Palembang love poem

Love poem translated into Musi (Palembang, Palembangnese, Sekayu, Pegagan, Penukal, Coastal Malay, Rawas, Kelingi, Lama, Meranjat, Penesak, Belide, Burai), a Malay dialect influenced by the Javanese. This language of southern Sumatra, is spoken by 3 million people, in the capital of this Indonesian region, Palembang! Musi, the other name sometimes given to this language, is also that of the river which crosses the town of Palembang.

Palembang was the capital of the kingdom of Srivijaya, and at the end of the 12th century its importance diminished in favor of Jambi. Then the town will be plagued by chinese pirates, by the Dutch and English.