Historic Places in Bogor

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.