Maimun Palace
This place
was originally called sultan Deli Palace, now it is known as Maimoon Palace or
Istana Maimun. Was finished on 28 August 1988 by Sultan Makmun Al Rasyid, first
opened on 18 May 1981 then used as an administrative center untuil the end of
world second war.
Maimun
Palace still occupied by sultan Aziz Pekasa Alam and his family. According to
the history of Maimun Palace and Deli Sultan, there is an interesting story
legend called “Meriam Buntung” (Cannon Stub). It can be found in a small
building in front of the palace. According to the legend: There was a princess
called Putri Hijau from the Great Eastern Kingdon. She was a very beautiful and
her beauty made a king from Aceh fall in love with her. The king asked her to
marry him. Unfortunately, he was rejected. In his anger, he attacked the Great
Eastern Kingdom which was at the time led by Putri Hijau’s Elder Brother,
Mambang Yajid, who had been choosen to become the king after his father passed
away. Finally Aceh won the battle.
When Aceh
was about to attack the Great Western Palace, first miracle happened. Princes
younger brother, Mambang Khayali who had been continuously defending the
palace, suddenly changed in to a Cannon, it kept shooting. The barrel was so
hot that broke into two pieces. On paret, the barrel, flew off and fell on the
mountain near Kabanjahe and the other one (the stub) stayed at the Deli Palace
and is still there now. Eventually, Putri Hijau was arrested, however when the
king took her by ship through the Malacca Strait, the second miracle occurred,
an enormous dragon, which was the incarnation of her brother, King Mambang
Yajid, destroyed the ship taking his sister. Afterwards, Putri Hijau who was in
glass box, was taken in to the sea by the dragon. Some people believe that
Putri Hijau And Mambang Yajid live now in the depth ocean, near Berhala Island
in Serdang Bedagai Regency (by: Antonius Naibaho)