Tanah Abang

The western half of Sudirman Central Business District is located in Tanah Abang Subdistrict, Central Jakarta.

Tanah Abang (English language : The Red Land) is a subdistrict of Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The subdistrict hosts the biggest textile market in Southeast Asia, Tanah Abang Market. Tanah Abang subdistrict is also the location of Bung Karno Stadium (in Kelurahan Gelora) and the western half of the Sudirman Central Business District.

Oil painting depicting the tomb of Heinrich Kuhl and Johan Coenraad van Hassel. The monument was designed by the painter / architect Antoine Payen (1792-1853). Kuhl (1796-1821) and Coenraad van Hasselt (1797-1823) were members of the Committee on Physics in the Netherlands Indies. The monument stands on the famous Tanah Abang cemetery of the former Batavia.

Tanah Abang is also the name of two historic roads located in Kelurahan South Petojo, Gambir Subdistrict. One of these roads, Tanah Abang 1, is known as the location of a former Dutch Cemetery, now a museum called Museum Taman Prasasti. The cemetery is the burial place of Olivia Mariamne Devenish, Eurasian wife of Stamford Raffles.[1]

The Textile Museum, generally known to be located in Tanah Abang Subdistrict, is actually located in West Jakarta (Kelurahan Kota Bambu Selatan, Palmerah Subdistrict). The museum is identified with Tanah Abang Subdistrict because it is located close to the boundary of the two subdistricts.

Tanah Abang market

A view of Tanah Abang[2] Subdistrict centered on the Kebon Melati reservoir. The constructed high rise is the Grand Indonesia Hotel. The large green building in the distance is Tanah Abang market.

Tanah Abang market is located in the Kelurahan Kebon Kacang. The Kelurahan is served by the Tanah Abang railway station,[3] which is located in the western border of the administrative village. The market has been known to exist since 1735.[4] Tanah Abang market is the main textile trade in Indonesia and the biggest in Southeast Asia. Before 2003, the market was divided into three areas, known as Metro Tanah Abang, Tanah Abang Lama, and Tanah Abang AURI. A small part of the market was destroyed by the fire in February 2003. Since 2003 the market has been rebuilt. Other market areas, Blok A and Blok B, were added to the area in 2005 and 2010.[5] Blok A is the biggest among others with 160,000 square meter with almost 8,000 kiosks, is visited about 80,000 buyers in busy days with transaction about Rp 500 billions ($43 millions) per day and has well known in Africa and Middle East.[6]

Kelurahan (Administrative Villages)

The subdistrict is divided into seven Kelurahan (Administrative Villages):

List of important places

References

  1. ↑ "Tanah Abang (Indonesian)". DISKOMINFO Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat. pusat.jakarta.go.id. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
  2. ↑ Tanah Abang
  3. ↑ Krismantari, Ika and Multa Fidrus. "The vulnerable miss out during exodus". The Jakarta Post. Tuesday September 7, 2010. Retrieved on September 16, 2010. "Based on The Jakarta Post’s observations at Tanah Abang train station, Central Jakarta,"
  4. ↑ http://tanahabangonline.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=71 (Indonesian)
  5. ↑ http://tanahabangreview.com/2010/09/03/sejarah-tanah-abang/
  6. ↑ "Weekly 5: The tallest, largest and longest". February 28, 2014.
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