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Top 10 sights in Jakarta

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   Istiqlal Mosque

   The largest mosque in Southeast Asia, opened in 1978 after seventeen years of building, its dome forty-five metres across for the year of independence. It holds up to two hundred thousand, and lends its car park to the Catholic cathedral across the road at Christmas.

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   National Monument of Indonesia

   An obelisk of a hundred and thirty-two metres in the middle of Merdeka Square, opened in 1975, topped by a bronze flame clad in gold leaf. A lift climbs to a viewing deck, and a diorama museum of the independence struggle sits in the base.

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   National Museum of Indonesia

   Indonesia's national museum, founded by a Batavian learned society in 1778 and the largest collection in the country. It is nicknamed the elephant building after the bronze elephant the king of Siam gave it in 1871; a fire in 2023 closed part of it for a year.

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   Merdeka Palace

   The Dutch governor-general's palace of 1873 on what was Koningsplein. The Netherlands signed sovereignty over to Indonesia in this building in December 1949, and the flag is raised in front of it every 17 August. It is the president's official residence and is not open.

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   Merdeka Square

   A square of about one square kilometre at the centre of Jakarta, laid out by the Dutch as the Koningsplein and renamed at independence. The 132-metre National Monument rises from the middle, with parkland, a musical fountain and a deer enclosure around it.

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   Jakarta History Museum

   A museum in Jakarta's old town, opened in 1974 in the building put up as the Batavia city hall in 1710. It covers the region from prehistory through the founding of Jayakarta in 1527 and the Dutch colonial centuries to independence in 1945.

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   Taman Mini Indonesia Indah

   A cultural park opened in 1975 on the proposal of the president's wife, with a pavilion for every province and an artificial lake shaped like the archipelago. It is the fastest way to grasp how many Indonesias there are.

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   Ragunan Zoo

   A zoo of a hundred and forty hectares in south Jakarta and the largest green space in the city. It descends from a collection begun in 1864 and runs a primate centre for orangutans and gibbons.

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   Jakarta Cathedral

   The Catholic cathedral of Jakarta, consecrated in 1901 in neo-Gothic with twin iron-framed spires. It stands directly opposite the great mosque, and on major festivals each congregation parks in the other's grounds.

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    Sunda Kelapa

    The old harbour at the mouth of the Ciliwung, the port of the Sunda kingdom before the Dutch took it in 1619. Wooden pinisi schooners still load cargo along its quay by hand, as they have for generations.

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   Glodok

   District of Jakarta that has been the Chinese quarter since 1740, when the Dutch confined survivors of a massacre here. Its lanes hold herbalists, temples and an electronics market.

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   Kalibata Heroes Cemetery

   The national heroes' cemetery in south Jakarta, opened in 1954, where those who fought in the independence struggle and later officers of state are buried. The first grave was that of a foreign minister who died days before it opened.

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   Immanuel Church

   A Protestant church at Gambir in Jakarta and one of the oldest in the country, built in the Weltevreden district in the nineteenth century. Its domed neoclassical rotunda was completed in 1839 and it still holds services in Dutch, Indonesian and English.

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   Satriamandala Museum

   The main museum of the Indonesian armed forces, opened in 1972 on a five-hectare site in south Jakarta, with weapons, vehicles and dioramas of the independence war. The house at its centre belonged to one of Sukarno's wives.

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   Messiah Cathedral

   A reformed evangelical megachurch in Kemayoran, opened in 2008 and serving a largely Chinese Indonesian congregation. Despite the name it has no bishop's seat; its concert hall doubles as the sanctuary.

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   Gereja Sion

   A Protestant church of 1695 in the old town, the oldest building in Jakarta still used for its original purpose. It was built for freed slaves of Portuguese descent, and its baroque pulpit and organ loft are intact.

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   National Gallery of Indonesia

   The national gallery, opened in 1999 in a nineteenth-century Dutch school and orphanage on the east side of Merdeka Square. Some seventeen hundred works, with Raden Saleh's romantic canvases and Affandi's thick impasto as the anchors.

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   Fatahillah Square

   The central square of old Batavia, in the middle of Jakarta's old town. The Jakarta History Museum, the Wayang Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics stand around it, and the paving fills with cyclists for hire in the evenings.

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   Museum Bank Indonesia

   A museum in the former head office of the Bank of Java, the central bank of the Dutch East Indies, opened in 2009. It runs through Indonesian monetary history in a building that is itself the best-restored in the old town.

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    Maritime Museum

    A museum in the old Sunda Kelapa harbour quarter of Jakarta, in warehouses built by the Dutch East India Company. It deals with Indonesia's maritime history and with what the sea means to the economy now.

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