Manggarai Station is a heritage building, since the station also play vital role during the Independence War in Indonesia. In the main station building, just a side of the commercial area, you will see the original floor of the Manggarai Station. Although the floor is preserved, but I don’t think that many people notice that….
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Lady Raffles Memorial Monument: “Forget me not”
If you ever go to Bogor Botanical Garden, a must place to visit within the park is the Lady Raffles Memorial Monument. If you enter to the main entrance, you will see the lovely memorial monument built by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles , a Lieutenant Governor of the East Indies, which in power from 1818…
Monumen Tugu Lonceng Cilebut: The Forgotten Monument
Who would have thought that not far from the Cilebut station it stands a monument called the Monumen Tugu Lonceng or Bell Monument. There is a sign around this monument which explain this objects as cultural heritage protected by the Government. Although the name contains the word “bell”, unfortunately there was no bell at the…
Monumen Jalur Trem: The Last Remaining Tram Railway
Currently Jakarta is trying so hard to solve transportation problems. One solution that was offered was to rebuild the tram line. For some observers, the government’s idea is very reasonable because the load capacity is quite high. Kompas reported, the city tram can transport 80,000 passengers per hour, monorail 40,000 passengers per hour, a hard…
Monumen Pembebasan Irian Barat: Important but Forgotten
Monumen Pembebasan Irian Barat or West Irian Liberation Monument is a monument built to remember the struggles of the Trikora fighters and the people of West Irian. The monument is located in the center of Lapangan Banteng. The initial idea came from Soekarno fo the creation of this monument, and it was then translated by…
Jakarta by Train 