Expert Team Accounting For Revitalization Of The HI Roundabout Bus Stop Procedure: Options 2, Lowered Or Unloaded

Illustration of one of the TransJ stops (Photo by Eko Herwantoro on Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The Cultural Heritage Expert Team (TACB) and the DKI Jakarta Restoration Session Team (TSP) said the TransJakarta Bus Stop revitalization project at the Hotel Indonesia (HI) roundabout violated cultural heritage procedures because it did not go through the trial in the team.

"So, all objects suspected of cultural heritage should have been through the Restoration Session Team," said TSP Chairman Boy Bhirawa when contacted in Jakarta, Thursday, September 29, as reported by Antara.

What is being questioned is the height. According to him, the height of the busway bus stop building, which is still in the construction stage, covers the HI Roundabout area, including the Welcome Statue.

The area, he said, is an object suspected of being a Cultural Conservation (ODCB) whose treatment is the same as a cultural heritage.

"So, the visual object of the cultural heritage should not be covered up," said Boy.

Meanwhile, Candrian Cultural Heritage Expert member Attahiyyat said there are several options that may be implemented, for example, the building is lowered or demolished.

Even so, the revitalization project has now been built and is being accelerated.

"Indeed, this is a visual problem for history," he said when contacted.

The historian of Jakarta, JJ Rizal, asked DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan to stop the construction of the revitalization of the HI Roundabout Busari Bus Stop and the Tosari Bus Stop, which are still in the process.

JJ Rizal assessed that the revitalization of the Transjakarta bus stop near the Hotel Indonesia roundabout area damaged the view towards the Welcome Statue.

"Mr Governor Anies Baswedan, please stop the construction of the Transjakarta Tosari-Bundaran HI bus stop which destroys views on the welcome statue and Henk Hangak Fontein, President Soekarno's legacy, with Governor Henk Ntik as the axis to mark the change of the colonial capital to the national capital," wrote JJ Rizal on his Twitter account.

The Welcome Statue is an important object because it is not only the work of President Soekarno and maestro Edi Sunarso, and Henk Ntang, but also a symbol of the nation, a friendly spirit of carrying out world order based on independence, eternal peace, and social justice.

Meanwhile, Hotel Indonesia is not only the initial symbol of post-cohol modern Indonesian tourism, but also the architecture of Abel Sorensen, an architect at the UN headquarters in New York.