Lalan

The Lalan flows through the wetlands of eastern Sumatra, north of the Musi basin. Old settlements in its river country left remains of houses on posts, pottery, beads and boat fittings, evidence of life among the waterways long before Srivijaya. A Jambi charter dated 1812 describes the Lalan as a boundary between lands associated with Jambi and Palembang. The river thus served both as a route through the lowlands and as a line by which neighbouring powers described their territories.