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INTERESTING PLACES In 1962 the bay between Sunda Kelapa Port and Tanjung Priok, central Jakarta was built huge recreation park. This park consist of night clubs various sports, hotels, cafes and art market. The art market is an exhibition of crafts, and various shops with side ways walk cafes, and life music shows on Sunday and Saturday.

In Jakarta city there are various museums preserving the historical fact of the city and also the highlight of events during the development of the city. Beside the main national museum of Indonesia, specially dedicated museum such as to the maritime, wayang puppet, history of Jakarta and others.

The Museum National is located on the side of Merdeka Square or Lapangan Merdeka and was built in 1862 at that time Dutch colonial administration realized about the great treasure of Indonesian cultural heritages and long history of Indonesia. The biggest surprised for the Western historians was the fact that historical record in Indonesia showing tremendous level of similarities with those in India.

One of spectacular Jakarta's recreation and educational place is Taman Mini Indonesia Indah. The area covers 120 hectares in east Jakarta municipality. The concept of Mini Indonesia Indah is collecting and communicating the diversity of treasures of Indonesia. During the construction of this park Indonesia was still consisting of 27 provinces, so it was supposed to represent at least 27 highlight of Indonesian culture,

Taman Ismail Marzuki is Jakarta's showcase in culturalperformances. As it is well known Java island including west Java which is called Sunda had strongly influenced by the Hindu tradition in the past. The Hndu tradition, especially initiated by the palaces, were various entertainments,

When Java's history was disclosed starting 8th century West Java or more popular known as the land of Pasundan or Sunda in short had started also come to light. During the reign of Javanese king from both Cailendra dynasty who built Borobudur, and Sanjaya who built Prambanan temple, on west Java as the king of Galuh in 732 was also mentioned His Majesty king

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