Jambi Hotels
Jambi Province lies on the east coast of the central Sumatran region and its capital is Jambi city.
Prior to Ducth occupuation, Kambi was part of the well-known and very powerful Srivijayan kingdom that traded in commodities throughout the Strait of Malacca and further. During early years of Dutch occupation, Jambi had numerous groups of traders including British, Arabs, Chinese, and Malays, who also competed against each other. The main commodity for trade was pepper and by 1906 the entire region of Jambi and Palembang were under direct colonial rule.
The city flourished in trading also because of its fantastic location along the busy seaway between India and China. The various colours of a unique history of rule by Indian, and Dutch have lent a wonderful flavour to this city. One of the jewels from those ancient days is the Muaro jambi, a large temple complex located many kilometres further from the current capital is considered as the centre of Buddhist learning back in the days of the famous Chinese monk I-Tsing around 671.
By eleventh century, Jambi was fully functioning as an entreport and producing its own export materials. These exports included a variety of resins from trees to be used as incense, tortoise-shells, gardenia flowers and spices such as cloves, clove oil, and cardamom. Jambi traders imported cotton, various fabrics, and blades for swords from Arab traders while Chinese traders gave them silk, and thread, which could have been used to make silk brocades with gold supplementary weft. This became world famous as “Songket” later.