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Gedung Sate is a public building in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. It was designed according to a neoclassical design incorporating native Indonesian elements (such as Hindu-Buddhist elements) by Dutch architect J. Gerber to be the seat of the Dutch East Indies department of State Owned Enterprises ( Departement van Gouvernmentsbedrijven ...
The House of Sampoerna is a tobacco museum and headquarters of Sampoerna located in Surabaya. The main building's architectural style was influenced by a Dutch colonial-style compound that was built in 1862 and is now a preserved historical site.
[5] The museum also contains a replica of the Tugu Inscription (the original being in the National Museum) from the age of Great King Purnawarman, which is the evidence that the center of the Kingdom of Tarumanegara was located around the seaport of Tanjung Priok on the coast of Jakarta [citation needed]. There is also a replica of the 16th ...
Another movement founded by the Japanese government was the People's Power Movement (Poesat Tenaga Rakjat, Poetera) on 9 March 1942. [4] Even though Poetera was largely a political organization, the movement had its own cultural division, with native artist Sodjojono appointed as the head of the fine arta and cultural division. [5] [6] [1]
Bandung contains one of the largest remaining collections of Modernist building (Dutch Nieuwe Bouwen) in the world. [1] European city planning based on garden city concept were implemented in the north part of Bandung, which is still apparent today in the architecture of the residences and villas.
Jakarta History Museum, formerly Batavia City Hall (Stadhuis van Batavia) At the end of the 19th century, great changes were happening across much of colonial Indonesia, particularly Java . Significant improvements to technology, communications and transportation had brought new wealth to Java's cities and private enterprise was reaching the ...
The Gedung Gajah located on the south side, or left from the entrance, is the old wing and the original museum structure which was built during the colonial Dutch East Indies era. The building is popularly named gedung gajah (Indonesian for elephant building) about the bronze elephant statue in front of the building, was the gift of Siamese ...
Museum Taman Prasasti (Indonesian for Museum of Memorial Stone Park or Inscription Museum [1]) is a museum located in Jakarta, Indonesia. The museum was formerly a cemetery, built by the Dutch colonial government in 1795 as a final resting place for noble Dutchmen .