Hello everyone!
Gosh! It took so long for me to write this, since writing needs the idea how and what to write, the memories, and the most important: MOOD.
Well, for indonesian people, Banda Aceh is a familiar city, but not all of us had been there.
Well, like most of us know Banda Aceh is a moslem city, but doesnt mean theres no other religion.
Banda Aceh got a tragic disaster, Tsunami on 2004. It was horrible, more than 230.000 people died on that occasion. But the city has been rebuilt and move on! Become a much better one. Not like other city in Indonesia, Aceh has their own police called Wilayatul Hisbah or Syariah Police. Their job re to punish moslem people if they don't wear "Hijab" or a proper cloth for Moslem Ladies. They have to cover all over the body including hair, arms, legs, and theres no indentation, like boobs or legs or butt or anything improper. And also to punish the prostitute, people who using drugs and alcohol, people who do PDA (Public Display Affection: means no kissing no hugging no "hand in hand" or "gandengan tangan" in Public), punish couple who check in to the Hotel (not "Muhrim" or "husband and wife" ).
Well in other cities in Indonesia, Moslem Ladies have their own right to do what they want to do. Its up to them whether they want to wearing hijab or not. Mostly they wear it when they decide they re totally ready to wear it. But in Aceh, its a must. Theres no big malls in Aceh, theres no cinema in there since its forbidden, and cannot congrats happy new year, happy valentine, happy birthday, merry christmas etc, but however not all of them really using that terms.
But obviously, theres no New Year Celebration there. The public area is close and secure by the guards during that day.
Even so, they said its okay for Non Moslem Ladies to not wear "hijab" or scarf to cover head and hair. But we still have to wear appropriate clothes. Means long skirt, long pants and long shirt. But based on my observation, its better to wear Scarf as well. Just to cover the head at least. It would be much more convenient.
The public transportation re just the same with Jakarta. Can use "angkot" a public car who hope on off, and a bus. But mostly people there using their own car.
The most famous thing in Aceh is their coffee. Its called "Sanger Coffee" and it was totally delicious!!!!! Omg, i love that coffee so muchhhhhh!!!
There re LOTS of coffee shops there and they re always crowded til 2 AM!!! Thats crazy!
How about foods?
There is "nasi gurih" a kind of Nasi Uduk, sea foods since its near to the ocean,
"aceh noodle" the noodle is big and thick, they served with the aceh spices, there re original taste, with prawn or crab;
"Aceh fried rice" is totally amazing, they served with seafoods ;
And dont forget the yummiest meal: " ayam tangkap" fried chicken that fried with the fried leafs.
And its totally funny that some of the shops only served two beverages, which re papaya and cucumber.
Gosh! It took so long for me to write this, since writing needs the idea how and what to write, the memories, and the most important: MOOD.
Well, for indonesian people, Banda Aceh is a familiar city, but not all of us had been there.
Well, like most of us know Banda Aceh is a moslem city, but doesnt mean theres no other religion.
Banda Aceh got a tragic disaster, Tsunami on 2004. It was horrible, more than 230.000 people died on that occasion. But the city has been rebuilt and move on! Become a much better one. Not like other city in Indonesia, Aceh has their own police called Wilayatul Hisbah or Syariah Police. Their job re to punish moslem people if they don't wear "Hijab" or a proper cloth for Moslem Ladies. They have to cover all over the body including hair, arms, legs, and theres no indentation, like boobs or legs or butt or anything improper. And also to punish the prostitute, people who using drugs and alcohol, people who do PDA (Public Display Affection: means no kissing no hugging no "hand in hand" or "gandengan tangan" in Public), punish couple who check in to the Hotel (not "Muhrim" or "husband and wife" ).
Well in other cities in Indonesia, Moslem Ladies have their own right to do what they want to do. Its up to them whether they want to wearing hijab or not. Mostly they wear it when they decide they re totally ready to wear it. But in Aceh, its a must. Theres no big malls in Aceh, theres no cinema in there since its forbidden, and cannot congrats happy new year, happy valentine, happy birthday, merry christmas etc, but however not all of them really using that terms.
But obviously, theres no New Year Celebration there. The public area is close and secure by the guards during that day.
Even so, they said its okay for Non Moslem Ladies to not wear "hijab" or scarf to cover head and hair. But we still have to wear appropriate clothes. Means long skirt, long pants and long shirt. But based on my observation, its better to wear Scarf as well. Just to cover the head at least. It would be much more convenient.
The public transportation re just the same with Jakarta. Can use "angkot" a public car who hope on off, and a bus. But mostly people there using their own car.
The most famous thing in Aceh is their coffee. Its called "Sanger Coffee" and it was totally delicious!!!!! Omg, i love that coffee so muchhhhhh!!!
There re LOTS of coffee shops there and they re always crowded til 2 AM!!! Thats crazy!
How about foods?
There is "nasi gurih" a kind of Nasi Uduk, sea foods since its near to the ocean,
"aceh noodle" the noodle is big and thick, they served with the aceh spices, there re original taste, with prawn or crab;
"Aceh fried rice" is totally amazing, they served with seafoods ;
And dont forget the yummiest meal: " ayam tangkap" fried chicken that fried with the fried leafs.
And its totally funny that some of the shops only served two beverages, which re papaya and cucumber.
