The Maritime Museum

The Maritime museum is located not far from Sunda Kelapa port in Jakarta Kota. Built in 1652, the museum was the two buildings and functioned as the Trade affairs office and as the warehouses for the various spices belonging to the Dutch colonialist. Up to now, the Maritime museum has been renovated several times and the year of the renovation is available at the entrance gate, among of which are 1718, 1719 and 1771.
The warehouses is called Westzidsch Pakhuizen or west part river warehouses. The warehouses once housed the tea, coffee, white pepper and even clothes. The wall surrounding the building was the Jakarta city border known the city wall.
The Syahbandar Tower, built in 1839 and functioned as the controlling station for the ships going in and out of the Sunda Kelapa port, is in front of the museum.
The museum located on jalan Pasar Ikan, north Jakarta was officially inaugurated by the Jakarta governor, Ali Sadikin, on July 7 1977. The museum exhibits various ships from all over Indonesia, photos and pictures of old-time ports.
The existence of the fortress in the "Ontrus"t island is explained in details. One of the unique collections is the history of the "Onrust" island existence, one of the islands in "Seribu" island. The island used to be the Dutch fortress and the dockyard. Up to now the remaining of the fortress is still found in the island.
The location of the museum is reachable. From the Kota railway station, the 015 minibus (mikrolet), kota- Tanjung Priok routes, will take you to the museum to the Sunda Kelapa port. From Sunda Kelapa port, you can get there on foot because it is only a few meters away. In front of the museum you can find some vendors selling oysters and other sea food, and you can buy them if you wan.
The museum opens on Mondays-Thursdays at 08:00 am- 02:00 pm, on Fridays it opens until 11:00 am and on Saturdays it opens up to 01:00 pm. The ticket price for students is Rp. 1000 and for public is Rp. 2000. And the ticket price will be cheaper when you come there up to more than 20 people.
Another museum that becomes one of the tourist objects in Jakarta is Joang'45 (1945 Finghting) museum. The building , which was the luxurious Schomper Hotel in the Dutch colony, was officially inaugurated as the museum by President Soeharto on August 19, 1974. Because of having a very important role in defending the Indonesia independece, the building is then functioned as the Joang 45 museum. This museum is hoped to preserve the 1945 value of the struggling spirit.
And in the Japan colony the building functioned as the Japan Propaganda Institution office (Sendenbu). The building was then handed over by the Japan authority to the Indonesian youths and it became educational building. The building was known as the Indonesia New Batch Dormitory. Instead of being used to help the Japanese military, the building functioned as a place of education in preparing the Indonesia Independence. The lecturers were Ir Soekarno, Drs. Moh. Hatta, Mr. Mph Tamin, Mr. Soenario, Mr. Achmad Subardio, Mr. Sjafruddin, M.Z. Jambek, Mr. Dayoh, etc. Then the lessons taught were expanded to every part of Indonesia with one main aim, it was the Indonesia independence.
The Banteng (Bull) organization, aimed at planting the nationalism and anti Japan, was declared in this building. A day after the independence day, on August 18, 1945, the Committee of Van Aksi aiming at defending the independence was also established in this building. On August 22, 1945 this building began to function as the Youth headquater and then was known as the Menteng 31 Youth. On 20 September 1945, the Japanese military raided the building and detained the member of the Menteng 31 Youth. The museum exhibits some collections used in fighting for independence such as war equipment, attribute, flags etc.The very attractive collection is the official car of the first Indonesia president, Ir. Soekarno and Vice President Moh. Hatta with the police numbers "REP 1" and "REP 2". Other collections are documentary photos and paintings of the 1945-1950 fighting, some busts of the independence fighters. The museum also manages the Muhammad Husni Thamrin museum located on jalan Kenari 2, no. 5, central Jakarta. The Muhammad Husni Thamrin museum displays the documentary photos of M.H Thamrin fighting for the Indonesia independence.

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