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Medan Merdeka - central Jakarta, Indonesia

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Monument National Tower Jun 07, 2009

Tugu Monas, Monas is a brief for Monumen Nasional (National Monument), is a symbolical monument built in 1961 and finished in 1975. The height is 137-m and shaped as an ancient Hindu-Javanese belief of Lingga and Yoni as a symbol of fertility. Top of the monumen is shaped as a gold flame made of bronze and covered with gold plate.
Visitor can have a walk around the big park and also purchase the ticket to enter and climb to top of the monument. The ticket is 7000 Rp (< 1 USD) for adult and from top we can see aerial view of Jakarta.
Bottom part of the monument they have a smallmuseum with some dioramas about Indonesia's independence war.
The park is big and quite well maintained with green trees and grass field, as well as a big pond at one side of the monument. This has become a good spot for photography as when the water is clam, we can get a nice picture of the monuments and its reflection on the water.

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Tugu Monas

With the pond in front of the mo…

Surrounded by tall buildings

Monas park

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IndoMalu…

Oct 02, 2005

Jakarta… I never really liked Jakarta. I think it’s too hot, dirty, polluted and way to big for me. But I think the 9 million people who live here disagree with me (Amsterdam has 750 thousand inhabitants). Of course it’s good and interesting f…ride at Tugu Monas (the National Monument Tower ) with it’s top plated with 35 kg gold and went back to the hotel. It was a hot day, but in the night we slept very well in the air conditioned 4 stars hotel. … Feeling hot, hot, hot