@flona_jakarta 2016: The Garden Festival

The Jakarta Parks Agency will hold the Festival of Flora and Fauna in 2016 at Lapangan Banteng. Flora and Fauna exhibition is a permanent activity that has been organized by the Government of Jakarta since 1985. Flona Jakarta Exhibition 2016 to be held on 5 August  2016 until 5 September 2016. The visitors will not…

Festival Panen Raya Nusantara 2015 held in Lapangan Banteng

A number of civil society organizations collaborate to host Festival Panen Raya Nusantara (Nusantara Harvest Festival) 2015 to market local products produced by the community in Indonesia. The festival will bring hundreds of local manufacturers from various regions with hundreds of species of their products. Not only that, the festival is expected to be an…

Free WiFi at the City Parks

Jakarta Government in cooperation with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) will complement the city parks and other green open space in Jakarta with free internet access facilities. There are at least 14 city parks that are targeted to be installed Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) equipment by PT Telkom. This free internet facilities is relates to Jakarta Smart…

Monumen Tukang Pos

Who can still remember the last time to send a mail through the post office? Is it happened a long time ago because you are no longer send mail that have been replaced by electronic mail that much faster? Even if no longer send mail, you are still remember the services of a postman delivering…

Lapangan Banteng: The Waterloo Square of Batavia

Lapangan Banteng or Banteng Square is located on Jl. Lapangan Banteng Selatan, Jakarta Pusat/Central Jakarta. Bateng Square was built at the time of Lieutenant Governor General Daendels, when the capital moved from Old Town to the Weltevreden area in the early 19th century and named as the Waterlooplein or Lions Square. The square was called…