The History of Jakarta Kota Station

Jakarta Kota Station also known as Beos Station, which stands for Bataviasche Ooster Spoorweg Maatschappij (Airline Transport Railway East Batavia) is located in Jl. Taman Stasiun Kota No 1, Jakarta Barat/West Jakarta. Another name for Jakarta Kota station is Batavia Zuid Station or South Batavia Station. Jakarta Kota Station originally built in 1870, then closed…

Design Week 3.2 at Jakarta Kota Station

Association of Indonesian Architects (IAI) Jakarta will held an event called Design Week 3.2. This event is aims to improve insight, skills and competence of the IAI members. In addition, the Design Week 3.2 is also will bring architects, designers, community, and society together with of various valuables activities, such as seminars, talk shows, workshops,…

@KAI121: 2 New Routes for @CommuterLine is Completed 90%

PT Kereta Api Indonesia plans to open two routes for @CommuterLine, namely the Jakarta Kota Station – Tanjung Priok Station and Citayam Station – Nambo Station. Both route is planned to be operational in early April 2015 Head of Public Relations of PT KAI, Bambang S Prayitno, admitted that preparations had been completed 90 percent,…

Monitor the Jakarta Flood 2014 via Digital Map

If you wish to monitor flooding in Jakarta, you can do it through several media such as Television, Twitter, or through a digital map presented by Jakarta Disaster Management Agency or Google Maps. Flood Map 2014 or Peta Banjir 2014, which is the name of the specific page presented by Google Maps. In these pages…

Kali Angke: The Killing Field

The Chinese people who seek their fortune in Batavia already reached 80 thousand people, and in general they work in many sugar factory. Sugar at that time was one of the largest oil fields in Jakarta. But the price of sugar in the international market is decline since there were many sugar available from Malabar,…

Taman Fatahillah: The Center of Old Batavia

Taman Fatahillah or Fatahillah Park, is located before the Jakarta Historical Museum, Museum of Fine Art and Ceramics, and Puppet Museum. The name of this park previously was staadhuisplein (City Hall Park). In the middle of the Park you will see a fountain (no longer use) as a water resources for local Batavians at that…