind the young generation of our cultural history.
Samudera Pasai as the first kingdom of Islam in Indonesia and recorded with gold ink in the history of the Indonesian nation, and indeed to perpetuate the name of the North Aceh local government adds it to one district in North Aceh that beribu Geudong city, it is ironic indeed, once Samudera Pasai the great empire with the birth of the Sultan as great as Sultan Malikusshaleh and his heirs now only as the name of a sub-district that is not advanced even the district that can not promote its area to the outside world that this place is the first kingdom in the archipelago, Islam was born and continues to grow and spread to various places in Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Thailand and southern Philippines.
whereas a good nation is a nation that does not forget its history and its ancestors, if we look at kingdoms like Britain, Saudi Arabia and our neighbor Malaysia, its people and society still recognize empires that have been hundreds of years and never forget their history and ancestors who has built it with great difficulty into a world-wide and world-renowned kingdom and the UN.
While Aceh in the past was one of the world's great empires, one of the five great nations that affected the world and civilization after Turkey, Britain, Spain, Portugal, China and Aceh, but now the traces of Aceh's history seem to disappear without any relics or conservation efforts conferehensive, if there is little relics and almost neglected than it is only in the sheets of paper in books written by researchers and historians. The same three money with Aceh is Turkey where the equally lost system of empire rule is clear according to the Al Qur'an, replaced by Jewish democracy.
Our hope as an Acehnese community, as the heir of history, should the leaders of the provincial well-established districts / municipalities should have sensitivity and empathy in the history of the country's past, the renovation of sites, cultural heritage and history of Aceh's heritage to be better accessible, historic excursion to the places and objects of Aceh kings' remembrance so that future generations know and will not forget and keep in mind the cultural history of Aceh
