Traveling Sehari

Sejarah Kota Tua Jakarta Kota Tua Jakarta Saya sering mendengar wisata Old Batavia-nya Jakarta. Tetapi, terkadang ada saja halangan untuk datang ke Kota Tua yang memang sekarang menjadi tempat bersejarah yang semakin banyak dikunjungi . Yang menarik bagi saya adalah, Kota Tua Jakarta ini sangat khas dengan gaya bangunan dan arsitektur gaya Belanda Eropa. Jadi, sebenarnya inilah yang menjadi alasan pertama akhirnya saya mnyempatkan diri untuk datang ke Kota Tua. Tetapi, sejarah di balik Kota Tua Jakarta ini juga penting untuk kita ketahui, yaitu tentang asal mula berdirinya Kota Tua ini. Figur Fatahillah mempunyai peran penting dalam berdirinya kota yang dulu dinamakan Jayakarta. Penamaan kota Jayakarta dibuat, setelah beliau yang dikirim oleh Kerajaan Demak menyerang Pelabuhan Sunda Kelapa di Kerajaan Hindu Padjajaran pada tahun 1526. Hanya saja, menurut sumber yang saya baca, pada tahun 1619 VOC (Verenigde Oostindinshe Compagnie), yang merupakan perusahaan dagang Hindia Tim...

When I saw the name " Museum Wayang (Puppets Museum)," my mind immediately turned to the land of Sunda and Java. There must had been a lot of puppets that I already knew inside it. And, they were not far from puppets around those two lands; Wayang golek and Wayang kulit characters, like Cepot, Bima or arjuna which I have known since my childhood. But, was it wrong for me to reminisce about these puppets? Finally I entered it by paying 5 thousand / person. Once, inside the ground floor, the puppets seen are those I knew, as I mentioned earlier. On this floor,  it was dominated by puppets in Sunda and Java. But, once I was heading to the center of the museum, there were many puppets scattered in the cities of Sundanese and Javanese lands as well, not only in Bandung or Yogyakarta that I thought before. There were many cities scattered in various islands in Indonesia which apparently had their own puppet characters. The characters of each puppet were also diverse; th...