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Tidore celebrates 909th anniversary, opens World Maritime Museum
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Tidore, which names a city, island and archipelago located in the Maluku islands of Eastern Indonesia, is celebrating its 909th anniversary on April 12. (Shutterstock/Anges van der Logt)
Tidore, an island and a city located in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia, is celebrating its 909th anniversary on April 12.
To commemorate this special day, the city council is opening a World Maritime Museum. “The World Maritime Museum shows that Tidore has a long maritime history,” says Tidore Island tourism department head Yakub Husain.
According to history, the sultanate of Tidore’s territory used to include western Papua. During a Spanish invasion, the kingdom refused to cooperate with Spain and became one of the most independent kingdoms in the region, refusing direct control by the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
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On the anniversary day, apart from the opening of the museum, there was also a closing ceremony for the Tidore Festival 2017. The festival that was held on April 10 and 11, with a main theme of nurturing tradition, emboldening the historic maritime nation’s identity.
One of the highlighted events during the two-day festival was the Juanga parade. About 100 Juanga boats, all of them owned by the Tidore people, traveled the waters surrounding the sultanates of Ternate and Tidore. One of the boats was carrying the 37th sultan of Tidore, Husain Sjah, who arrived in Ternate and was welcomed by the town’s mayor, Burhan Abdurahman. (asw)
