Selat Panjang

Selat Panjang is the capital of Kepulauan Meranti Regency, or, in other words the territory of Riau in Indonesia. The regime is another rule in Riau region which was set up in 2009 and it has been isolated from Bengkalis Regency. Tebing Tinggi island is isolated by a limited channel from Sumatra, and is west of Singapore checkpoint the Strait of Malacca. The city of Selat Panjang is the managerial seat of the Meranti Islands Regency.

It used to be one of the cityBandar are the most occupied and mainstream exchange the Sultanate of Siak. Since the primary Bandar has framed a heterogeneous society, particularly the Malays and Chinese, since they are the job of between shaped intently in agreement social exercises and exchange. This is indistinguishable resilience between clique. It is this factor which at that point encourages exchange and movement and additionally human merchandise from China to the archipelago and the other way around.

Selat Panjang and the encompassing zone was once in the past a region of the Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura which is one of the biggest realm in Riau amid the rule of Sultan Siak VII of Sultan Sharif Ali Abdul Jalil Assyaidis Syaifuddin Baalawi who reigned in 1784-1810, ordinarily called Sultan Sharif Ali, offered order to the Commander of Tengku Muda Good Saiyid Thoha to build up the State or the merchant at the High Cliff Island.