LEMBAH BUJANGGENIUS LOCI - SITE

ANALYSIS DOCUMENTING INTERPRETING AND ANALYZING THE SITE CONTEXT

KEY PLAN

HISTORICAL OF LEMBAH BUJANG

MAIN ACTIVITIES

ENTREPORTIRON SMELTING TRADING

HUMAN-CULTURAL

HinduismAnimisme Buddhism

Influences on culture: • Hinduism exerted a profound influence on Malay culture before the coming of Islam to

Malay peninsula• According to Sejarah Melayu, Malay royalty was essentially Hindu royalty descended,

from a legendary half-Indian and hald-Greek monarch, Raja Suran, whose son all bearing Indian proper names.

• Early Malay literature is almost completely derived from Hindu epics, from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Even today, a major portion of Malay vocabulary is made up of Sanskrit words. Muslim fasting is known by the Sanskrit term puasa. A muslim religious teacher is often called guru( In Hindu Betara Guru)Muslim prayer called sembahyang (In Sanskrit: Sembah(pray), yang(divinity or conjuring respect))

• For religion, the greater Gods of the Malay pantheon were borrowed from Hindu divinities and then modified by Malay ideas. Of the lesser deities of Hinduism, the most notable who have remained in Malay superstition and folk-lore are the gergasi(Half-human forest spirits of Hindu epic), Raksasa(giant). The sanskrit word Syurga is used in connection with the Islamic concept of paradise, and the hindu religious term neraka is used to explain the Islamic concept of hell.

LOCATION

It was located on Bukit Batu Pahat, Merbok, Kedah, where the grounds surrounding the museum building are where the candi are found. Some have always been here while others, such as Candi Pengkalan Bujang were found nearby and relocated here in the 1970s.

It was built to carry out research work and archaeological excavations as well as to exhibit protohistoric or pre-Islamic artefacts from Lembah Bujang historic sites

FUNCTION OF THE MUSEUM

The only museum in Malaysia which exhibits archaeological collections that serves as evidence of the existence of a trade and Hindu/Buddhism propagation center in Southeast Asia from the 3rd. to the 12th century AD.

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VIEWS TO THE SITE

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CONCLUSION

- Average visitor annually is not ideal.

- The Circulation of the site is not ideal, each spaces is not connected well.

- However It is one of the tourism attraction, but it doesn’t show open to public but more like a closed working space for the archeology.

- The respond from public doesn’t reach the expectation.