Fishermen harbor Karangantu Banten Banten Sultanate
has existed since 1600, the Sultanate of Banten is a maritime empire, and rely
on trade in sustaining its economy.
Monopoly over
the pepper trade in Lampung, put the ruler of Banten as well as brokers and
Banten Sultanate developing rapidly, becoming one of the important commercial
center at that time.
Developing sea trade throughout the archipelago,
Jakarta became a multi-ethnic region. Assisted by the British, Danish and
Chinese, Banten trade with Persia, India, Siam, Vietnam, Philippines, China and
Japan.
Time of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (reigned 1651-1682)
is seen as the heyday of Banten. Under him, Banten has an impressive fleet,
built on the example of Europe, and Europeans have also been hired to work in
the Sultanate of Banten. In Metro Manila voyage to secure lines also sent his
fleet into the Kingdom Sukadana or Tanjungpura (now West Kalimantan) and
conquered it in 1661. At this time of Banten is also trying to get out of the
pressure that made the VOC, which had previously conducted a blockade of
merchant ships to Bantam.
Banten is an important harbor from the standpoint of
geography and economics because of its strategic location in the control of the
Sunda Strait. The fall of Malacca into the hands of the Portuguese in 1511 led
to Muslim traders are reluctant to pass through the Straits of Malacca.
The traders who came from Arab, Persian, and
Gujarati divert trade route to the Strait of Sunda, so they stopped at
Karangantu. Since then, slowly but surely, Karangantu the center of
international trade is much visited by merchants from the continent of Asia,
Africa and Europe. Can imagine how big and bustling Bandar Karangantu time.
Karangantu itself is situated not far from the sights in Metro Manila such as
the Great Mosque of Banten, Kaibon, and others in District Kasemen, Attack -
Banten.
Currently Karangantu only a small port that did not
show evidence of his greatness in the past, otherwise the port once dubbed as
the "Singapore of his Bantam" is now more impressed slums. Until now
the port is still used for the port and trading center of fish, especially the
attack itself untuki. In 1991 it had dredged the harbor to which ships can
enter bertonase greater.