this is a small town in west sumatra, indonesia, sawahlunto. The city is located 95 km northeast of Padang city, surrounded by 3 districts in West Sumatra, namely Tanah Datar district, Solok district, and Sijunjung district. Sawahlunto city has an area of ​​273.45 km² consisting of 4 districts with a population of more than 54,000 inhabitants. During the Dutch East Indies government, the city of Sawalunto was known as a coal mining town. This city had died, after coal mining stopped.

Currently the city of Sawahlunto developed into a multi-ethnic old tourist town, so it became one of the best old town in Indonesia. In the city that was founded in 1888, there are many old buildings built Dutch relics. Partly has been designated as a cultural heritage by local authorities in order to encourage tourism and launch Sawahlunto into a "Cultured Cultural Tourism City"
The embryo of Sawahlunto as a city is related to research conducted by some Dutch geologists to the interior of Minangkabau (then known as the Padang Plateau), as assigned by the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies. The first study was conducted by Ir. C. De Groot van Embden in 1858, then continued by Ir. Willem Hendrik de Greve in 1867. In the research of De Greve, it is known that there are 200 million tons of coal contained around the flow of Batang Ombilin, one of the rivers in Sawahlunto. Since the research was announced to Batavia in 1870, the Dutch East Indies government began planning the construction of facilities and infrastructure that could facilitate the exploitation of coal in Sawahlunto.