THE SYMBOL OF SURABAYA

Logo of Surabaya

THE SYMBOL OF SURABAYA

The symbol of Surabaya that was current util this was appointed by DPRS Surabaya Big City with the decision number 34/DPRS on June 19, 1955, was reinforced with the Indonesian Republic President Decision No. 193 in 1956 0n December 14, 1956 that contained :

	1.	The symbol had the shape of the hexagon shield that distilled (gesty leerd), which has meant to protect the Surabaya City.
	2.	Pahlawan Monument description symbolized sons and daughters Surabaya heroism in maintaining independence against colonizers.
	3.	The Sura fish and Crocodile (baya) description that meant Sura ing Baya symbolized the characteristics of sons and daughters of Surabaya courage that did not vibrate faced a danger.
	4.	Blue, Black, Silver (White) and Gold (Yellow) colors was made be as clear and as brightly as possible, so that therefore was produced a satisfactory symbols.

Surabaya

Surabaya officially stood in 1293. The date was taken from the glory of Raden Wijaya, the first king of Majapahit who against China troops .
Surabaya has role to be an essential Port city for a long time. In that time, Kalimas River was a crowded river with many boats which sailed to Surabaya.

source : surabaya.go.id

"Surabaya Memory" at A Glance

The rapid development of Surabaya as an industrialized city has brought enormous impacts on the life of its inhabitants as well as the city. Economic considerations have often conquered other aspects such as social and cultural aspects of the city and the city dwellers. This condition has lead to the desolation / alienation of its people from their own social and cultural heritage.

This condition is embittered by the absence of a systematic and integrated approach to document and preserve the city's and its people's heritage, either by the city government or by the society itself. It is no surprise to find out that currently, the extensive record about the city of Surabaya might only be found in Oud Soerabaia (Old Surabaya) and Nieuw Soerabaia (New Surabaya) by Von Faber. An initiative is urgent enough to be carried out to improve the condition and to make people aware if such effort is very important. As an academic community, Petra Christian University feels obliged to lead an initiative on this subject.

On the occasion of the 708th Anniversary of Surabaya city, Petra Christian University takes the initiative to commence the efforts of documenting and preserving the Surabaya city's heritage in a systematical, integrated and participatory approach, called the "Surabaya Memory" project. The initiative will encourage public and government participation to contribute their personal or institutional collection of the city's heritage to form an extensive knowledge base of the Surabaya city's heritage.

This approach has been made possible by the development of digital library of Petra Christian University. One of the main features of this digital library is to provide facilities to encourage users to publicly
share the knowledge they have. This approach will have another virtuous effect, which is slowly transform the people of Surabaya and the people of Indonesia as a whole. They will become members of an information-producing society instead of an information-consuming society.

The digital library will also provide a much broader access to information for the society, which in turn will participate in the development of the digital collection. This snowballing effect will guarantee the success of such approach. In the end, the digital collection itself will be not developed alone by librarians, but will be developed by and through the society as the true owner of the heritage.


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Welcome to Surabaya

History of Surabaya


Surabaya, provincial capital of East Java and Indonesia's second-largest city after jakarta, served for over half a millenium as trading port for the inland empires of Java. Situated at the mouth of Brantas River, the city was officially founded in 1293 when Raden Widjaja established Majapahit, Indonesia's most glorius empire on the site of a legendary battle between a shark (Sura) and crocodile (Baya).

Surabaya, known as the "City of Heroes" because of its role in the nation's independence struggle, has grown into an elegant city of large, colonnaded buildings bordering broad, tree shaded abenues. It serves as the commercial centre of a thriving industrial and agricultural hinterland. the city's historical sites include KaliMas harbour with its tall-masted trading schooners and, nearby, the narrow alleyways and shop of the Arab quarter redolent of the Middle East.

The historic Majapahit Hotel, where Indonesia's war independence was begun, and the elegant Grahadi State Buildings, an 18th century mansion, have been restored as monuments to an era of colonical grace. Surabaya is also home to one of Southeast Asia's oldest and largest zoos. Purabaya Bus Station (Bungurasih) is number one largest bus station in Southeast Asia

For travellers in East Java, Surabaya serves as a convenient base for exploring the regoins many charm, including Mt. Bromo, the cool mountain retreats of Tretes and Malang and the natural wonders of several nature reserves.