Bogor Regency historically is one area that became the center of the oldest kingdoms in Indonesia. There are pads Note Sung Dynasty in China and inscriptions found in the river Tempuran Ciaruteun with Cisadane, showed that at the beginning of the 5th century AD in this area there has been a form of government. Historian Prof. Dr. Slamet Muljana in his book From Holotan to conclude Holotan Jayakarta is the Chinese transliteration of the word Aruteun, and Aruteun kingdom is one of the oldest Hindu kingdoms in Java.
History of Bogor Regency
Historian Prof. Dr. Slamet Muljana in his book From Holotan to conclude Holotan Jayakarta is the Chinese transliteration of the word Aruteun, and Aruteun kingdom is one of the oldest Hindu kingdoms in Java. Inscription Ciaruteun is historical evidence of the transfer of power from kingdom to kingdom Tarumanagara Aruteun under King Purnawarman, approximately half of the end of the 5th century.
While other opinion says Bogor derived from the word "Bokor" which means palm tree stump (kawung). In another version of the name of Bogor has appeared in a document dated April 7, 1952, a written "Hoofd Van de Negorij Bogor" which means roughly village head of Bogor, which according to the information then that the Bogor village was located in Bogor Botanical Gardens location that was built in 1817.
Bogor Regency historically is one area that became the center of the oldest kingdoms in Indonesia. There are pads Note Sung Dynasty in China and inscriptions found in the river Tempuran Ciaruteun with Cisadane, showed that at the beginning of the 5th century AD in this area there has been a form of government.
Long history of the Sung Dynasty recorded in 430, 433, 434, 437, and 452 the Kingdom Holotan sent emissaries to China.
Historian Prof. Dr. Slamet Muljana in his book From Holotan to conclude Holotan Jayakarta is the Chinese transliteration of the word Aruteun, and Aruteun kingdom is one of the oldest Hindu kingdoms in Java. Inscription Ciaruteun is historical evidence of the transfer of power from kingdom to kingdom Tarumanagara Aruteun under King Purnawarman, approximately half of the end of the 5th century.
Other inscriptions Purnawarman relics are inscriptions in District Cibungbulang, Inscription Cashew Hill Koleangkak (Sand Gintung, District Leuwiliang), and Lebak inscription (in the middle of the river Cidanghiyang, Banten Province).
In the 6th century and 7th kingdom Tarumanagara a single ruler in West Java. After Tarumanagara, in later centuries the famous royal ever to appear in the Land of Sundanese (West Java) is Sundanese, Padjadjaran, Galuh, and Kawali.
Everything can not be separated from the presence of Bogor and the surrounding region. The early history of the founding of the Bogor Regency, set on June 3, inspired from the date of the inauguration of the famed King Padjadjaran King Siliwangi held on June 3, 1482 for nine days, called the ceremony "Kedabhakti".
Bogor name is variously derived from the word "Buitenzorg" the official name of the Dutch colonialists. Another opinion is derived from the word "Bahai" which means cow, which happened to be a statue of a cow in the Bogor botanical garden.
While other opinion says Bogor derived from the word "Bokor" which means palm tree stump (kawung). In another version of the name of Bogor has appeared in a document dated April 7, 1952, a written "Hoofd Van de Negorij Bogor" which means roughly village head of Bogor, which according to the information then that the Bogor village was located in Bogor Botanical Gardens location that was built in 1817.
The origin of their community Bogor Regency, its origin is from the merger of nine groups of Settlement by the Governor-General Baron Van Inhof in 1745, thus becoming the unity of the people who grow big at a time. Community unity that is the core of the Bogor Regency society.
Bogor Government Center originally was located in the city of Bogor is precisely in Panaragan, then under Government Regulation No. 6 of 1982, the capital city of Bogor moved and set in Cibinong. Since 1990 the central government activities occupy Government Offices in Cibinong.
