a Book : ONDERAFDEELING BAGANSIAPIAPI

COUNTRY'S LARGEST FISH PRODUCER IN THE WORLD

 This book tells the story of Onderafdeeling Bagansiapiapi conditions, an entity in the Rokan River Estuary reaches heyday as the country's largest fish producer in the world in the era of the Dutch East Indies. Starting from the arrival of Chinese sailors around the year 1875 (Vleming), which with a wealth of natural resources fish fauna in the Rokan estuary, Strhength of human resources, capital and political developments in the Area East Coast of Sumatra, making Onderafdeeling Bagansiapiapi into an area that developed and developing countries on track cross the Straits of Malacca. Nevertheless, fishing is not the only livelihood for residents, also recorded Rubber plantations, copra and coloring economy Pinang joined the population, ranging from "Hulu Sungai" Rokan to "Hilir" region. Onderafdeeling Bagansiapiapi divided into three sub-districts, namely the Bangko,  Tanah Poetih and Koeboe Sub-district, inhabited by Malays as the indigenous people of this region. The interesting thing is, on the book cover shows the image of the Port Bagansiapiapi the Year 1924, which was a trading port and bustling Fisherman. As for his condition at the present time has been changed to the mainland by a dense residential population. This condition is according to Butcher (1996) one of which is suspected due to the silting that occurs in Rokan estuary that has been going on since 100 years ago, when deforestation in upstream areas of rivers as a logical consequence of meeting the needs of large quantities of wood for the development of fish industry and housing development .

Author : Tressi A.Hendraparya
Publisher  : Soreram Media
                 Jalan Putrinilam No.51 Pekanbaru 28128 - Indonesia
                 Contact Person: 0813-7134-5316
Printed by : PT.Pekanbaru Grafika
159 pages,  20 x 14 cm
ISBN: 978-602-9968-0-7
September,  2011
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