Popular And Widely Visited Historical Tourism In Jakarta On Weekends

YOGYAKARTA - Currently, several historical tourist attractions in Central Jakarta are used as quite popular tourist destinations. Some of them have even been renovated as part of maintenance and also make tourists who come feel more comfortable.

Several places and buildings in this capital hold long and important stories about Indonesia. Below are a number of historical places in Central Jakarta that you can visit on weekends to learn the history of this nation.

Reporting from its official website, the National Museum of Indonesia is a place where 160,000 historical objects are stored from various ages. This building was built on an area of 26,500 square meters and has two main buildings.

It is known that building A is used for exhibition spaces, as for building B which has the name Gedung Arca is used for offices, conference rooms, laboratories, ports, and exhibition halls. The inauguration of the Arca Building was held on June 20, 2007 by the 6th President of the Republic of Indonesia (RI), Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY).

National Museum. (Wikimedia Commons)

The National Monument (Monas) is the most popular icon in Jakarta and is one of the most historic places in Central Jakarta. Monas development aims to commemorate and preserve the struggle of the Indonesian nation during the 1945 independence revolution.

Monas development is also a big project from the 1st President of the Republic of Indonesia, Soekarno, who spent many years in its construction. In the end Monas was inaugurated by the 2nd President of the Republic of Indonesia, Suharto on July 12, 1975 and on the same day it was also opened for public visits.

The Cathedral Church was the first Catholic church in Jakarta to be founded in a weather style building. The inauguration of this place of worship was carried out in 1901 and had a black monument from Belgium in memory of Commissioner General Leonardus Petrus Josephus Burggraaf Du Bus de Gisignies.

The figure is considered a very important figure in the history of the construction of the Cathedral Church. This unique thing from this church is to have a museum built nearby and store various historical objects related to the Cathedral Church. Of course, it is suitable to be a historic tourist destination if you are visiting Central Jakarta.

Right across from the Cathedral Church, you can find the Istiqlal Mosque, one of the historical places in Central Jakarta that can be visited. This mosque was built with a very large size and is known as the largest mosque in Southeast Asia.

The building was built on an area of 9.5 hectares which was previously a Taman Wilhelmina area. The construction process for this mosque also takes up to 17 years, and was completed in 1978.

Istiqlal Mosque. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Many facilities can be used by people around Central Jakarta in this place. Some of them are athletic tracks for running, fountains, and children's play areas that can be used to the public.

Prior to its establishment, the Banteng field was a square used by the elite Batavia in their time to gather, listening to military music on Saturday afternoon.

Reporting from its official website, before becoming the Proclamation Script Forum Museum (Munasprok), this place was used as the official residence of the British Royal consulate. This building was also used as a residence for high-ranking Japanese Navy officer, Rear Admiral Tadashi Maeda.

Rear Admiral Tadashi Maeda allowed his house as a place for the formulation of the text of the proclamation, which on November 24, 1992 was officially used as a museum.

You can visit the Proclamation Monument on Jalan Proclamation Number 10, RT.10/RW.2, Pegangsaan, Menteng, Central Jakarta City. In this place a monument was erected, and a monument regarding Indonesian Independence, before becoming the Proclamation Monument, in this area still stands the former house of the 1st President of the Republic of Indonesia, Soekarno.

In this place, the proclaimers' heroes read the text of the proclamation in front of the Indonesian people.

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