Jakarta administration is ready to hold the first Pekan Rakyat Jakarta 2014 (Jakarta Folk Fair 2014) at the National Monument (Monas) from 10 tp 15 June. The event will have 3,600 stands, mainly consisting of small enterprises, small industries and street vendors, 400 state-owned companies, as well as 70 sponsorship companies. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Deputy…
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If Jakarta Fair is too Far, The Jakarta Creative Product Exhibition is your best options
Jakarta Governor, Joko Widodo, ensure Jakarta administration will held a folk festival started in 2014. He arranged for the event can be accessed by the general public for free of charge. He said that if there is an entrance fee it will be Rp. 1000 and Rp. 2000. Jokowi said, this time he had made…
Explore the beauty of the National Monument with Delman
If you visit the National Monument or Medan Merdeka Square, you will undoubtedly encounter the traditional two/four-wheeled horse drawn vehicle. Delman name itself comes from the name of its inventor; Charles Theodore Deeleman, an engineer in the Dutch East Indies era. The Dutch themselves call this vehicle as dos-à-dos and in the Betawi language became…
Monumen Nasional: An Icon of Indonesian Capital
Monumen Nasional (National Monument) or popularly abbreviated with Monas or Monas Statue is a memorial statue with at 132 meters (433 feet) height, which was established to commemorate the struggle of the people of Indonesia to win independence from the Dutch East Indies colonial government. Monas was built on August 17, 1961 and opened to…
Gambir Station
Gambir Station is located at Jl. Medan Merdeka Timur, Jakarta Pusat/Central Jakarta and was first built in 1930 under the name Koningsplein Station. In the 1990s Gambir stations renovated as part of the elevated rail project for the Central Cross-distance trains. This renovation makes this station as the main and the largest station located in…
Jakarta by Train 