President Jokowi: Muaro Jambi Temple National Cultural Heritage Area Is The Oldest Education Center In Asia

JAMBI - President Joko Widodo during his visit to the Muaro Jambi Temple National Cultural Conservation Area (KCBN), Jambi Province, stated that the temple is the oldest educational center in Asia.

"Muaro Jambi KCBN used to be an educational center for medicine, medicine, philosophy, architecture, and the arts. That means, our civilization at that time was international and open," said President Joko Widodo at KCBN Muaro Jambi, Jambi Province, Thursday, April 7.

Jokowi explained that Muaro Jambi KCBN was an educational center in the seventh century, including the largest and oldest in Asia. In addition, at the beginning of entering the temple area, it is shown by the presence of rocks that are piled up to form a building.

Quoted by Antara, the stones that were piled up to form the building were made without the use of cement and adhesives. That is, at that time Indonesia was familiar with technology in the field of development.

Muaro Jambi Temple is referred to as Muaro Jambi KCBN, because it has an area of ​​3.981 hectares, where in Muaro Jambi KCBN there are a number of temples that are used as educational centers, including Kedaton Temple, Tinggi Temple, Gumpung Temple, and several other temples.

In fact, there are still several temples that are in the process of restoration and which have not been restored. "This is history that needs to be preserved so that traces of our civilization are not lost," said Joko Widodo.

President Jokowi explained that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology will carry out restoration and restoration of the old canal that surrounds the Muaro Jambi KCBN. It is hoped that the restoration and restoration can further show how big the Muaro Jambi KCBN is.

During his visit to Muaro Jambi KCBN, President Joko Widodo and first lady Iriana Jokowi walked through Kedaton Temple, one of the temples in Muaro Jambi KCBN.

Arriving at Kedaton Temple, President Joko Widodo received a brief explanation regarding the history of Muaro Jambi Temple, the area and civilization of Muaro Jambi Temple at that time.

At Kedaton Temple, President Joko Widodo visited the excavation and saw finds in the form of stones, jugs, and ceramics around the site of the thousands-year-old temple. Furthermore, President Joko Widodo and his mother performed a ritual of washing hands with water from a well in the Kedaton Temple location.

Where the well water is the water brought by the Governor of Jambi Al Haris during the traditional ritual of bringing land and water to the zero point of the new National Capital of the Archipelago (IKN) in East Kalimantan some time ago.

After inspecting the well, the President went to the clock stone, where the clock stone was used by the community at that time to determine the time by utilizing sunlight.