Palembang is the provincial capital of South Sumatra. Palembang is the second largest city in Sumatra after Medan. History was once the capital of Palembang's maritime Srivijaya empire that dominates the archipelago and the Malay peninsula in the 9th century also makes this city known by the nickname "Earth Sriwijaya". Based on the inscriptions found on the Mount Kedukan Siguntang Hill west of Palembang, which declared the establishment of a Wanua is interpreted as a city on June 16, 682 before christ, making the city of Palembang as the oldest city in Indonesia. In the Western world, the city of Palembang is also nicknamed the Venice of the East (Indonesian: "Venice of the East").
