The Gold Dinar remained the
official Islamic currency until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1924,
when it disappeared for 77 years. Indonesia as a country with highest muslim
population in the world must have a big history about Islam economic. Nowadays
most of Indonesian people do not know that Dinar and Dirham were ever made and
applied in Indonesia as a legal money more than 600 years ago. Since the 14th
centuries, the ancestors had been familiar with both kind of money.
In Ying Yai Sheng Lan book,
written by Ma Huan, the office clerk and translator of Admiral Cheng Ho, during
his visiting to North Sumatera (1405-1433), said that Samudera Pasai used Dinar
with 70% gold, and Keueh made from tin (1 Dinar = 1600 Keuehs). As we know,
Cheng Ho was a voyager. He was born around 1371 in China’s southwestern Yunan
Province (just north of Laos) with the name Ma Ho.
Samudera
Pasai published first Dinar as Sultan Muhammad held the power (1297-1326). In
the period of Sultan Ahmad Malik az-Zahir, Dinar was better known as Derham
Mas, published in 2 form, Derham and half Derham (1346-1383). Then when Aceh
conquered Samudera Pasai (1524), tradition of publishing Derham Mas spread out
to entire Sumatera and Malaka Peninsula, even Derham was still applied till
Nippon army got landed in Seulilmeum, Aceh Besar, on 1942. Today, the use of
gold unit (1 gold = 2.5 gr) can still be found in West Sumatera, as a
measurement of trading, especially for land trading.
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