Jakarta is now home to rapidly increasing numbers of skyscrapers. Office building projects are now dominated by over thirty stories high. Having reached its peak momentum in 1997 and suddenly collapsed due to severe economic crisis, Jakarta is in the past two years on the faster track to expand its high-rise property market, and much taller. Continue reading “A LOOK BACK AT 2012 JAKARTA ZONING DETAIL AND PLANS”
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Yosea Riyadi Permana menyajkan lanskap lokasi wisata Pasir Pawon atau lebih dikenal dengan Stone Garden dan Gua Pawon.
Tak dapat dipungkiri bahwa perkembangan dan penggunaan media sosial saat ini sangat mempengaruhi aspek apapun. Setelah beberapa waktu lalu Tebing Keraton menjadi trend di media sosial, kini giliran Pasir Pawon (sekarang lebih dikenal sebagai Stone Garden atauTaman Batu) yang menjadi primadona. Kebiasaan user media sosial seperti Facebook, Twitter, Instagram dan Path yang mengupload mengenai foto-foto dan informasi mengenai lokasi ini membuat banyak orang berbondong-bondong ke Stone Garden, entah itu untuk mencari tahu mengenai sejarah maupun hanya sekedar berfoto saja. Media sosial juga yang membantu saya untuk bisa hadir ke tempat ini.
Tujuh bulan sudah sejak Agustus 2014 Stone Garden di serbu oleh para wisatawan. Sebelumnya lokasi ini hanyalah sebuah dataran tinggi gunung karst yang berada diantara formasi gunung-gunung karst lainnya di daerah Citatah, Padalarang. Susunan batu yang membentuk formasi unik di Stone Garden lah yang menjadi daya tarik bagi wisatawan untuk datang kemari. Menurut warga sekitar, beberapa bulan sebelum lokasi ini menjadi primadona hampir tak ada orang yang datang ke Stone Garden, hanya beberapa arkeolog yang sudah sejak tahun 1999 lah yang datang untuk meneliti lokasi ini. Di lokasi ini juga terdapat situs lain, Gua Pawon. Gua yang menjadi situs arkeologi pra-sejarah ini berada tepat dibawah Stone Garden. Continue reading “MENAPAKI JEJAK PURBAKALA BANDUNG”
Trekking on East Asia’s prehistoric humans site, unremitting wind whispers an exclamation of silence at Zhou Kou Dian, 50 kilometers southwest of Beijing, China. Continue reading Dawn at silent hills
Chinese ancestral temples are found scattered across the old parts of George Town. It is note-worthy that not only the municipality protects these buildings for its historical value, the Malaysian of Chinese descents also care for each of their memorial center, keeping the tradition of paying homage to the past generations. Continue reading Remember ancestors
For generations the locals named it Chicken Bone Hill or Dragon Bone Hill until Swedish archeologist Johann Gunnar Andersson discovered circa 1920s that the vast hilly terrains stored valuable evolutionary tracks dating back to Pleistocene era. Continue reading Peking Man Site
Fire gutted the rear building of Jin De Yuan Temple, Glodok, at 4AM, when the people living in the Chinatown were asleep. The area suffered blackout to prevent electricity catastrophe due to the electrical transformer mounted on a pole located just a few meters away from the blaze. The main buildings, fortunately, remained intact. Jin De Yuan is the oldest temple in Jakarta, a historical building in Chinatown, and a major part of history surrounding the 17th century Chinese overseas settlers in the then Dutch East Indies. For its rich history, the temple has always been a major place of interest in the eyes of both domestic and foreign tourists visiting the Big Durian. Continue reading “FIRE IN JIN DE YUAN TEMPLE”
Somewhere in the coastal line of West Java facing Indian Ocean lays a road built by a private corporation, and was used to serve mining activities many years ago. The place, holding abundant reserves of iron ore, was fought by many since 1980s, and had seen multiple times of changes in ownership as well as exploration permit. This stretch of road marked the once hectic exploitation out of massive investment. Continue reading “THE COASTAL LINE FACING INDIAN OCEAN”
Before there is the monolithic Marina Bay Sands or the hustle of Formula One night race, the city state of Singapore was not soring to the eye or too choking as it is now. Then, the city was the center of attention largely for its durian-shaped theater on the bay “Esplanade”, opened in 2002. Continue reading Singapore some time ago
Shoalwater Islands Marine Park is one of the most protected natural habitats in Australia classified as Class A Reserves. The status gives protection for the surface and the submerged areas, covering over 6000 hectares, for the sake of biological diversity in the marine park. Continue reading Shoalwater Islands Marine Park
Musi River is indispensable to the history of civilisation in the region, and for hundreds of years developing into what is now called Palembang, the capital of South Sumatra province. It is vital in building trades with Asian traders and voyagers coming from as far as Middle East. Continue reading The makeover of an icon
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