Banda Neira Island

Banda Neira Island

Banda Island

Banda Neira is a group of small islands located on the southeast island of Ambon and Maluku provinces, including in Central Maluku district.
Banda Neira is an old town full of memories and part of the international world history is not forgotten. Neira is the capital of Banda district, the city that has been aged five centuries, an old town that holds the mysteries of love and sorrow for all its inhabitants, a city that by foreign historians called the “Klein Europeesche een stad in Zuid-Oost azie or group of cities europe owned Southeast Asia.
Nutmeg as a major commodity Banda Islands, is a legend that grace saves and a curse for the people of Banda. In a world economy in the 15th century to early 19th century, which concentrates on the spice trade, it has raised nutmeg Banda name as an international city, it also brings people of Banda in the prolonged catastrophe. All the suffering of the Banda at that originate in nutmeg. People Banda became helpless victims in the Dutch imperialist. Tens of thousand people of Banda were massacred by Jan Pieterszoon Coen and his troops in action deprivation of the rights of the people of Banda at the time.
The massacre of tens of thousands of people of Banda with 44 characters is never forgotten in the minds of all children Banda country from generation to generation, and to remember the human tragedy, the scene of the killing fields, the people of Banda build a monument which is known as a monument “Parigi Chain” . Parigi both chains and Dutch fortifications are scattered in almost all islands of Banda and luxury homes from the Dutch and British, not only become an attractive tourist attraction, but also a symbol of the suffering people of Banda for hundreds of years.

Banda Island

Banda people today is a mixture of different ethnic descent who had long resided in Banda Neira, such as Portuguese, Dutch, English, Chinese, Malay, Arabic, Java, Sulawesi and so forth. The process is what makes ethnic Banda Neira as “unique ethnic” with performances of more pleasing to the eye, and has a temperament as “ethnic jovial”, friendly, full of friendship with the priority of associative processes in social contacts. As a new ethnic mix that was born from the unique features of various ethnic, turning people into Banda as the new men who failed the test in misery like to work hard and have a tolerant attitude and incredible submission. That is why the Bung Hatta (Vice-President of the First Republic) who have resided for five years in Banda Neira (1937-1942) states Banda People like miniature of Indonesia. If Indonesia is made up of various tribes were to proceed into a new nation, then surely the final Banda has become a new tribe in the social fabric of Indonesian society New aspired it.
Banda is not only offer beautiful culture, but also provide peace of its natural panoramic view to anyone who visited there. An expert maritime and underwater archeology Causteau French Jacques, said that looking at Banda Neira like finding a new Heaven, as if he was in Seventh Heaven layer.