The Palace Of Indonesia
Originated from the desire of the people of the Netherlands working in Batavia (now Jakarta) to find a resting place. Because
they assume that the city of Batavia was too hot and crowded, so they
need to find places that are cool mild air outside the town of Batavia.
The
Governor General of the Netherlands named G.W. Baron van Imhoff, were
searching it and managed to find a good place and strategically in a
village called Kampong Baroe, on 10 August 1744.
A
year later, in 1745, Governor General van Imhoff (1745-1750) ordered
the construction of the chosen a place named Buitenzorg (meaning free of
the problems/difficulties). He himself sketching
the building with architecture modeled on Blenheim Palace, residence of
the Duke of Malborough, near the town of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The
process of building it was continued by the Governor General who ruled
the then Governor General Jacob Mossel who the dinasnya 1750-1761
In
the course of its history, it had suffered heavy damage as a result of
attacks on people of Banten anti Kompeni, under the leadership of Kiai
Tapa and Ratu Waste, called War of Banten 1750-1754.
At
the time of Governor-general Willem Daendels (1808-1811), the building
was expanded with the addition of giving well into the left side of the
building as well as the right. Its building was two stories. The spacious courtyard is also adorned with bringing six pairs of spotted deer borders India and Nepal.
Later in the reign of Jendal Governor Baron van der Capellen (1817-1826), made a major change-magnitudes. A
tower in the middle of the building holding established so the more
magnificent, while the land around the castle became a botanical garden
inaugurated on May 18, 1817.
The building was again severely damaged, when the earthquake occurred on 10 October 1834.
During
the reign of Governor-general Muhammad Yacob Duijmayer van Twist
(1851-1856), the old building of the earthquake demolished altogether. Then by taking the European architecture of the Century IX, building a new one is formed. The
other change is to add the two bridges connecting the Main Building and
the building of the right wing and the left wing made of wood
arch-shaped. The new Court building is embodied
as a whole during the reign of Governor-general Charles Ferdinand Pahud
de Montager (1856-1861). And on the next
Government, precisely in 1870, the Palace of Buitenzorg was designated
as the official residence of the Governor General of the Netherlands.
The end of World War II, Japan surrendered to the Allied forces, later Indonesia declared its independence. The people's security (BKR) had occupied the Palace of Buitenzorg to hoist the flag of red and white. The
Palace of Buitenzourg whose name is now the Bogor Presidential Palace
handed back to the Government of the Republic at the end of 1949. After the independence, the Presidential Palace in Bogor began to be used by the Government of Indonesia in January 1950.
Libraries and art objects
The Presidential Palace in Bogor had a collection of as much of the fruit list 3.205 is available in the library of the Palace. It saves a lot of art objects, either in the form of paintings, sculptures, and ceramics and other art objects. Up
to now there are paintings in the Palace is 450 pieces, which the
title/name of the painting, pelukisnya, painted, available in the form
of list making it easier for anyone who wants to get information about
the paintings. So it is with the statue with a variety of raw material. In the Palace there are statues of as many as 216 pieces.
In addition to painting and sculpture, Palace of Bogor is also collecting as many as 196 pieces of ceramic. It was all stored in the Palace museum, in addition to being used as a pemajang in every room/building the Palace.
