Jakarta Art Building

Every weekend , Saturday and Sunday, many artists gather in Art building in Jakarta either to express or to display their art works. In addition to its reachable place, the Art building is known by the Jakarta residents as the house of the artists. It is located on Gedung Kesenian,no.1, central Jakarta. The idea of constructing this building was first from the Dutch Governor General, Daendels. The idea was then realized by the England Governor General, Thomas Stanford Raffles in 1814. At the time of the Dai Nipon military colony the building functioned as the military base and at the time of independence era it functioned both as the lecturing room for the students of Economy and Law faculties of Indonesia University and as cinema. The first name of this building was Municipal Theatre, Schouwburg, or it was popular with "Gedung Komidi" (Comedy Building), and in the Japan colony it was known as Kiritsu Gekitzyoo, and it became the cinema "Dana" and the City theater. In 1984 the building was renovated and was refunctioned as the art stage, and the name became Jakarta Art Building up to now.

National Monument (Monas)

The National Monument is one of the monuments in Jakarta erected to commemorate the Indonesian people fighting against the Dutch colonialist. The monument is located in central Jakarta, it is at the Lapangan monas (Monas square). The monument, with its unique style and is 137 m in height , was made of marbles with phallus form symbolizing the fertilizing. The flaming torch shape weighing 14.5 kg and is plated with 35 kg gold is placed on the top of the monument . The torch symbolizes the Indonesian people fighting for independence. The monument, erected at a 80-hectare land was officially opened for public on 12 July 1975, is known as Tugu Monas. The architect for this monument was Soedarsono and F. Silaban and the consultant was Ir. Rooseno. Before it is popular with Tugu Monas, the monument had five names, they were Lapangan Gambir, Lapangan Ikada, Lapangan Merdeka, Lapangan Monas and Taman Monas. Parks, two ponds and the open-air sport field surrounds the monument. This monument become the well-known tourist object for the holiday goers in Jakarta . Inside the monument is the museum and a hall for meditation and it is equipped with the elevator. At the top of the monument the Jakarta city is seen to be more crowded. The monument daily opens at 9:00 am - 04:00 pm.

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