Tour in Indonesia
Indonesia is a big archipelago
country with thousand of islands and hundred millions citizen, a lot
of interesting places can be found in this country, I'm trying to give
you some virtual tours to visiting several exotic places in Indonesia,
lets we started with Jakarta the capital city of Indonesia.
This is Jakarta Monuments Tour page, the other tour can be found if
you click on the menu below:
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Jakarta Monuments Tour |
Jakarta have big and large monuments in
every side of the city, every monument has a special theme and
unique shape, most of these beautiful statues and sculptures are
made by bronze, lets we see the uniquely landmarks in Jakarta:
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Monumen Nasional (National Monument) |
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Monumen Nasional or National Monument
is located in the center of Jakarta, in the front of Presidential
Palace and government office buildings area. This tower construction was started
in Augusts 17, 1961 by President Soekarno and Soedarsono dan Silaban as
the architect to representing the sprit of Indonesian freedom, symbolizing by the torch
with flame on the top, this monument also symbolize the lingga
(phallus) and yoni (vulva) to represent the fertility of
Indonesia soil, or as rice pestle with the base, also to representing the
fertility and prosperity of Indonesia, finished to built at July 12, 1975 in
President Soeharto Era. The tower high is 137 meters (450 feet), the
fire flame is made from 14.5 tons bronze and covered with 35 kilograms
(1125 troy ounces) gold plate, the square plate base is 45 X 45 meters
wide and 17 meters tall, and the National History room in the inside
has 8 meters height.
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Links:
Link 1: Ciko's 3D Warehouse
Link 2: Wikipedia - Monumen Nasional
Link 3: Skyscrapercity - Monas photos
Link 4: Virtual Tourist - Jakarta Travel Guide
Link 5: Rara - Jalan-jalan ke Monas
Link 6: Indosiar.com - Monas Ku Dulu Monas Ku Kini
Link 7: Livedoor Pic - id62's Photos |
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| Patung Selamat Datang (Welcome
Statue) |
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Patung Dirgantara (Dirgantara Monument)
Dirgantara = sky, atmosphere |
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This statue headed to the North with
its hand pointed to former Kemayoran International Airport (now became
a business central, exhibition and apartemens area), located near
National Air Force Office in the South and Halim Perdana Kusuma
Domestic Airport in the South East. Representing the power of
Indonesian air force, symbolizing by a strong and brave man that
flying and exploring the sky. President Soekarno want to showing to
the world if Indonesia as a big archipelago country is protected by
the strong air forces and serviced by solid air transportations that
connecting each islands in Indonesia.
Located at Pancoran district this monument also called as Pancoran
statue, The statue have 11 meters tall and made from 11 tons bronze,
with 27 meters high arc shape concrete base. Designed by Edhi Sunarso,
contructed by Keluarga Arca artists from Yogyakarta, and supervised by
President Soekarno himself, the statue finished in two year
(1964-1965). There is a rumor that President Soekarno must sold his
car to covering the increased construction cost for this monument.
Sadly today this monument is buried under several layer of fly over
toll roads, you can see it in the Photo Gallery.
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Links:
Link 1: Mata-mata.com - Monumen Dirgantara
Link 2: MediaIndonesiaOnline - Patung Pancoran
Link 3: Winarsih Blog - Tugu Miring Pancoran |
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Patung Pembebasan Irian Barat
(West Irian Liberation Statue) |
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This bronze statue commemorated the
freedom of Irian Jaya (West Irian or now named as Papua) from Dutch
occupation in 1963, symbolize by a man with broken chain that raising
his hands expressing the freedom.
Located on Lapangan Banteng (Bull/wild ox Square) near Hotel Borobudur
and Ministry of Finance building, this area formerly used for bus
terminal and now for agriculture planting and exhibition place.
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Patung Pahlawan a.k.a. Patung Pak
Tani
(Hero Statue a.k.a. Farmer Statue) |
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The official name for this statue is
Hero Statue (Patung Pahlawan), but because of the man shapes on this
statue wearing a Caping (conical shape traditional farmer hat made
from woven bamboo), so people called this statue as Farmer Statue (Patung
Pak Tani). This statue commemorated the struggle for Independence by
Indonesian people, symbolize by a man wearing Caping with a riffle on
his shoulder, that taking a food from a plate that given by a women
beside him. The story behind this statue was started when President
Soekarno was attended to Moscow and impressed to the statues in that
city, so The President of Russia was introduce him to the artist that
made the statues, Matvei Manizer and his son Otto Manizer. President
Soekarno invited them to Jakarta to built a statue that representing
the spirit of freedom, this two artists was exploring the rural
villages in Indonesia and found a legend from West Java that tell a
story about a mother that accompany her son to go to war, the mother
inspire her son to get strong spirit to win all wars, also always
remember to his parent and his country. This bronze statue was built
in Russia and brought to Indonesia by cargo ship, officially opened at
1963 by President Soekarno. On the plate on this monument is writen "Bangsa
yang menghargai pahlawannya adalah bangsa yang besar" (The country
that has citizen which giving respect for all of their heroes can be
called as a great country).
(compiled from "Seribu Wajah Jakarta" Magazine - 1981)
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Patung Pemuda Membangun
(Statue of Nation Development by the Youth) |
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This statue built to give appreciation
for the young man and woman that contributing in the Indonesian
development, symbolize by a strong young man holding a saucer with
eternal flame to representing the spirit of developing that never die.
The statue is made from steel-framed concrete covered with terrazzo
layer, started to built at July 1971 by the team of Engineer, Artist
and Architect (Biro IBA) with Imam Supardi as the team leader and
Munir Pamuncak as implementation header, planed to opened at "Hari
Sumpah Pemuda" (Youth Pledge Day) at Oktober 28, 1971, but the statue
was not finished yet and officially opened March 1972. This statue is
located at Senayan roundabout, the strategic place as the road point
connection of Senayan as the gate of Central jakarta and the South of
Jakarta area.
(compiled from "Seribu Wajah Jakarta" Magazine - 1981)
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