South Sumatra Province covers an area of 87.017 km2. It is bordered Jambi Province on the north, Lampung Province on the south, Bengkulu Province on the west and Bangka Strait on the east. Palembang, the capital of this province used to be known as the site of Sriwijaya, a great Kingdom that ruled over and united maritime smaller kingdoms of Indonesian Archipelago in the seventh to the thirteenth century. This great kingdom played an important role in the Southeast Asia:
