Gunung Padang Site Cianjur Indonesia west java

Mountain site in Kampung Gunung Padang Padang and Kampung Panggulan, Village Karyamukti Campaka District, Cianjur, a megalithic site punden shaped staircase largest in Southeast Asia. This recall purbakalanya building area about 900 m2 with a total area of ​​the site itself less than about 3 ha.

The existence of this site peratama appeared in the report Rapporten van de oudheid-kundigen Dienst (ROD), in 1914, further reported in 1949 NJ Krom. in 1979 related officials in terms of development and research of cultural heritage bend the local cultural overseer followed by ditlinbinjarah and Pulit Arkenas conduct a review to the location of the site. Since that time research efforts towards Padang Mountain site began to do well from the point of archaeological, historical, geological and other.

Berundaknya punden building form reflects the traditions of megalithic (mega means large and lithos means stone), like many found in several areas in West Java. Gunung Padang Site is located 50 kilometers from Cianjur said to be the largest megalithic site in Southeast Asia. Among local communities, the site is trusted as evidence of efforts to build a palace King Siliwangi overnight.

 Helped by his troops, he tried to collect the stone blocks that exist only on the area. However, the night seems to be more fleeting. At dawn tinge the eastern horizon had thwarted his hard efforts, then derah then he left. He let the stones scattered on the hill which is now called the Mount of Padang. Padang means light.

Gunung Padang punden terraces, built with massive volcanic rocks that form a rectangle. The building consists of five terraces with different sizes. The stones have not experienced the touch of human hands in a sense, has not worked or shaped by human hands.

Stone blocks which jumlahya very much that spread almost cover the top of Mount Padang. Locals dub some of the stones of the terraces it with the names of the smell of Islam. For example there are called table Milled Pangancingan Kiai, Chair Eyang Bonang, Jojodog or grandparent Swasana seat, backrest stone Suhaedin Sheikh alias Sheikh Abdul Rusman, grandparent households Sheikh Marzuki, and Sheikh Abdul Fukor stone.