River-side Wifi

Siak bridge in the sunset

A few days ago, me and my colleague visited one of the beautiful town in Riau.  It is Siak Sri Indrapura, a capitol of Siak Regency in Riau Province, Sumatera. This town known as a place where Malay culture started.  We can find a historical Malay culture, like Siak Palace.  The palace of Sultan Siak which is lately also inspire most of the building model in this regency.  At least, almost every government’s building and mosques are made with similar model of the palace.

Having three days in this town has made me enjoy the town hospitality.  A small but clean and beautiful town located at the side of Siak river.  In the morning, this town is covered by mist.  Old people do the jog and walk or sweep their front yard.  Kids are ready go for school with their Malay type uniform.  Quiet and not busy as the other usual town. 

Public Wifi sign in the river side park

When the sun going down before evening, other beautiful scene comes.  The reflection of sunlight makes orange and yellowish colour on top of the river.  If we sit and have a coffee at the river side park, we can see the famous Siak Bridge as silhouette in front of the sunset.

One interesting situation in this town for the people is the government’s services for technology.  This maybe the only town in this country that having a public Wifi.  You just need to sit down, start your laptop, turn your wireless on, log-in, then you can easily surf the internet freely.  The government of Siak has provided lots of Wifi sign location nearby the bridge.  You can choose to surf the internet in the river side with coffee, or you do it inside the car nearby the bridge.  For login, you just use simple username “siak” and then password “sriindrapura”.

That’s the beauty and interesting place to be visited.  I would recommend you, to visit.